SDLP Ballyarnett councillor Rory Farrell
The New Decade, New Approach deal to restore Stormont in January stated that the Executive would bring forward proposals for the expansion of Magee to 10,000 students.
A motion to Council in February welcomed this commitment and called on the Executive to liaise with Ulster University and the Irish and British governments to deliver expansion plans.
Council subsequently wrote to the first ministers requesting “consideration in this important matter”.
Addressing last week’s Full Council meeting, the Ballyarnett representative said:
“We have written to the first ministers on three occasions in the last eight months. We’ve had no feedback, we’ve had no response.
“We haven’t even had an acknowledgement.
“In the interests of full disclosure, I intend to raise this at every single Full Council meeting until we get a response, and until we get a satisfactory response.
“And by satisfactory I mean concrete proposals and cast-iron commitments regarding the expansion of Magee.
“How it will be expanded.
“The courses that the extra six thousand students will be doing. Plans around the physical expansion of the campus.
“A timeline for expansion and how the expansion will be financed,” added Councillor Farrell.
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