Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that. Could the Minister raise a point for me? I am concerned. I understand why this is happening, I understand the points she is making, I support what the Government is doing and I recognise that the difficulties in creating accommodations for 70,000 people in such a short space of time are phenomenal. Yet, that does not get away from the fact that mothers with young children will not have accommodation and may very well be homeless.

I just want to make this point. I appreciate that the Minister is identifying the appropriate Minister who will be dealing with this. However, I want to put on record my concern about that, notwithstanding all the things we are doing. One way of dealing with this might be to look at extending that 90-day period if somebody has tried to find appropriate accommodation and cannot find it. The key point for families - I am specifically speaking about Ukrainian families - who have to move from A to B to C for whatever reason, is the availability of childcare, primary school places, GPs and other services. They are the key points.

I have one last question. I presume that the Government is consulting with many of the NGOs that work with refugees about what views they have on this.