Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry. My final question relates to the commentary in the report and the analysis on the cost of accommodating Ukrainian refugees. To be fair to the council, there are two things the council has pointed out. The council questions the level of refugee numbers that will come into the State, which had been estimated at an upper level of 100,000 or 80,000 this year. The council also questions the cost of that. Am I right in saying that the cost this year is estimated to be €37,000 per person and next year will be some €30,000 per person, and that this is well out of kilter with European averages?

Has IFAC been able to figure out why the cost estimates from the Department are so high? Of the €2.5 billion outlined in the stability programme update, SPU, for accommodating Ukrainian refugees this year, what would in the council's view be a more realistic range, bearing in mind that none of us know how this is going to pan out? What would help to steer us through this period?