Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

Disinformation was not a major issue for us in 2022 to the extent that it has become one since. Our experience in 2022 was that there was considerable community support for new Ukrainian communities or arrivals from Ukraine right across the country. We began to see resistance at a much later stage, and some of the resistance we have seen on the BOTP side materialised at a much later stage, but it is at quite a low level by comparison with the resistance we have seen on the international protection side. I would make that distinction regarding our experience of community resistance. It has been more pronounced in respect of international protection accommodation openings and probably began to materialise as a real issue for us over the course of 2023.

On the Deputy's question on specific spending on disinformation, that was not our priority in 2022, to be quite frank about it. Our priority in 2022 was to try to stay ahead of the numbers arriving each day. There were 80,000 Ukrainians by the year's end, if I remember the figure correctly. It was a considerable crisis response to an immediate challenge, and that was the focus. There has been-----