Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Ukrainian Crisis: Discussion

Mr. Liam O'Dwyer:

We have distributed quite a bit so far. We intend to have distributed €14 million by the end of June. We have thought about deliberately holding back maybe €10 million simply in the hope that there is a solution - a peace. At that stage, those moneys can be used to enable people's return, for livelihoods, for rebuilding, etc. That is the plan. Moneys are still coming in all the time. While we are not out there as forcefully as we could be for obvious reasons, we are still taking in quite an amount of money and we are allocating it back out again as quickly as we can. We are caught at times in something of a strange position. We want to move the money out but, at the same time, we are being careful in order that, at a later stage, we will have moneys to move at the appropriate time.