Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

Yes. They are not being accommodated by the State directly. They may have had connections in Ireland beforehand or they may have gone into privately pledged accommodation arrangements. For example, Facebook organisations and a number of charities ran their own pledged programmes outside of the Red Cross process. We are aware of a considerable volume of those. There are 5,900 applicants receiving funding under the recognition payment scheme, which offers €800 per month to people hosting beneficiaries of temporary protection, and there are approximately 12,800 Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection associated with it. If 6,500 of those have come through the Red Cross process, it suggests that there are a further 6,000 at least who are in some form of accommodation that was pledged outside that process.