Garret Ahearn (Fine Gael)
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I thank the Cathaoirleach. Ms Gerasko is very welcome to the new committee on foreign affairs. I thank her for that work she has done in recent years in Ireland in supporting those Ukrainian citizens who are temporarily here to help them to make lives of their own. Does she know how many Ukrainian citizens are here at present? From my experience of speaking with them, especially mothers of children, they have really set up a life for themselves here, particularly the children. We get a sense that, not for a vast majority but certainly for a proportion of them, it has been so long that they have almost started new lives here. They and their kids are happy here. The children are getting an education and they want to continue this. It is it Ms Gerasko's view that a lot of Ukrainian families want to remain?