Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate where the Deputy is coming from, but I make the point that, as I said, the hotels, the guest houses and all those facilities are essential. You cannot put hundreds or thousands of people into accommodation without resourcing that. We are very appreciative of the voluntary pledges that came in. More work is needed in the first instance to go through those pledges as quickly as we possibly can to identify what is suitable to accommodate Ukrainian refugees.

I can talk at great length with the Deputy about his experiences and the people to whom he has spoken. I believe that the people who drove to the airport did that out of the goodness of their heart. I have no doubt about that and they are anxious to help in the first instance.

We have to make it very clear that the reason all of this is being done is to deny Putin any sense that the West is under pressure. Unfortunately, in modern wars the likes of Putin count on hybrid warfare and on creating as much pressure through migration as they possibly can.

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