Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This question is for the Taoiseach. As part of the nation's welcome efforts to accommodate Ukrainian refugees running for their lives, in an unprecedented development, on Sligo County Council-owned lands, the OPW and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth have invoked emergency planning regulations to erect 24 very fine modular homes exclusively for Ukrainian refugees. Some of the over 1,500 families on the Sligo housing list, 2,400 on the Donegal housing list and 700 on the Leitrim housing list, all within my constituency, none of whom have a home, have told me they are beginning to wonder where they come in the pecking order as Irish citizens when it comes to Government action. They have asked me to ask the Taoiseach why emergency planning has not been invoked to provide them with modular homes. Many of them have been on the housing list for over a decade.

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