Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I absolutely agree. I have always been upfront in terms of the challenge that the dual crises of Ukrainian and wider migration poses. It is a challenge for the State. Indeed, it is a challenge for all states right now because it puts extra pressure on resources. The Deputy spoke about family resource centres and Tusla, through my Department, has been given an additional allocation to support the response to Ukraine. That can be filtered down to Tusla's front-line services, including family resource centres.

I believe there is good intergovernmental co-operation. The Cabinet committee on Ukraine meets regularly and looks at these various issues. The Department of Education has done very good mapping to identify areas where there is capacity in schools and areas where there is not. Of course, when we are looking for accommodation it is not always possible to mirror that because if there is no hotel accommodation in an area where there is capacity, we are not able to immediately respond to that. We work as closely as we can with the Department of Education to try to align where we are locating Ukrainians with available capacity.

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