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

When we are accommodating 84,000 people, I do not believe that is an indication of failure. It is an indication of a Government and country stepping up to meet the needs of an exceptional humanitarian crisis.

Modular accommodation is a brand-new form of housing. We did not have it before that announcement. No one had ever seen such a unit and none had even been built. We designed it in conjunction with the OPW, which led on the design and the manufacture. In the middle of next month, we will see the first 64 units occupied and spread throughout the country at other sites where we are working. They will be brought online across the summer. We now have a brand-new type of accommodation that delivers small but good-quality accommodation. I hope the pilot that has been run in response to the needs of Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection can now also be used by local authorities and approved housing bodies throughout the country to address the wider housing challenges, which we all know we face, having seen the lead from the development of this new accommodation type.

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