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

We are not looking to impose a looming deadline if these families are looking to make a private arrangement in this location. I hope I have addressed this location but we can step back. We contracted a significant volume of accommodation around the country to meet the emergency needs of Ukrainians. Approximately 67,000 Ukrainians lived in State-owned accommodation at one stage. This has decreased very significantly. We are going to have to consolidate that range of accommodation where there are contractual issues but we are also going to have to consolidate it in terms of scale because we have empty beds and I do not think anybody would agree that the State should be paying for empty beds. That consolidation will require moves and some of them will be hard. This is something I will have to recognise in terms of the €2 billion put aside for refugee accommodation next year. This is absolutely right but I do not think anyone here will agree that we would should pay for empty beds in hotels or anything like that, nor should we withhold beds from the tourism sector. I am trying to get the balance right between-----

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