Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not accept that characterisation at all. Of course, it is hard to cost the locations that Deputy McDonald would secure for migrant accommodation because she will not tell us where they are. She keeps telling us where she is against and what she is against when it comes to the migration debate, but she has yet to tell us where she believes any site should be located. I look forward to her telling us that very soon.

Deputy McDonald is right that the costs were higher for the Ukrainian modular homes, and that is true, but it is also important to remember the context. We were in an emergency. People were fleeing Ukraine. The country was at war and is at war, and people were fleeing with their children.

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