Written answers
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Social Welfare Payments
Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial assistance will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who will be accommodating six Ukrainian refugees three adults and three children in their home in the coming days given the unexpected challenges they may encounter. [15117/22]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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On 4 March 2022, the Council of the European Union unanimously adopted the implementing decision regarding the Temporary Protection Directive, due to the mass influx of persons fleeing Ukraine as a consequence of the war.
This means that persons to whom the Directive applies will be able to work in Ireland and to access social services and the full range of social welfare supports including supplementary welfare allowance.
People who volunteer to provide accommodation to people arriving from Ukraine are doing so on a voluntary and altruistic basis.
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