Jim O'Callaghan
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Then we pay the money to repatriate them back to the Ukraine.
And then they come back to Ireland to claim international protection.
That's not feasible.
That's not going to happen.
What we're going to try and deal with is like, as I say, we've 83, 84,000 people here.
Some of them will want to go back home.
A good few have gone back home.
Some of them won't have the resources to go back home.
I think we should be in a position to help them.
And then there's a third group
some will want to stay and we're just going to have to work through that.
There was no tension.
We had a very good sub-committee meeting at the Cabinet a couple of weeks ago.
Myself and Colin Brophy are absolutely singing off the same hymn sheet on this issue.
We're going to bring it to Cabinet.
Like actually, there's a very mundane reason as to why it's not going this week and it's going next week but I won't go into it.
Yes, very much so, yeah.
Given the comments that he made previously.
Isn't 2020, like, I was looking today because I was answering questions, like, back in 2022, I was looking at Mary Lou welcoming Ukrainians, welcoming the use of modular homes.
Like, obviously, 2022...