Jim O'Callaghan
speaker
581 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Jim O'Callaghan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's not fully accurate, but certainly the response of Ireland to the war in Ukraine was extremely generous.
And what the Taoiseach said was absolutely correct.
Approximately 113,000 people from Ukraine came to Ireland, applied for and were granted temporary protection.
There's around 84,000 left at present.
Ireland was more generous than any other European country when it came to accommodation.
The obligation under the Temporary Protection Directive was that you have to provide access to accommodation.
We went further and we provided accommodation to people.
And I suppose what we're doing now is, and a lot of the Ukrainians...
you know, have moved out of state accommodation and they've got their own accommodation and the accommodation recognition payment has helped with that.
But at present, there's around 16,500 people who are still in state accommodation, which is provided free.
Many of them are working.
You know, myself and Colin Brophy have worked through this and we think it is more appropriate that we move away from state provided accommodation and people who are working should make a contribution.
But that decision is...
is going to cabinet, a proposal is going to cabinet on Tuesday week and a decision will be made.
I was in the Dáil this morning answering questions on this very issue, temporary protection, and I emphasised, and I think it's important we remember, the reason for temporary protection is because of Russia's illegal and unlawful invasion.
And that needs to stop.
So a lot of measures were put in place.
But in Europe, there are discussions about temporary protection.
Temporary protection is never envisaged to last forever.
The reason it's called temporary protection is because it is temporary.
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