Government leaders have formed a special high-powered committee to handle the national response to the devastating Ukrainian war refugees crisis.
They will have access to a special fund of €3billion for next year, up from an agreed figure of €2.5billion just last week.
Other measures decided on at Cabinet yesterday afternoon included the housing of refugees in college dorms when the students have gone home for the summer – this could add another 6,000 beds to the accommodation tally – and the speeding up of the conversion of vacant social houses, also known as “voids”, into refugee housing, delivering up to another 2,500 more beds.
