Was the government right to put no limit on the amount of Ukrainian refugees in Ireland? Read OP

Yes they are very expensive at that price I think especially if they are buying in bulk like, shouldn't that bring the price down a lot? One of the advantages of modular homes is that they cost a lot less to build

I see a lot of the advantages of using them is in the English news at the moment because they are being lobbied and I think the government has agreed. It says the heating and energy savings a few times around 55% on current builds and there are other advantages mentioned.

This is from building.co.uk

Cost model: Modular construction

"There is the potential for big cost savings using modular construction. Pure modular projects can be completed in half the time of traditional schemes once on site. Fewer packages need to be bought (usually ground works / substructure, cores, stairs, apartment modules, shell and core MEP works, builders' works, lifts and potentially balconies, roof finishes and the like, depending on the project).

As a result, prelims are much lower - usually around 12% for a 160-apartment scheme. This combination of fewer packages and simpler design also means costs are easier to predict."

18% of our hotel bed capacity, if true? Unlikely though, or it'd nearly 100% of new arrivals all being put into hotels since that article was published, and we know that's not happening. Even at 18%, it's a lot, all right, but we can cope, especially as demand for hotel beds for tourists plummets over the winter months. Ukraine's armed forces seem to be doing really well, though, so long may that continue, and they can go home soon.

Over some of the Winter, tourist towns going to be heavily impacted. And what happens in Spring and Summer? There has to be a balance. Going to remain insanely expensive here for the foreseeable future.

I also hope Ukraine prevails but realistically there will be no peace anytime soon. Things can easily get worse in the meantime. Nobody is talking to anybody, only war talk right now and doubling down.

Eh? Of course lots of people still want mini breaks throughout the year and to visit family.

Rates shot up already , 30%, and it isnt like they were cheap before (and they completely omit part of the reason why...funny that).

I agree they need to stop handing out hotel rooms and free board and food and full social welfare to able bodied young people from Ukraine. They dont need that level of support, its wasting tax payers money and driving up our cost of living.

Our young people dont get this level of support, nothing close to it, unless they go through a big ongoing drama about being homeless or disabled etc. Some of our stiudents get a small grant and then left to their own devices. Most get nothing and have to cover their entire living costs and find part time jobs to survive!

Some have and some haven't, from Kiev or western parts they could live there if they wanted to right now. Manty have moved back. Many visit for holidays.

Some of them are also wealthy, some could choose to stay and help their country but dont , such as the nurses, teachers and doctors.

We need to do means testing and reduce payments and treat them like the other asylum seekers, be fair to all.

I'm also not aware of any obligation to give them all room, board and up to 300 euro a week.

The point stands, docs and nurses should be helping their fellow citizens over there, they have a lot of folks that need care.

And they should all be means tested. Other countries are doing that.

Germany is giving them WAY less. Is Ireland much richer than Germany? Last time I checked it wass not. Ireland is giving lone parents 300 euro per week. Germany is giving them 502 euro per month. They give more forchild benefit but Ireland is still giving them up to 2x compared to Germany.

https://visitukraine.today/blog/905/germany-will-change-the-amount-of-payments-for-ukrainian-refugees-what-amount-to-expect

That's from the middle of July Mary. Out of date.

We are now at well over 55,000 Ukranian refugees and thousands that were in student accommodation have been moved to hotels by now.

It is up to you to backup your statements for once.

Your info is way out of date.

Already over 30,000 beds.

Obviously many rooms have single beds or two beds at most. Do the sums.

Don't want to interfere with said heroes rights to cheap hotels and holidays now, do you?

Do you mean how many Ukrainians have gone back to Ukraine from Europe? If you do then it is almost 7 million and it is almost 9.6 million that have left Ukraine.

There are almost 1.35 Russians that have left Russia mostly through Finnish and Estonian borders but they are crossing from Belarus and from Ukraine too.

Ireland has taken in around 57,000 Ukraine refugees so far.