Stricter rules for new arrivals from Ukraine have been agreed by Cabinet.
State accommodation will be offered for the first 90 days only.
In that time, a reduced welfare payment will be made of €38.80 cents per week, that’s down from €220.
It will revert to the higher rate when people leave state accommodation.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar defended the new measures in the Dáil this afternoon:
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald says there doesn’t appear to be an accommodation plan for people arriving here from Ukraine:
