Pagamento per accomodanti rifugiati ucraine che sono stati tagliati
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/02/22/payment-for-accommodating-ukraine-refugees-set-to-be-cut/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=HP-SubDesc
di Revolution_2432
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Rate is only being cut from 800 per month to 600. With the scheme set will be extended.
Was this also tax free for taking people on or am I wrong?
What’s the total cost to the exchequer of keeping Ukrainians fleeing war in a hotel v paying people to give their spare room to a Ukrainian refugee? Maybe we should be encouraging the latter more?
What a joke, the whole thing should be scrapped, they should then be means tested for HAP or rent allowance instead if they qualify!
This reduces the amount of digs available. There are two extremes, a mother with young kids whose husband is fighting in the army and their home was destroyed then a young couple with no kids and an apartment rented out back home. These are very different scenarios but the government does not differentiate.
When I was going to college I couldn’t afford Dublin, twenty years ago. I still had to work weekends. I wonder how many Irish kids are missing the opportunity to go to college due to the crazy rental market.
This bizarre funding of accomodation (the temporary protection plan amounted to allowing free movement, nothing more) has wasted money that Ukraine desperately needs.
The government should reallocate this money to the €20 billion European arms package for Ukraine, to take the burden off poorer countries like Poland and Latvia.
Let’s see how low I will be downvoted.
We have 80k Ukrainian war refugees. Most of them don’t even have verified status, so we also have Russians with bought Ukrainian passports.
Most of the Ukrainian refugees are families or women with children. Only 29k refugees are living in state supported accomodations.
I don’t think they are responsible for the current state of the housing crisis – even if we count just 2 people per accomodation, that’s still only 15k accomodations.
However our state spends around 8 thousand euros per bed per month in hotels (based on Department of Integration data).
In comparison – 4 people, 2 bedroom house from Steeltech sheds costs 40k + concrete plate and utilities connection. So instead of killing our hospitality, the state could just purchase those small units, which are good for at least 2 decades and employ people in those projects.