Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-03-22
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

We have set aside funding for the Covid-19 contingency. The pandemic is not over yet, so we may need that money for Covid-19. We are not yet in a position to dedicate that to this response. We need also to bear in mind that was to be a one-off spend for this year. I expect whatever we will have to do to help Ukrainians will be a recurring spend for a number of years because tens of thousands of Ukrainians will be with us for a long time, if not indefinitely. We will have to do a budget assessment of that, which is under way.

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Sitting date: 2022-03-22