We are heartbroken at the horrific scenes of Ukrainian people, mainly women and children, fleeing for their lives. We are witnessing the largest displacement of people in Europe since the Second World War. To stop this humanitarian disaster, we have to stop the war. Members of the Government have speculated that Ireland might be required to accommodate up to 100,000 refugees. This is a huge scale of people seeking refuge and the question arises as to how a system that is already stretched can accommodate a challenge like this. Where will these refugees live and what is the accommodation plan?

First, I want to say in passing that I think we need to reflect on what we just did, in such an enclosed environment and with so many people, in terms of a roll-call vote. It is farcical in itself but makes no sense at all from a Covid perspective. Covid has not gone away. I just have to say that.

Deputies, please.

It is something we should reflect on. I just had to get it off my chest because I found it incredible what we did, as a collective group in an enclosed space, when we have technology available to vote and enable a vote to be done. We really should cop on a small bit.

In regard to the biggest humanitarian crisis we have seen since the Second World War because of the war on Ukraine, every effort will be made by the Government to co-ordinate and do what we can. There are no immediate answers, but what it will mean is that some of the norms that would characterise business as usual will have to be put to one side in terms of enabling facilities and allowing work to be done to create accommodation. We no longer have the luxury of saying we cannot have this development over here or that development over there. The crisis is going to be so big, in my view, that we will have to pull out all the stops as quickly as we can, as a society and as a Government, to do what we need to do.