Under the funding for people who provide accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, it has been brought to my attention in recent days that, early on, when the Government was looking for accommodation places, it was spending money fairly freely - I am referring to Athlone specifically but there are other places in my constituency - but it is like a broken-down subbie at the moment. I know of two crowds that were supplying food that are owed €2 million. This has been going on since October or November. That is disgraceful. If the Government is looking for accommodation and for people to supply accommodation, that is not in good taste. The cause of many people exiting at the moment is that the Government is not sending the payments forward. If I send these cases to the Tánaiste, will he get them dealt with straightaway?

I acknowledge there has been an issue in terms of payments and we had a Cabinet sub-committee meeting last week in respect of this issue. Measures are being taken both to deal with the immediate situation of some people needing immediate payments and to create a new model that would make for more regular payments into the future. That is the type of situation that many Deputies have come back to us on, individual cases, so it does not arise into the future. It has to be dealt with systemically and that is the approach we are taking.