The doubling of the cost of modular homes for Ukrainians is another example of the Government's incompetence and waste of public money. The Taoiseach will remember that when this news first broke, all of those in government feigned shock. How could this have happened, they asked. However, yesterday, at the Committee of Public Accounts, we got the answer to that as the head of the Office of Public Works stated clearly that it had warned the Government that the sites selected for these modular homes were not suitable and the servicing of these sites would add an extra €291,000 to the cost of each unit. We now know that not alone is the Government happy to waste the public's money, but it is happy to ignore warnings that it is wasting the public's money and just push ahead. The catalogue of waste sends the signal that the Government is there for the taking and, of course, when a Government is there for the taking, it is the taxpayer who is taken for a ride. Can the Taoiseach explain why the Government ignored the warnings it was given, stood back and allowed the cost of these modular homes to double?

I do not accept that characterisation at all. Of course, it is hard to cost the locations that Deputy McDonald would secure for migrant accommodation because she will not tell us where they are. She keeps telling us where she is against and what she is against when it comes to the migration debate, but she has yet to tell us where she believes any site should be located. I look forward to her telling us that very soon.

Deputy McDonald is right that the costs were higher for the Ukrainian modular homes, and that is true, but it is also important to remember the context. We were in an emergency. People were fleeing Ukraine. The country was at war and is at war, and people were fleeing with their children.

It is two years on.

We were looking to provide them with accommodation. We were working in real-time, in an absolute emergency, to provide accommodation to tens of thousands of Ukrainians. There were no ideal sites or ideal situations at all. We also know, because the Comptroller and Auditor General quotes this, although Deputy McDonald left it out, that the overall cost of the modular project is the equivalent of five years of hiring private sector rooms in hotels, which is not something we want to do. This is an investment that we will have, rather than wasting money on private sector hotel rooms.