Will the Tánaiste confirm whether the reported payments to Ukrainian refugees for vehicle repairs, including sums ranging from €400 to €7,000, are being sourced from the exceptional needs payments of the Department of Social Welfare or is this coming from the humanitarian funding, similar to the humanitarian funding of €1 million per month for cats and dogs from Ukraine that previous Governments found?

Does the Tánaiste believe that this expenditure is good value for money, especially in light of challenges to Irish citizens? Will he clarify whether those payments are also available to IPAS refugees? We know that 800,000 Irish citizens have left these shores since 2008 to live in countries such as Australia and Canada. I am not aware of any other government in the world that is repairing people's cars, putting new tyres on them and putting engines in their cars. Can we have some clarification on this?

I hope when we do get the clarification that the Deputy will come back. Let me be clear: we are helping people from Ukraine who fled a war.

By repairing their cars?

The Deputy asked a question and I am going to answer. We should be not give a widespread sense that people from Ukraine are getting new cars, new tyres and repairs----

But they are.

I am sorry; I know the Deputy is new to the House but we have rules. He speaks and then I speak, so let me do so. I will get him more information regarding any such payments. People fled here from very difficult situations and I am proud of the level of support we provide them. I do not want to give a sense to people watching that there are widespread repairs of people's cars going on. Let us have a sense of perspective about this. The people who I know from Ukraine who have come here are making a bloody great contribution to the economy. Their kids are making a great contribution in our schools and the people are working hard and they are very welcome here. They are Europeans and we look forward to welcoming them into the European Union very shortly.

Deputy O'Flynn should not shake his head. He should dog-whistle somewhere else. He knows what he was doing.

Shame on the Deputy. He was dog-whistling.

Not at all. I am a truth-teller. I am just telling the truth. The Tánaiste does not like it------