Replying To Pikeman96:  "I'm not making any excuse. I simply asked how could any government have planned ahead for an unexpected influx of 80,000 people due to a war thousands of miles away. You haven't answered.

But let's look at the figures in a different way -

Before the first Ukranian arrived, there were 10,000 homeless. Now there are 17,000. That's an increase of 7,000.

Since then, probably somewhere around 100,000 people have needed accommodation - more than 80,000 Ukranians, plus whatever number arrived from other countries, plus whatever number of native Irish people applied for it.

If the rise in homelessness figures is 7,000 then that means that approx. 93,000 people have been accommodated.

Is is not a good result to have been able to accommodate 93% of people who've needed it, particularly when 80,000 of them were never expected in the first place?"