Ireland will lower the amount of money given for welfare and only provide temporary housing for 90 days to new people coming from Ukraine.
The cost per week will go down to €38. 80 (£34) for Ukrainian people staying in state accommodation, from the current rate of €220 (£190) per week.
They will go back to getting more money for welfare when they leave these centers.
Parents of children who live in state accommodation will still get the full €140 (£120) child benefit payment every month.
The changes will be made at the beginning of next year. We will try harder to help Ukrainian people in the Republic find jobs.
People in Ukraine who receive welfare will be interviewed to see if there are jobs that they can do.
Ukrainian children can still go to local schools like before. There won’t be any secret schools in the new housing centers.
Opposition politicians criticized the idea of cutting welfare benefits.
Labour politician Ged Nash said the government did not make enough accommodation for refugees.
Richard Boyd Barrett, a member of People Before Profit, said the decision was a way to avoid taking responsibility for not fixing the housing crisis.
John Lannon, the leader of a charity that helps migrants called Doras, thinks that if Ukrainian refugees are only allowed to stay in a place for 90 days, it will make more people homeless.
He said on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that it will make people very vulnerable and might make women, children, and men homeless.
A study of migration numbers from November found that almost 68,000 people came to Ireland from Ukraine between March and December 2022 under a rule from the EU.
As of December 2022, 87% of people given temporary protection were still living in the country.
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Ireland lowers assistance payments to refugees from Ukraine
