Sir, – The headline is nothing less than extraordinary ("Fears grow in Government about Irish capacity to house Ukrainian refugees", News, April 11th).
Have we not been convulsed this past while by the inability of that same Government to oversee the provision of sufficient housing to meet the needs of the native population, let alone anyone else?
Or could it be the case that the capacity to house all here was possible all along and this fact is only allowed to be glimpsed now by the hasty reactions of some politicians here –primarily in search of kudos, one fears – to the plight of Europeans caught up in a war?
Homelessness here was never excusable; after this episode, it is now repugnant. – Yours, etc,
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JIM O’SULLIVAN,
Rathedmond,
Sligo.