Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees will have to sleep on camp beds in community and sports halls for Easter.
And preparations are also in place for the new arrivals to live in tents on army barracks grounds from next Monday, April 18th.
Government ministers were told on Wednesday that this is because short term contracts with hotels and B&Bs have expired as the hospitality businesses want to reopen for Easter.
It has left the Government clambering to find places to host the mainly women and children fleeing the war zone in Ukraine, with an average of 500 arriving here every day seeking help.
An update to ministers at the weekly Cabinet meeting from the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, revealed that 95% of all Ukrainian refugees arriving from now on will have to be put into emergency accommodation.
The emergency living arrangements will see the refugees given camp beds in places like community halls and sports halls.
The Defence Forces’ will be able to provide military dormitory style beds and tents at their Granegorman facility from next Monday.
The spare capacity in hotels and B&Bs the Government was sourcing is all used up and the number of beds being offered up by the public is also drying up.
It is now estimated that as many as 50% of the 22,000 rooms offered by members of the public through the Irish Red Cross are either unsuitable, people have changed their minds or they can’t be contacted to arrange an inspection.
It is understood that the numbers hosted by the Government in hotels and B&Bs has almost maxed-out at 13,000.
The numbers in private accommodation is still being organised by the Irish Red Cross and the Department of Integration.
Meanwhile the numbers of Ukrainians coming into the country looking for sanctuary continues at a steady flow, with the latest Government estimates predicting that between 26,000 and 32,000 are expected here through the weekend.
The latest estimate for the end of April is that we will have welcomed 36,000 traumatised refugees from Ukraine.
As of yesterday 23,000 Ukrainian refugees had arrived here after their homes were destroyed by Russian forces as part of the barbaric invasion of their homeland.
A spokesman for the Government last night indicated that the Government’s accommodation provision is at breaking point, saying there was a “high risk” we will run out of accommodation.
Speaking on behalf of the Taoiseach, he said: “Cabinet heard that the humanitarian and security situation in Ukraine really is very grave, especially those areas that continue to remain under consistent Russian attack.
“It is beyond reasonable doubt that war crimes have been committed by the Russian forces.”
The spokesman added: “there continues to be a high risk of shortages of emergency and short term accommodation in the medium term.”
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