Overview
- The Cabinet Committee on Justice, which agreed the move Monday, set a six‑month phaseout from August with at least three months' notice for residents.
- The change applies to people who arrived before March 2024 with exemptions for highly vulnerable people, and the State will still offer 30 days of arrival accommodation.
- Ministers will wind down the €600 monthly host payment this year, with a possible cut to €400 in September, and end the scheme by next March for about 42,000 hosted people.
- Officials say there will be no cliff edge for current residents, and properties now under contract are due to return to tourism or private renting.
- Ireland will work with the EU on a voluntary return and reintegration program likely to start in March 2027 after a pilot this year, as more than 125,700 Ukrainians have arrived since 2022 and about 19,200 remain in State-contracted accommodation.