A record number of over 21,800 dwellings are currently being used to accommodate Ukrainian refugees under the Accommodation Recognition Payment (ARP) scheme

Some of the centres had not attained the appropriate An Garda Síochána vetting.

Mr Donnelly said that what had happened in Roscrea “should not have happened” and must have been very traumatic for the children and families being brought into what was “essentially their refuge, their new home.”