Taoiseach: 'Probability'  that Ukrainian refugees will be housed in tents in short term

Diana Petrovsky, 5, arrives in Cork on a bus full of refugees fleeing Ukraine. Picture: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

Micheál Martin said the war on Ukraine has generated an extraordinary response from the Irish people.

Irish people and people in wider Europe are shocked at the inhumanity of the war and at the pictures "we're witnessing that we thought we would never witness again in Europe".