Ireland over-reliant on hotels to house refugees, warns UN refugee agency

Sasha Zmiievska, 4, and Sasha Petrova both originally from Kiev but living now in Dublin. Picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos

About 64,000 asylum-seekers and refugees have arrived in Ireland so far this year.

The Government has reiterated there will not be a cap on the number of refugees or asylum-seekers who are entering the country.