Minister mulling plan for payments to Ukrainian refugees after they return home

Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan at Fianna Fáil’s annual Sean Lemass Commemoration on Sunday, May 10 2026. At the graveside of the former Taoiseach in Deansgrange Cemetery, Dun Laoghaire. (Bairbre Holmes/PA)

The Justice Minister has said he is considering a scheme which would offer payments to Ukrainian refugees who return to their home country.

Jim O’Callaghan was responding to a report in The Sunday Times which said Ukrainians who fled to Ireland because of the war would receive the money after they have arrived back in Ukraine.