{"id":307341,"date":"2026-02-20T04:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:03:10","slug":"sinn-fein-td-hits-out-at-state-accommodation-payment-for-ukrainian-refugees-with-good-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307341\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD hits out at state accommodation payment for Ukrainian refugees \u2018with good jobs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People wait in freezing temperatures to receive food aid distributed by the World Central Kitchen at a relief point in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2262340951.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">People wait in freezing temperatures to receive food aid distributed by the World Central Kitchen at a relief point in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Sinn F\u00e9in TD has hit out at Ukrainian people in Ireland \u201cwho have really good jobs, getting their rent paid\u201d through the Accommodation Recognition Payment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are currently 42,000 Ukrainians being hosted by Irish families or individuals who get a \u20ac600 a month payment to allow them to stay in their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People wait in freezing temperatures to receive food aid distributed by the World Central Kitchen at a relief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,25081,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-307341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-mary-regan","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}