The Minister for Justice and Migration Jim O’Callaghan will seek Government approval to change how people from Ukraine are accommodated in Ireland.<\/p>\n
The minister is preparing timelines for the transition from Temporary Protection for Ukrainian citizens currently residing in Ireland.<\/p>\n
Already the Government has signalled that it will withdraw tourist and commercial accommodation housing up to 16,000 Ukrainians.<\/p>\n
It was agreed at a Cabinet sub-committee recently to withdraw State-contracted commercial accommodation to pre-March 2024 residents, except for those highly vulnerable.<\/p>\n
The process is expected to begin in August on a phased basis over a six-month period.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian people will be afforded a minimum of three months’ notice of this change.<\/p>\n
The properties will be returned to tourism and potentially the private rental sector.<\/p>\n
It is also likely that the \u20ac600 Accommodation Recognition Payment Scheme will be wound down in the last four months of this year and end next March.<\/p>\n
A reduction to \u20ac400 might be introduced in September, and this will affect around 42,000 people in hosted accommodation.<\/p>\n
Autism Protocol<\/p>\n
The Minister for Children, Disability and Equality Norma Foley and Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill are bringing a memo to Cabinet on the new autism assessment process for children and adults.<\/p>\n
The Autism Protocol has been developed in consultation with autistic people, clinicians and Health Service Executive (HSE) staff in disability, primary care and mental health services.<\/p>\n
It is seeking to provide, for the first time, a standardised autism assessment for children and adults right across the HSE and the agencies that it funds.<\/p>\n
The change would enable people to get an autism diagnosis and access to services, without an Assessment of Need.<\/p>\n
The waiting time for these assessments is currently around two years.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a new ten-year strategy to reduce rates of suicide and self-harm will go before the Government.<\/p>\n
It will look at ways of reducing societal risk factors around self-harm and suicide such as poverty, addiction and online harm.<\/p>\n
The strategy aims to expand supports for people in distress in community settings.<\/p>\n
This includes dedicated mental health nursing teams in emergency departments.<\/p>\n
There is also a stronger focus on supporting people bereaved by suicide.<\/p>\n
The implementation plan for the strategy will be published by Mental Health Minister Mary Butler in September.<\/p>\n
Financial education<\/p>\n
The T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris will update Cabinet on the National Financial Literacy Strategy which will set out more than 100 measures to deepen financial knowledge across the country.<\/p>\n
A review of the 2025 Action Plan shows that two million people were reached through financial education coverage across print, television and radio, and that a further 170,000 students engaged directly with financial literacy programmes.<\/p>\n
Higher Education Minister James Lawless will bring a Memorandum to Government outlining a major rebranding of Ireland\u2019s international scholarship programmes.<\/p>\n
The programme will be expanded from 60 to 100 scholarships by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n
Scholarships will be more strategically targeted at priority areas such as research excellence, critical skills, and key international partnerships.<\/p>\n
Supports will be enhanced to attract top-tier global talent, including increasing stipends to \u20ac15,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister for Justice and Migration Jim O’Callaghan will seek Government approval to change how people from Ukraine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-467063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467063","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=467063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}