Dozens of hotels currently housing Ukrainians could return to public use during the summer months, the Taoiseach has indicated.
Up to 68 hotel contracts will not be renewed by the Department of Integration in the coming months.
Speaking at the launch of the Fine Gael manifestos for the local and European Parliament elections, Taoiseach Simon Harris said the number of Ukrainians in State accommodation has fallen significantly.
He described this as quite exciting because it means that towns and villages might get their hotel back.
From talking to people across the country in recent weeks, Mr Harris said, they wanted help but they also wanted to see a bit of common sense and "cop on" when it comes to immigration policy.
He confirmed that charities would no longer be funded to provide tents to asylum seekers once more tented accommodation is available on State lands in the next few weeks.
Fine Gael is running 349 candidates in the local elections and five in the European elections.
The Taoiseach urged all candidates to leave everything on the field, adding that the party must stop looking down at their shoes and instead look up and canvass more and more housing estates.
He pledged too that the Government would take more action to clamp down on the bulk buying of homes by investor funds and there was a commitment to improve disability services.
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe said the Government will look at different options in relation to the closure of certain accommodation centres for Ukrainian refugees.
"We have said we will look at a number of different options in relation to that accommodation. Some of the accommodation will need to be kept, some of it will need to be repurposed, and some of it will be moved back to the purpose for which it originally was intended, in some cases, that will be tourism.
"So, I think what happens to each piece of accommodation will be done on a case-by-case basis, but we are seeing overall at the moment ... the number of people who are coming to Ukraine begin to diminish, and we are beginning to see many Ukrainians go back home."
Speaking on RTÉ's Drivetime, Mr Donohoe said the Government will offer help to people who need to find alternative accommodation.
The example of the people in Drumshanbo in Co Leitrim was highlighted.
"They have been in a hotel, they have been in a hotel that we have been paying for the use of on behalf of the State for one to two years and as numbers begin to fall, I think it is understandable that those who own that hotel may want to make different use of it," the minister said.
