The Cabinet has signed off on a range of measures to increase the supply of accommodation for refugees.
Speaking after the meeting, Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman said that the Government was seeking to move from the emergency phase to a more medium to long-term strategy.
As part of the measures agreed, a new €50 million community fund to assist communities that have welcomed a large number of refugees will be established.
This will be administered by the Department of Community and Rural Development.
In a statement the Government said: "The Minister for Rural and Community Development and Minister for Housing will work with colleagues to develop a €50 million programme of supports to ensure that that contribution is recognised and that levels of access to public services and community centre facilities for the local community are maintained and expanded."
A call out for vacant homes has also been initiated, to be led by local authorities.
A refusals policy has been introduced, meaning people who refuse an offer of suitable accommodation will not be offered another option.
Minister O'Gorman explained that the State's obligation under the Temporary Accommodation Directive will have been fulfilled once suitable accommodation is offered.
It is understood the development is an effort to ensure refugees move out of hotels when they are offered more permanent accommodation.
The Government had also been expected to sign off on a proposal to increase the monthly payment to families who host refugees from €400 to €800.
Ministers were also expected to agree to a proposal that would see future hotel contract for refugees to exclude the provision of free meals.
The step was being taken as there is concern that some refugees have turned down the provision of alternative accommodation as they would have to pay for food if they moved out of hotels.
It is also understood the Government was looking at providing beds for 90 refugees in Kilbride Army Camp in Co Wicklow.
A further 70 beds will be made available in a variety of other camps over the coming weeks.
Five camps will also be used to provide some space on their sites to house modular homes.
Among these will be barracks in Mullingar, Cavan and Tralee.
The Government was also set to commission research into the long-term needs of Ukrainian refugees, including schooling and accommodation.
There are going to be measures to help up to 4,000 people in direct provision, who have permission to stay in Ireland, to find alternative accommodation.
The Taoiseach said earlier that there were significant challenges ahead in relation to finding enough accommodation here for people fleeing the war in Ukraine and for applicants for international protection.
Micheál Martin was responding to a question about whether measures agreed at today's remote meeting of the Cabinet would be sufficient to resolve the crisis.
"There's a significant challenge ahead, of that there is no doubt," Mr Martin said.
"We need additional capacity. I believe we can create additional capacity, although it will remain very challenging. We will work with the Ukrainian embassy and community in terms of those issues."
Secretary General of the Department of Children and Integration Kevin McCarthy told an Oireachtas Committee yesterday that well over 50,000 people have sought State-provided accommodation in Ireland this year - and the vast majority of them (43,000) are from Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Minister of State Patrick O'Donovan has said that other EU countries should take more Ukrainian refugees.
Speaking to RTÉ's Drivetime, Mr O'Donovan said: "We're taking per head of population somewhere in the middle of the table.
"There are countries that could be doing a lot better, to be quite frank about it, and that are a lot closer to the centre of the European Union that should be taking more (refugees)."
This "generosity" stems from the fact that Irish people understand forced emigration and persecution, he said.
"We reflect on what was done for Irish people who were washed up in New York and Philadelphia and everywhere else and we have a tradition of looking after people in this country," he added.
Additional reporting David Murphy, Paschal Sheehy
