There has been a 'shift' in Ireland's welcome to refugees in the last two years, according to Ciara Kelly.
The Newstalk Breakfast presenter was speaking as a 23-year-old Ukranian woman says she's returning to the war-torn country because of her treatment in Ireland.
Ciara said she thinks the attitude of the public has changed.
"I think it's a function of numbers and time," she said.
"I think that a lot of people arrived in a short space of time and I think in the beginning of that surge of people coming, I think the Irish people were very welcoming.
"I think in the same way that maybe people - if they were walking up the street in Dublin and they'd pass a homeless person - they might give them €5 or whatever.
"If they passed 20 homeless people, they're not going to give the 20th person €5 as well."
'Politicians recognise it'
Ciara said the change is coming across from politicians as well.
"I do think that there has been a shift," she said.
"I think when you look at at the texts that come in, when you listen to the kind of the narratives out there and I think the politicians have recognised it too because they're all kind of pivoting slightly as well.
"I think that's because they recognise that the electorate has shifted.
"I don't know if some of it's racism, I don't know if some of it is just that people feel that they've done enough, they don't want to do anymore.
"But I do think something has shifted. And I wonder now, are we a cold house in a way that maybe 24 months ago we were very welcoming?"
'They haven't been integrated'
Presenter Jonathan Healy said Direct Provision - which was once set to be abandoned - is now the better option for people coming here.
"If you're in Direct Provision you're actually doing well because you're not in a tent," he said.
"Something very weird has happened here and I think there's a couple of factors at play.
"Ironically, Roderic O'Gorman's department is the Department of Integration - that is the last thing that has actually happened to the Ukrainian refugees and other people who are coming here seeking refuge.
"They haven't been integrated into the community, they are left in accommodation with other people in similar circumstances and effectively forgotten about."
Jonathan says he thinks the public have psychologically 'moved on' from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"For some reason the Irish public - who were willing to let people sleep on their floors, opening their arms in a way like Operation Shamrock after the Second World War, taking in all in sundry because they were fleeing war - we've kind of moved on psychologically from it for some reason," he said.
He added that this change means people are being left "effectively withering in these accommodations."
