The first thing Basri Krasniqi will do when he arrives back at home in Pristina later today is to check on his extended family.
Then the former truck company owner will go to the villages he has seen destroyed on TV. The family of Basri's wife Suzana has been living in what is left of the Krasniqis' Pristina home since their own house, 20 miles south of Pristina, was destroyed.
The Krasniqi family has spent the last 14 months at Park Lodge in Killarney. Living with nine other families was not always easy for the Krasniqis and their four children. But being with other Kosovar families helped them overcome language difficulties and homesickness. It also helped "when you got bad news from home", according to Basri.
The £18,000 repatriation grant has been a big factor in the Krasniqis' decision to return home. Some 90 per cent of Kosovars would have remained in Ireland but for the repatriation offer, Basri believes. But for Habib Tmava, a printer by profession, the decision to leave Ireland has been agonising. "I left Kosovo to make it safe for the kids," Habib said. He and his wife have two young children. Habib is grateful for the repatriation package - his friends leaving Norway and Austria will not get as much.
"But what is not so good is they lock the door. You can't come back," Habib says. He would like the choice of returning if it does not work out in Kosovo. "Not as a refugee but as a bona fide worker . . . If the Government can do something about this, it would be good."