Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 22 May 2024
147. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the sum expended on the provision of international protection applicants who were not successful in gaining leave to remain or status and persons in respect of whom a Deportation Order has been signed, respectively, by IPAS in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively. [23214/24]
View answerThe data requested is not available. Financial reporting in IPAS does not distinguish between International Protection (IP) applicants based on the status of their applications.
As of 12 May, there are over 30,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole (of whom 7,356 are children) compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022. Together with Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTP) displaced by the war in Ukraine, this means that Ireland is now accommodating over 102,000 people in state-supported accommodation.The below costs include all accommodation and related costs, including transport, facilities management and other related expenditure. The average cost of accommodating an international protection (IP) applicant in IPAS accommodation in 2023 was €76.80 per night.
Please see, in tabular format, total annual expenditure between 2020 and 2023.
|
Year |
Total Spend |
|
2020 |
€183.215m |
|
2021 |
€190.856m |
|
2022 |
€356.554m |
|
2023 |
€651.713m |
