Currently the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) provides accommodation to suspected victims of trafficking who are in the International Protection process. Where requested by the HSE or An Garda Síochána, IPAS also provides accommodation to suspected victims of trafficking who are not in the protection process for a period of reflection and rest.
My Department will now consider this issue in the broader context of my Department’s newly conferred responsibility for the accommodation of International Protection applicants and the forthcoming white paper on the replacement for the current model of asylum seeker accommodation provision.