Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 26 October 2022
128. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail the five towns and or villages with the smallest populations that have taken in groups of asylum seekers; and if he will provide details of locations, populations of locations and volumes of asylum seekers that have been placed in those locations. [53804/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraDeputy, the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) collates international protection (IP) applicant residency statistics on a county rather than on a locality basis.
In addition, an IP applicant is not required to take up an offer of accommodation from IPAS. This, in turn, means that there may be IP applicants living in any town or locality in the country that IPAS is not aware of.
Please find below a table with IPAS residents by county, as at 16 October 2022. The five counties with the smallest population sizes are Leitrim, Longford, Carlow, Monaghan and Sligo - 2022 Census, preliminary data.
|
County |
IPAS resident numbers |
|
Cavan |
111 |
|
Clare |
631 |
|
Cork |
1,151 |
|
Donegal |
601 |
|
Dublin |
6,250 |
|
Galway |
616 |
|
Kerry |
900 |
|
Kildare |
451 |
|
Laois |
402 |
|
Leitrim |
97 |
|
Limerick |
257 |
|
Longford |
70 |
|
Louth |
454 |
|
Mayo |
360 |
|
Meath |
858 |
|
Monaghan |
413 |
|
Offaly |
161 |
|
Sligo |
179 |
|
Tipperary |
397 |
|
Waterford |
410 |
|
Westmeath |
1,014 |
|
Wexford |
182 |
|
Wicklow |
508 |
|
Total |
16,473 |
