Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 November 2022
492. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding a hotel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58083/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraDeputy, premises providing emergency accommodation to international protection applicants are not covered by the National Standards. However, any issues that emerge in respect of such premises are immediately flagged by Department officials with the management of the premises for immediate resolution.
The Esplanade Hotel has been providing accommodation to IPAS since March 2019.
There are currently 189 residents. 52 of whom are children.
The breakdown of residents is below in tabular format:
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Type |
Total |
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Single Males |
56 |
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Single Females |
23 |
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Total Singles |
79 |
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Family unit type |
Total no of this family unit type |
Total no of people |
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1 Parent 1 child |
20 |
40 |
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1 Parent 2 children |
5 |
15 |
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1 Parent 3 children |
1 |
4 |
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1 Parent 4 children |
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1 Parent 5 children |
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Couple no children |
1 |
2 |
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Couple 1 Child |
9 |
25 |
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Couple 2 Children |
5 |
20 |
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Couple 3 Children |
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Couple 4 Children |
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Couple 5 Children |
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Couple 6 Children |
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Other |
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Total |
41 |
109 |
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Total Children (U18) |
Age 0->4 |
Age 5->12 |
Age 13->17 |
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52 |
32 |
14 |
6 |
The pressure on the State to accommodate over 64,000 people currently has led to significant shortages particularly for the international protection cohort.
As of 13 November 2022, there are 17,192 people accommodated in the IPAS accommodation system as a whole, 8,711 of those people are in emergency accommodation centres.
Emergency centres have been opened in all parts of the country. There have been circa 40 accommodation locations utilised since January across 13 counties.
As the Department has not been able to meet the capacity needs from the previous Request for Tender (RFT) process to provide more accommodation, officials continue to engage in emergency accommodation procurement to address the shortfall in capacity.
With respect to Emergency accommodation, the Department notifies all providers of the IPAS tender process and it is open to them to apply if they so wish.
