Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 February 2025
650. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list all properties that have housed international protection applicants in the past twelve months, by county, and in the case of Dublin, by postcode, in tabular form. [5934/25]
Amharc ar fhreagra651. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of international protection applicants who have been accommodated in the past twelve months, by county, and in the case of Dublin, by postcode, in tabular form. [5935/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 651 and 650 together.
Currently, the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) is providing accommodation to almost 33,000 people, and over 9,000 of these are children with their family. I regret the information requested by the Deputy is not completely available in the format requested, but my officials have provided information below, which will be of assistance. The Department has a responsibility to protect the right to confidentiality of each international protection (IP) applicant; this duty is set out in the International Protection Act 2015. Accordingly, we do not currently publish details of the specific locations of our accommodation centres by their own location or by postcode. This is due to both safety and security concerns, and to protect the privacy of international protection applicants. However, we can provide in tabular format the numbers of international protection applicants residing in Department supported accommodation by Local Electoral Area, as of 26 January 2025. This information relates to all persons being accommodated by IPAS at this time.
In addition to this, the International Protection Accommodation Service releases weekly statistics in relation to IP applicants. This includes a per county breakdown of where IP applicants are residing and a wide range of other details. These statistics are located on the Gov.ie website: www.gov.ie/en/publication/07027-ipas-statistics/.
I trust this information is helpful to the Deputy.
