Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
9:30 am
Mr. David Delaney:
We are providing accommodation to approximately 29,000 people at the moment. Approximately 13,200 people applied for international protection last year; approximately 13,600 applied in 2022 and in the first quarter of this year more than 5,000 claimed international protection so we have seen a fairly significant jump in quarter 1 of this year compared to the very high numbers in 2023 and 2022.