Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 25 October 2006 in relation to property acquired or disposed of in the Dublin area by or on behalf of the Reception and Integration Agency, the number of expressions of interest received from persons interested in providing accommodation for asylum seekers in response to the advertisement of 10 July 2006; if other contractual arrangements, apart from those applying to the property in Clondalkin, were entered into arising out of such expressions of interest; if there have been disposals or termination of contracts in the Dublin area by the RIA within the past two years of such asylum seeker accommodation; and if so, the details thereof. [35849/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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A total of 35 persons expressed an interest in providing accommodation for asylum seekers in response to the advertisement of 10 July 2006. One of these expressions of interest was not received by the closing date of 11 August 2006 and this expression of interest was rejected as being out of time.

No other contractual arrangements, apart from those applying to the property in Clondalkin, were entered into arising from such expressions of interest.

The following centres were closed by the RIA in the Dublin area in the period from October 2004 to date: