Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts paid to the companies contracted to run each State-owned direct provision centre, from the inception of the system to present, by centre, by contractor and by start and end dates of each contract, in tabular form; and her plans to read this into the record of Dáil Éireann. [42438/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The information in relation to State-owned centres is not readily available.

While RIA maintains a table of information on commercially owned accommodation centres, with information in the format sought by the Deputy, it is not compiled in respect of State-owned accommodation centres. The information sought by the Deputy would entail the examination of 15 years of data in order to collate the data. The Reception & Integration Agency (RIA) of my Department has stated that the retrieval and examination of the records concerned would cause a substantial and unreasonable interference in the day-to-day work of the office.

The Deputy may be interested to know that the Annual Reports of the Reception and Integration Agency from 2007 to 2013 provide a breakdown of yearly expenditure into the broad headings of 'Commercial', 'State-owned', 'Self-catering', 'Additional Costs', 'Transport' and 'Miscellaneous'. These Annual Reports are published on RIA's website - www.ria.gov.ie

Tenders for the management of these centres have been published in the e-Tenders website and the OJEU since 2004. RIA is scheduled to re-tender for these particular services shortly and is currently working with the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) on this matter. It would not be appropriate to publish any additional information that could compromise the integrity of that tendering process.