Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children who have been granted their stamp four visa or leave to remain but who remain in direct provision or other non-permanent accommodation funded by his Department on the first day of each month in 2017. [49530/17]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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The breakdown of the data in the format requested by the Deputy is not available.  Our data system is not designed in such a way that that we can provide this information, retrospectively, as at the first of each month. 

I can advise the Deputy that as of 1 January 2017 a total of 635 persons who had been granted international protection (317) or leave to remain (318) were residing in Direct Provision accommodation or in an Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre (EROC).  As of 14 November 2017, there were 639 persons with status residing in Direct Provision or an EROC, 430 people of whom had been granted international protection and 209 of whom had been granted leave to remain. The Deputy will be aware that Direct Provision accommodation is intended for and offered to those who have made applications for international protection, which are being examined. As a discretionary measure, those with international protection status or permission to remain are given time to assist them to transition to mainstream housing.