Written answers

Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Department of Justice and Equality

Direct Provision Payments

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount provided to operators and owners of direct provision accommodation in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [52962/17]

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will appreciate that contract values are commercially confidential. In order to ensure the best value is achieved in the expenditure of public funds, it is not the practice to release into the public domain confidential information relating to matters which are under ongoing discussion between contractors and my Department. Notwithstanding this and in line with the Freedom of Information Acts, contract values for each centre for each year up to and including contracts which terminated in 2014 are available on the website of the Reception and Integration Agency:

For ease of reference, I have included the overall figures for the years in question. 

Details of contracts which terminated in 2015 will be available on the website in early 2018.

Total Paid to all contractors by year: 

YearCommercial ContractorsAmount
2011Commercial contracts€57.784 m
State-owned contracts€8.258 m
Self-catering€1.687 m
2012Commercial contracts€52.071 m
State-owned contracts€6.987 m
Self-catering€0.913 m
2013Commercial contracts€45.735 m
State-owned contracts€6.901 m
Self-catering€0.671 m
2014Commercial contracts€43.684 m
State-owned contracts€6.901 m
Self-catering€0.486 m
2015Commercial contracts *€46.671 m
State-owned contracts€7.010 m
Self-catering€1.214 m
2016Commercial contracts *€51.705 m
State-owned contracts€7.646 m
Self-catering€0.976 m
2017 (end Nov)Commercial contracts *€48.724 m
State-owned contracts€8.258 m
Self-catering€0.781 m

*This figure includes payments for Emergency Reception and Orientation Centres contracted by RIA on behalf of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme and the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration.

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