Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost to the State of providing ancillary services to direct provision centres, including catering, in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [52963/17]

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Ancillary services including catering, security, light, heat, laundry facilities etc., provided in accommodation centres under contract to the Department of Justice and Equality are included in the contract price agreed following negotiations with the contractor.

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 on-going 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 (RIA): . The Deputy will appreciate that it would not be possible to extrapolate from the overall contract price the specific costs of heating, lighting, laundry or other ancillary service. 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: 

*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.