Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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829. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individual payments of €800 made under the pledged accommodation scheme for Ukrainian refugees; the number of own door units that are being provided under the initiative; the total cost of the scheme to date; the estimated total number of people being accommodated under the scheme; the number of payment recipients in receipt of payment in respect of more than one property; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13224/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Accommodation Recognition Payment (ARP) is a monthly payment available to you if you are providing accommodation to a person or people who arrived in Ireland under the EU Temporary Protection Directive. The monthly payment from 4^thMarch 2022 to the end of November 2022 was €400. The monthly payment increased to €800 per property from 1^stDecember 2022.

To date, there have been almost 31,000 Accommodation Recognition Payments made with an estimated cost of €22.7 million. Of these, there has been an estimated 14,000 payments of €800. Cases where an individual is being paid in respect of more than one property are counted as a single payment. Cases where an arrears payment of €800 have been made are not included in this estimated number of payments.

A total of 5,244 individuals are currently in receipt of the Accommodation Recognition Payment. Of these, 107 individuals are in receipt of a payment in respect of more than one property. The number of own door units being provided is not available to my Department due to cases where individuals may be housed in accommodation that is separate to the main living quarters of the host. These types of accommodation may not have an Eircode that differs from that of the host.

Currently, 11,275 individuals are being housed under the scheme.