Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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591. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times he has either met with or corresponded with managers of direct provision centres since he took office; and the dates on which these meeting or instances of correspondence occurred. [30891/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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My officials will require more time to collate information regarding correspondence or meetings with managers of International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) accommodation centres and the dates these took place. My officials will contact the Deputy with the details as soon as it is possible.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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592. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the companies that have been contracted to run or manage direct provision centres in the State, either currently or in the past; and the amount paid to each over each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [30892/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Please see in tabular format, the list of providers who have provided accommodation services to the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS). Figures paid to individual providers is deemed to be commercially sensitive information.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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593. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to any instances where the owner of a building which is or was operating as a direct provision centre, is alleging that the company contracted by the State to manage or run the centre is not paying their rent to the owner of the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30893/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Department is not aware of any instances alleging that any company contracted by the State to manage or run International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) centres is not paying the rent due to the owner of the property.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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594. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if IPAS or his Department collate data on the number of times asylum seekers living in direct provision have attempted to take their own lives; and if so, if he will furnish this Deputy with such data, in tabular form. [30894/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) policy in relation to Persons in Suicidal Distress outlines that the Critical Incident (CI) policy is to be implemented in the event of a person attempting suicide or dying by suicide. Death statistics are published every 6 months and may record where a person has died by suicide.

IPAS published a Critical Incident Policy in November 2019.Records on any serious attempt at suicide have been kept in line with this policy since January 2020.

A yearly record of Critical Incidents occurring in centres is maintained, defined as “serious injury, harm to self or others” so any serious attempt at suicide in a centre should be notified as a Critical Incident (CI). An attempted suicide will be recorded as “harm to self or others”. However, as per policy, a CI is only an incident that occurs on site in an IPAS Accommodation Centre. Therefore, incidents that happen outside the confines of the Centre are not recorded as CI’s.

Please see the requested data below in tabular format.