Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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483. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a full breakdown on the number of asylum seekers/refugees accommodated across various sites in County Westmeath in tabular form and the number of each nationality accommodated in the various sites, including the direct provision centre at Lissywoolen, Athlone. [4095/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I thank the Deputy for his question. This information will be provided directly to the Deputy in the coming days.

Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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484. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of asylum seekers/refugees in County Westmeath as of December 2022. [4096/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Ireland and many other European countries are experiencing a significant increase of people seeking international protection (IP).

As at14 January, there are over 26,500 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole compared with just over 19,000 people at this time last year.

On 25 December 2022, there were circa 18,534 people accommodated in the IPAS system as a whole, of whom 701 were residing in Westmeath.

IPAS releases weekly statistics in relation to international protection (IP) applicants. This includes a per county breakdown of where IP applicants are residing. These statistics are located on the Gov.ie website:

Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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485. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the number of both IPAS applicants and Ukrainian refugees in Tipperary broken down per electoral district. [4104/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The information is not available in the manner requested by the Deputy with respect to International Protection (IP) applicants and Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs). However, data at local authority and town level for both IPs and BOTPs is presented in the following table.

It should be noted that the information provides an overview at a given point in time and is contingent on a number of factors that are subject to change including accommodation availability, providers in contract at any given time, configurations, transfers resulting from contracts ceasing, etc...

Data at county and local authority level on numbers in receipt of such State funded accommodation under DCEDIY's remit is published regularly on the Government’s website –

gov.ie - Accommodation of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) (www.gov.ie)

gov.ie - IPAS Statistics (www.gov.ie)