Written answers

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Direct Provision System

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently in direct provision in Ireland; and the number of whom are children. [27345/24]

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people who have died in direct provision since the system was established; the ages of each at time of death; and the cause of death in each case, in tabular form. [27346/24]

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 7 December 2021, the number of deaths which have occurred in direct provision in each of the past ten years; and if the data can be presented in the same manner as in the previous response. [27347/24]

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 154, 152 and 153 together.

As at 16 June 2024, there were 31,222 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole (of whom 7,833 are children) compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022.

The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) has a policy on the recording and reporting of deaths of residents in International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) centres. As part of that policy, IPAS publishes resident death statistics on a biannual basis with the most recent publication in December 2023.

This information is available on the IPAS website and can be found at the following link:

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