Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1832.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times staff from his Department, or any other Government Department, have consulted in person with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32345/24]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1833.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times staff from his Department, or any other Government Department, have consulted in writing with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32346/24]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1834.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times staff from his Department, or any other Government Department, have consulted on any teleconferencing systems (details supplied), with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32347/24]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1835.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times he has consulted in person with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32348/24]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1836.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times has he personally consulted in writing with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32349/24]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1837.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times has he personally consulted on any teleconferencing system (details supplied) with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32350/24]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1838.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the form of any consultations he had with community groups regarding the locating of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32351/24]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1839.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres located in higher socio-economic areas in each of the past five years. [32352/24]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1840.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres located in middle socio-economic areas in each of the past five years. [32353/24]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1841.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres located in lower socio-economic areas in each of the past five years. [32354/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1832 to 1841, inclusive, together.

A Community Engagement Team (CET) has been established within the Department of Integration to engage directly with elected representatives, relevant Local Authorities, Local Development Companies, and other entities and individuals. The purpose of the team is to improve the flow of information regarding arrivals into areas and to help equip local communities with the accurate information required to help them understand the current situation and to assist with the welcome and integration process for new arrivals.

The CET has been operating since October 2023. It consists of a National Lead on Civic Engagement, two additional team members to support the on-the-ground engagement (part-time basis) and an administrative team. The CET is activated for openings which need additional support and are agreed with IPAS Team, Ukrainian Team and Ministers offices. The openings which the CET support can also be selected if requested by a public representative or a local community leader and it is deemed appropriate.

As of 22 July, the Community Engagement Team issued 92 detailed briefing notes setting out all the details of an accommodation centre including the capacity, contracted service provision and resident profile. The briefing documents are issued to local elected representatives to assist them with in their work at community level, the Local Authority, the Local Development Company and relevant interdepartmental colleagues. Since its establishment, the CET was requested to actively engage on 50 open or proposed accommodation centres. As part of that work, the CET engaged with community members and or community representative groups on approximately 58 occasions about 26 accommodation centres.

Listings of IPAS accommodation centre locations sorted by lower, middle or higher socio-economic are not held by this Department at this time. Weekly and monthly statistics are published on the gov.ie at the link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/07027-ipas-statistics/.

This includes a by county breakdown of where people seeking international protection are resident.