Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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1945.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the expenditure pre-committed to by his Department for international protection and temporary protection related expenditure, respectively, in each of the years 2025 to 2029, in tabular form. [33644/24]

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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1946.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the capital and current expenditure pre-committed to his Department for international protection and temporary protection-related expenditure, respectively, in each of the years 2025 to 2029, in tabular form. [33645/24]

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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1947.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the core and non-core expenditure for his Department as regards international protection and temporary protection-related expenditure, respectively, in each of the years 2025 to 2027, in tabular form. [33646/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1945 to 1947, inclusive, together.

Please note that the data requested by the Deputy is not available.

While some contracts with accommodation providers may extend into 2025, payments are paid out on a monthly basis, up to a month in advance.

Payments under grant agreements which extend into 2025 may vary dependent on performance.

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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1948.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the number of persons exiting IPAS by year, from 2021 to 2022, and by month, from January 2023 to June 2024, in tabular form. [33647/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Department is currently providing accommodation to over 31,000 people, of whom 5,323 had been granted permission to remain in Ireland as of the end of 10 July 2024 and, as such, are no longer in the IP process. At the same time, there is currently an ongoing shortfall of accommodation for newly arrived people applying for IP.

Where a person progresses through the application and review process, and receives a grant of status or permission to remain in Ireland, their status in terms of access to housing becomes the same as other people living in Ireland and Irish citizens.

All those with IP/Permission to Remain are written to once status has been granted and are advised that given their progress through the IP process, they will need to seek alternative accommodation. They are supported to register with a Local Authority and, if required, avail of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) to secure alternative accommodation.

Given the change in legal status, IPAS works with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to support people in securing alternative accommodation. A specific Transition team works in collaboration with Depaul Ireland, the Peter McVerry Trust, and Local Authorities to support residents with status to move on from IPAS accommodation.

Where a person cannot secure independent accommodation by the defined date, IPAS will provide temporary, emergency accommodation. Acknowledging the ongoing increases in people arriving into Ireland seeking international protection, and the shortfall in accommodation for new arrivals, the Department will continue to work to support all those using our services.

Please see below the numbers of people with status exiting IPAS accommodation in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date.

Please see below the numbers of people with status exiting IPAS accommodation by month in 2024.

Please also see, in tabular format, the total occupancy in IPAS accommodation by month from January 2021 until June 2024 respectively.

Weekly and Monthly statistics are available publicly on the gov.ie at the link below:

www.gov.ie/en/publication/07027-ipas-statistics/

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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1949.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection that are accommodated in modular units, pledged accommodation and Department-supported accommodation respectively, in tabular form. [33648/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, my Department continues to work as part of the whole-of-Government response with a focus on providing access to emergency temporary accommodation to those fleeing the conflict who request it, in line with Government policy. To date, over 108,500 beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs) have arrived in Ireland and over 85,000 of those have been referred to my Department seeking accommodation from the State.

The information requested has been extracted from our systems and is outlined in tabular form below. I should also point out to the Deputy that these figures provide an overview at a point in time and are 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.

In respect of pledged accommodation, the uptake of the Accommodation Recognition Payment provides a good gauge of the number of hosts currently accommodating BOTPs, as the payment is available to those who have made arrangements through the Irish Red Cross appeal, the Offer a Home scheme, and those made independently.