Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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849. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a full, itemised, disaggregated and centre-by-centre breakdown of all financial, operational, service-based, and legal expenditures and arrangements associated with the accommodation and support of international protection applicants in the State from January 2020 to date; and to provide this information in full, without aggregation, redaction, or generalised groupings; and specifically to address the following without limitation (details supplied). [23306/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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Providing reception conditions – accommodation and other basic supports – to people seeking international protection is part of Irish and EU law and is also part of our humanitarian duty to provide shelter to people fleeing war and persecution in their home country.

Ireland has seen a sharp increase in the number of people applying for international protection since 2022 and our Department provides accommodation for approximately 33,000 international protection applicants today, over 9000 of whom are children with their families.

Accommodation is provided at 325 centres, located all over the country.

Please see, in tabular format, the total spend of IPAS accommodation, noting the 2024 figure is provisional pending completion of the 2024 Appropriation Accounts.

In addition to this information, while detailed contractual arrangements for IPAS centres are confidential and commercially sensitive, quarterly reports on all payments over €20,000 are available online at www.gov.ie/en/collection/dfdadb-department-of-children-and-youth-affairs-purchase-orders-for-20000-o/.