Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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684. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of emergency visits that members of the Gardaí, Fire Service or National Ambulance Service crews made to the temporary tented IPA facility in Lissywollen, Athlone, per each month of Q1 of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25720/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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The Midland Accommodation Centre at Lissywollen in Athlone welcomed residents for the first time in early December 2024, and has been providing accommodation for approximately 150 international protection applicants since that time.

The health needs of international protection (IP) applicants are met through the health services in Ireland, and services are provided through the Health Service Executive (HSE) in the first instance. Services are mainstreamed and accessed through the same referral pathways as Irish citizens.

Residents in IPAS accommodation centres are entitled to a medical card and access GP services within the local community, and mental health services and other health services are accessed through primary care, GP referral, and emergency services.

The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) does not collate data or reports with respect to emergency response visits to specific accommodation centres and can't provide details on operational policing matters under the responsibility of An Garda Síochána.

The safety and wellbeing of all residents and staff in IPAS centres is our priority and we have guidelines in place for IPAS staff, department officials and wider public health and emergency services in relation to responding quickly to any incidents, and taking action to ensure people are safe.

Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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685. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost per year of transporting temporary protection applicants to accommodation centres from 2020 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25728/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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The Irish State and the Irish people have responded with exceptional support and generosity since 2022 in supporting people seeking temporary protection here from the war in Ukraine.

Since February 2022, over 89,500 Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection were provided accommodation by the State. Almost 24,300 of those are currently in State supported accommodation and over 38,000 are in hosted accommodation supported by the Accommodation Recognition Payment.

The cost per year of transporting beneficiaries of temporary protection to accommodation centres for each year since the conflict began in 2022 is set out in the table below.