Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 25 June 2025, if he will provide the information which was not provided regarding the highest rate per-bed per-day paid for accommodation in IPAS accommodation in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36456/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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Further to Parliamentary Question of 25 June 2025, the State is providing accommodation to almost 33,000 people who have applied for international protection, in over 320 centres nationwide.

Over 90% of this accommodation is commercially provided at this time, and the State is actively working to shift this balance away from commercial accommodation, toward more State-owned provision.

The financial information regarding the highest rate per-bed per-day paid for contracts or contractual arrangements between my Department and external providers are considered commercially sensitive.

In order to preserve the State's negotiating position, the specific costs paid to providers per night, or the details of contract prices, are not published as making this data available to other accommodation providers would not serve the public interest in terms of attaining value for money.

The Department provides access to detailed information on payments to accommodation providers on gov.ie, through quarterly online reports detailing Purchase Orders (PO) relating to payments of a value greater than €20,000. These are published, once per quarter, on: gov.ie:www.gov.ie/en/collection/dfdadb-department-of-children-and-youth-affairs-purchase-orders-for-20000-o/