Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 June 2024
355. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 647 of 11 June 2024, the average duration spent in IPAS accommodation to date by international protection applicants and beneficiaries that applied for international protection in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively, in tabular form. [27292/24]
View answerThere are currently over 31,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole (of whom over 7,833 are children) compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022.Please see, in tabular format, the average duration spent in IPAS accommodation by international protection applicants arriving between 2019 and 2024. This data is as at 24 June 2024 and pertains to the date of entrance into IPAS accommodation.
|
Year of entrance |
Average duration spent in accommodation, as at 24 June 2024 |
|
2019 |
59 |
|
2020 |
48 |
|
2021 |
33 |
|
2022 |
22 |
|
2023 |
10 |
|
2024 |
2 |
