Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 26 June 2024
152. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently in direct provision in Ireland; and the number of whom are children. [27345/24]
View answer153. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people who have died in direct provision since the system was established; the ages of each at time of death; and the cause of death in each case, in tabular form. [27346/24]
View answer154. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 7 December 2021, the number of deaths which have occurred in direct provision in each of the past ten years; and if the data can be presented in the same manner as in the previous response. [27347/24]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 154, 152 and 153 together.
As at 16 June 2024, there were 31,222 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole (of whom 7,833 are children) compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022.
The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) has a policy on the recording and reporting of deaths of residents in International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) centres. As part of that policy, IPAS publishes resident death statistics on a biannual basis with the most recent publication in December 2023.
This information is available on the IPAS website and can be found at the following link:
gov - Statistics on Deaths of International Protection Accommodation Service Residents (www.gov.ie)
www.gov.ie/en/publication/8224f-statistics-on-deaths-of-international-protection-accommodation-service-residents/
