Figure for first three months of the year is 75 per cent higher than comparable figure for last year
People including asylum seekers outside the International Protection Office, off Dublin's Mount Street Lower, last month. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
The meeting heard that 5,100 asylum seekers came to Ireland during the first three months of the year, up some 75 per cent on the 2,900 arrivals in the same period last year.statistics show the numbers seeking international protection in the second, third and fourth quarters each year are normally higher than in quarter one. If the number of IP applicants follows that pattern this year, the total would comfortably surpass the 12,300 for last year and 12,600 for 2022.
Some €1.49 billion was paid for former hotels, guest houses and other buildings to accommodate Ukrainian refugees, with a further €640 million paid to private operators in respect of IP applicants. Green Party TD Marc Ó Cathasaigh asked the officials whether the department had the competency to “drive a hard bargain on the part of the State” to make sure value for money was being achieved and that “we are actually moving to higher-quality providers”.
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