657. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will set out precisely the number of international protection applicants and the number of people fleeing war-torn Ukraine that are being accommodated in County Sligo, County Leitrim and County Donegal, identifying the properties at which they are being accommodated, in tabular form. [43275/24]

The Government is committed to supporting all those seeking international protection in Ireland, and to continuing to provide shelter and support to people fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Ireland currently provides accommodation to 32,600 people applying for international protection and has welcomed over 109,000 people from Ukraine since 2022.

International protection

There are over 32,600 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole, compared with approximately 7,000 people at the end of August 2021. 1 in every 4 people in international protection accommodation is a child with their family.

People are accommodated at over 300 locations, in every county in Ireland.

Emergency centres have been opened in all parts of the country, and intensive efforts are ongoing to source suitable accommodation, in line with the Government's Comprehensive Accommodation Strategy (CAS).

Despite this, significant shortages of accommodation are being seen, and since last December 2023, over 2,800 people who have applied for international protection since December 2023 have not been offered accommodation.

IPAS provides accommodation as part of Irish and EU law and also under our humanitarian duty to provide shelter to people fleeing war and persecution in their home country.

Please see below the number of International Protection applicants residing in counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal as of 13th October 2024:

In relation to the specific locations of IPAS accommodation, this information is not published in the manner requested, due to the need to protect the privacy and security of people applying for international protection.

Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection

My Department does not publicly detail information in the manner requested by the Deputy in the interest of the privacy and security of residents and providers.

However, numbers of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) in counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal, as of 16th October 2024, are listed below in tabular form. Please note that the below table refers to BOTPs in DCEDIY-provided accommodation only. I should also point out to the Deputy that these figures provide an overview at a point in time and are contingent on a number of factors that are subject to change including accommodation availability, providers in contract at any given time, configurations, transfers resulting from contracts ceasing.

Further break downs of the information gathered, including a per county breakdown is available on the below links: gov.ie - IPAS Statistics (www.gov.ie).

gov.ie - Accommodation of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) (www.gov.ie).

Further information with respect to BOTPs is published by the CSO on an anonymised basis as part of its Arrivals from the Ukraine series

www.cso.ie/en/statistics/population/arrivalsfromukraineinireland/.