{"id":120170,"date":"2025-10-13T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120170\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:27:11","slug":"1600-asylum-seekers-without-accommodation-since-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120170\/","title":{"rendered":"1,600+ asylum seekers without accommodation since May"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over 1,600 migrants who claimed asylum in Ireland have gone without an offer of State accommodation since May alone, according to Justice Minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a Parliamentary Question submitted to the Justice Minister, O\u2019Callaghan confirmed that a total of 1,680 single male applicants were not offered accommodation on arrival in Ireland between May and September of 2025.<\/p>\n

The numbers break down as follows:<\/p>\n

\n

May \u2013 296
June \u2013 309
July \u2013 351
August \u2013 317
September \u2013 407<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Explaining the background to the current situation, the Fianna F\u00e1il Minister explained that \u201cextensive challenges were posed to the State in sourcing international protection accommodation\u201d during what he called an \u201cunprecedented surge\u201d in applications from 2022 to 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring this period, over 45,000 additional international protection applicants arrived in Ireland,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrior to this, a typical 3-year period would have seen close to 8,000 or 9,000 arrivals.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that during the \u201csurge period\u201d, the State was \u201cobliged to urgently source over 26,000 beds for international protection applicants, and in parallel, up to 60,000 beds for people fleeing the war in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShortages of suitable accommodation meant that from December 2023 on, IPAS has been unable to offer accommodation to all single male applicants on arrival,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a vulnerability triage on application, people who are not offered accommodation are given a weekly allowance of \u20ac113.80 per week, an increase of \u20ac75 more than the standard weekly allowance for asylum-seekers.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also explained that not all males who fail to receive State accommodation are necessarily sleeping rough.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile not all unaccommodated applicants are rough-sleeping, IPAS can also make offers of accommodation to any applicant who is, identified through outreach that is organised 7 days a week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIPAS also has arrangements in place with a range of NGO partners to provide drop-in day services for unaccommodated people. This means people can access facilities including hot showers, meals and laundry services.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Minister also noted that many of the applications \u201chave been made a retrospective offer of accommodation, after their initial arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reduced rate of new applications this year has meant that IPAS bas been able to review the cases of people who are awaiting an offer of accommodation and make offers to those who have been waiting longest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of the review process, we are also identifying people who no longer require accommodation. They will be removed from the list of people waiting for an offer, speeding up the process for people on the list who still need accommodation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis review has reduced the number of unaccommodated people from over 3,500 in March 2025, to 613. As my officials work through these cases on a daily basis and validate data for publication, I expect this number to reduce further for September.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThis means that eligible people who applied for international protection during 2023 and 2024 and the first 6 months of 2025 have received an offer of accommodation\u2026Depending on availability of spaces and numbers of new applicants, we will continue to make offers of accommodation to more people over the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 1,600 migrants who claimed asylum in Ireland have gone without an offer of State accommodation since May…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[73329,4391,9,10,13,14,6,26735,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-120170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-asylum-seeker","9":"tag-ben-scallan","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-jim-ocallaghan","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}