Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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1222. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of single persons who are sharing with other persons within the direct provision system. [18569/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) of my Department maintains statistics on the number of residents housed in each centre on a weekly basis. However, we do not maintain statistics on the composition of each room on such a regular basis. The configuration of each centre and the room makeup is constantly changing as new applicants are placed in accommodation; people with a protection status or permission to remain move to accommodation in the community; and transfers take place between accommodation centres.

However on foot of a recent exercise carried out by IPAS, I can inform the Deputy that on 31 March 2021 the number of unrelated single residents assigned to share a room in IPAS accommodation was 1,892.

In line with our policy, there are no more than 3 unrelated single persons sharing a room with other people.