Over €91m in direct provision contracts in breach of public spending laws 

Lucky Khambule, co-founder of the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, said: “No matter who is going to run accommodation for asylum seekers, it should not be for profit."

More than €91m paid by the State to private contractors for the creation and operation of direct provision centres was in breach of public spending laws.

Groups representing asylum seekers and refugees say the revelation is further proof of "the huge cost of a failing system".