State spending over €42m a month on refugee accommodation centres

At the Ashbourne House in Cork, the price per person accommodated was €1,057.

The Government is spending more than €42m each month on the rental, management and maintenance of accommodation centres for asylum seekers, new figures reveal.

All told some €42,191,896 is being paid to private providers across the country for the use of 180 centres of varying natures on a calendar month basis by the Department of Integration, the figures show.