Cost of accommodating each asylum seeker rises to €84 a day

In January a decision to move up to 400 Ukrainians from the Quality Hotel in Youghal — where they had been living since early 2022 — in order to instead accommodate IPAS applicants at the site was put on hold by the Department of Integration following a local outcry. Picture: Dan Linehan

The average cost to the State of accommodating individual asylum seekers in Ireland has risen by nearly 50% over the past two years, according to new figures.

The cost to house international protection applicants rose from €57 per day in 2022 to €84 in 2024, the Department of Integration said. There are currently nearly 33,000 international protection applicants accommodated across Ireland, roughly 9,000 of whom are children with their families.