Carlow houses lowest number of international protection applicants seeking asylum

The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O'Gorman, has stated that the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) is currently engaged with over 220 providers across all 26 counties.

International Protection Accommodation Services is responsible for providing accommodation and related services to people in the International Protection (asylum) process.

As at 28th August 2023, there are 23,194 international protection applicants (IPAs) accommodated in the IPAS system as a whole.

County Carlow has ranked the lowest in terms of occupancy per county, accommodating just 86 international protection applicants.

All other counties have accommodated people within three figure numbers.

Louth, Ireland's smallest county, has accommodated a total of 778 IPAs.

Dublin, as expected, accommodated the most at a total of 8,103 people out of the 23,194.