Mary Lou McDonald calls on Government to sort out ‘obscene profiteering from Ipas accommodation’

There is obscene profiteering from the International Protection Accommodation Service (Ipas) for asylum-seekers, the Dáil has been told.

Two directors of a cafe-turned-accommodation centre paid themselves €4.6m last year, whereas it previously turned a profit of just €2,092, TDs heard.

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan said spending on accommodation had increased from €129m in 2019 to €1bn last year.

The number of centres had gone from 78 eight years ago to 324 now, with residents having increased from 7,000 then to 32,000 now.

Credit to : Irish Independent

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