Anno Santo Hotel
The Anno Santo Hotel, a former family-run 2-star hotel on Threadneedle Road in Salthill, Galway, is listed as an accommodation centre in the gov.ie International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) County Galway 2025 inspection collection, which publishes inspection reports for the centre. According to the Connacht Tribune, the property was contracted to accommodate up to 80 adult female international protection applicants, with a one-year contract reported from December 2023.
Capacity
80
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€2.5m
estimated
Background
The site is at 51 Threadneedle Road, Salthill, Galway. Irish international protection accommodation is provided through IPAS (the International Protection Accommodation Service), under the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. For how the system works and what it costs, open the cost panel on the interactive map with Ireland selected.
Cost
Irish IPAS accommodation is funded by the State. At a blended benchmark of about €84 per person per night (the 2024 whole-system average reported by RTÉ), the 80 people reported here imply roughly €2.5m per year. This is an order-of-magnitude figure for context only, not a site-specific invoice — over 90% of IPAS accommodation is commercially provided and emergency rates run far above State-owned centres.
Sources
gov.ie — IPAS Inspections of Direct Provision and EROC Centres in County Galway 2025 · 2025. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.