City Ark Hotel and Apartments
City Ark Hotel and Apartments (also known as the Golf Hotel) is an IPAS international-protection accommodation centre on the Citywest campus at Saggart, County Dublin. It appears in the Department of Justice / IPAS County Dublin 2025 inspection collection on gov.ie, which publishes a dedicated inspection report for the centre. It is a separate building from the adjoining Citywest Hotel and Convention Centre (which the State purchased) and has been used to accommodate people in the international-protection process since 2022. A 2025 inspection recorded around 783 residents accommodated across 294 rooms.
Capacity
783
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€24.0m
estimated
Background
The site is at Citywest campus, Garters Lane, Saggart, Co. Dublin. 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 783 people reported here imply roughly €24.0m 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 Dublin 2025 · 2025. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.