Eglinton Centre (former Eglinton Hotel)
Long-standing IPAS centre in the former Eglinton Hotel on the Salthill seafront promenade, Galway, in asylum use since 2000 (around 195 residents in Jan 2025, rising to 227 by Nov 2025). The operator received just under €32.5m in state contracts between January 2000 and May 2014.
Capacity
227
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€7.0m
estimated
Background
The site is at Eglinton Hotel, Salthill Promenade, 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 227 people reported here imply roughly €7.0m 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
HIQA · 2025. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.