Glenoaks Lodge
Glenoaks Lodge (also listed as Glen Oaks Lodge) is a former two-star hotel on Bishop O'Donnell Road in the Westside area of Galway City, used as an International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) Direct Provision centre. It appears in the Department of Justice's gov.ie collection of IPAS inspection reports for County Galway 2025. An official inspection report dated 9 December 2025 records the centre as a self-catered "Family Centre" with a contracted capacity of 184 and an occupancy of 107 residents on the day of inspection.
Capacity
184
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€5.6m
estimated
Background
The site is at Bishop O'Donnell Road, 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 184 people reported here imply roughly €5.6m 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 (Department of Justice) Glenoaks Lodge inspection report · Dec 2025. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.