Mosney
Ireland's largest and longest-standing IPAS accommodation centre — the former Butlin's Mosney holiday camp in Co. Meath, in asylum use since 2002. HIQA recorded 977 capacity / 875 residents in June 2024, and reported that around 80% of residents had refugee status but could not move out due to the housing shortage.
Capacity
977
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€30.0m
estimated
Background
The site is at Mosney Village, Julianstown, Co. Meath, A92 ED6V. 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 977 people reported here imply roughly €30.0m 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
The Irish Times · Aug 2024. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.