Port Road Apartments
Port Road Apartments is a permanent International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal, accommodating people in the international protection process. A former student accommodation complex on Port Road, it opened as an accommodation centre for families in early 2021 and is operated under contract by Bridgestock Care Ltd. An official IPAS/IPPS inspection report (October 2021) records a contracted capacity of 306, with the centre profile listed as families. The centre is included in HIQA's register of International Protection Accommodation centres (Centre ID 8448) and was inspected by HIQA on 19 September 2024.
Capacity
306
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€9.4m
estimated
Background
The site is at Port Road, Letterkenny, County Donegal. 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 306 people reported here imply roughly €9.4m 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 — Find a Centre: Port Road Apartments (Centre ID 8448) · Nov 2024. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.