Portree House
Portree House (also listed as Portree Guesthouse) is a former B&B on Mary Street in Waterford city. It appears in the Government of Ireland's IPAS County Waterford 2025 inspection collection, with published International Protection Accommodation Services inspection reports for Portree House (September 2025) and Portree Guesthouse (July 2025), confirming its use as international protection accommodation. According to WLR FM, the 23-bedroom former B&B was converted to house International Protection applicants under an initial 12-month contract, accommodating 63 residents initially and over 100 once conversion works were completed.
Capacity
100
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€3.1m
estimated
Background
The site is at 10-11 Mary Street, Waterford, Co. Waterford, Ireland. 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 100 people reported here imply roughly €3.1m 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 Waterford 2025 · Sept 2025. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.