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The International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) is a unit of the Irish Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. [1] It is responsible for the provision of accommodation and related services to people in the international protection process, being those applying for refugee status or subsidiary protection .
This is a list of current and former Australian immigration detention facilities. Immigration detention facilities are used to house people in immigration detention , and people detained under the Pacific Solution , and Operation Sovereign Borders .
By 4 June there had been at least 26 attempts at suicide or self-harm by men in the Lorengau camps and Port Moresby (in the hospital and accommodation for sick asylum seekers). [35] The PNG paramilitary police squad was deployed around one of the camps in an attempt to deter suicide and self-harm attempts.
A 2009 paper from the Irish College of Psychiatrists stated that migrants and asylum seekers in Ireland are 10x more likely to suffer from PTSD, and 3x more likely to suffer from psychosis. [27] 53% of asylum seekers in direct provision reported having been tortured before their arrival in Ireland. [28]
Asylum seekers and their dependants who are waiting for their claim to be assessed, or who are appealing against a rejected application, are eligible for Section 95 support. This includes the ...
Expenditure on asylum accommodation and support has risen significantly in the past four years, with think tank IPPR estimating that costs have gone from £739m in 2019/20 to £4.7bn in 2023/24.
In June 2013 a surge of asylum-seekers resulted in the detention facilities exceeding their designed capacity. Regular operating capacity is 1094 people, with a 'contingency capacity' of 2724. After the interception of four boats in six days carrying 350, the Immigration Department said there were 2960 "irregular maritime arrivals" being held. [36]
In September 2005 Manuel Bravo, an asylum seeker from Angola, hanged himself while in detention awaiting deportation with his 13-year-old son following a dawn raid at his home in Leeds. [30] In March 2014, 40-year-old Christine Case from Jamaica died at the centre from a massive pulmonary thrombo-embolism. The family were only told of her death ...