The State has paid Deloitte Ireland €10.45 million in fees since the start of last year to provide consultancy services to assist with the response to the International Protection (IP) accommodation crisis and the war in Ukraine.

In the last quarter alone, from the start of April to the end of June, the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration paid Deloitte Ireland LLP €2.45 million.

The payout to the professional services firm for the 2nd quarter is split between €2.07 million under the heading of IP (International Protection) accommodation and related costs and a further €378,687 on Ukrainian accommodation and other costs.

The figures show that the payments to Deloitte Ireland LLP made by the Department of Integration and the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration total €10.45 million since January of last year to the end of June this year, made up of €8.86 million on IP accommodation and related costs and an additional €1.6 million on Ukrainian accommodation.

A spokesman for the Department of Justice said: “Deloitte has provided consultancy services to assist with the response to the international protection accommodation crisis and the war in Ukraine over a number of years.

He said: “These services have focused on a number of areas, including continuing process improvement and reducing rates for accommodation services.”

A spokesperson for Deloitte Ireland said: “Deloitte is not in a position to comment on these client engagements.”

The pay to Deloitte Ireland for its work in the IP and Ukrainian accommodation area is in addition to the €317.05 million paid out by the Department of Justice to commercial operators to accommodate IP applicants and Ukrainians from April 1st to June 30th.

The spend works out at an average of €3.48 million per day, and firms accommodating IP applicants received €255.6m while payments to firms accommodating Ukrainians continued to reduce sharply and amounted to €61.45m for the three months.

On reduced costs in the area of International Protection accommodation, the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Jim O’Callaghan, stated in a recent Dáil reply to Peadar Tóibín (Aontú) that International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) “is reviewing commercial contracts and driving improvements in standards, governance and compliance".

He said: “The introduction of a new rate card model in May 2025 is driving costs down for new and renewed contracts.”

He said that the allocation for IPAS accommodation and supports for 2025 was €1.2 billion and this has reduced to an allocation of over €1.1 billion for accommodation and supports in 2026.