IPAS TAX HAVENS...Roderic O’Gorman’s Department paid €924,060,115.80 in the first half of this year to private companies providing accommodation to asylum seekers

Roderic O’Gorman’s Department paid €924,060,115.80 in the first half of this year to private companies providing accommodation to asylum seekers and refugees up by €73m compared to the same period last year, when €851,356,401.26 was spent according to data given to the

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  Nine of the 24 companies paid by him are based abroad and were paid almost €20m more this year than in the same period last year - despite calls from the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee last February for a review of how accommodation is sourced to stop people 'with a sharp eye and good

accountants leaping on the bandwagon'