The International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) is a unit of the Irish Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.
The Directorate for Asylum Support Services (DASS) was established in November 1999 as a unit of the Department of Justice.
To meet this requirement, various private companies provide these services at several accommodation centres on the country, the largest being at Mosney.
The system has been criticised by human rights organisations as illegal, inhuman and degrading.
[3][4] After a government decision of 2 March 2004, RIA was assigned responsibility for supporting the repatriation, on an ongoing basis for the Department of Social Protection, of nationals of the ten new EU member states (Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia) who might fail the Habitual Residency Condition attaching to Social Assistance Payments.