Deloitte Ireland paid €10.45m by state for migration consultancy

Where the Deloitte Ireland money went

The aim, helping manage the response to the international protection accommodation crisis and the war in Ukraine, according to RTÉ News.

New figures show €2.45m of that total was paid out in the second quarter of this year alone.

The payments, made by the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration and the Department of Integration, break down as €8.86m on international protection accommodation.

An additional €1.6m on Ukrainian accommodation, between January last year and the end of June, was also in talks between the consulting entity and the Irish government.

In the last quarter, Deloitte also received a further €1.07m for IT maintenance and support in unrelated work for the department.

There is more Irish news on the cost of the accommodation response.

A spokesman for the Department of Justice said Deloitte’s work had "focused on a number of areas, including continuing process improvement and reducing rates for accommodation services."

Deloitte Ireland said it was "not in a position to comment on these client engagements."

The consultancy bill comes on top of the €317.05m paid to commercial operators to accommodate applicants and Ukrainians between April and June, an average of €3.48m a day.