Nearly €500,000 has been spent over the past two years.
The State has spent almost €500,000 on security at a former IPAS centre in the Midlands in the last two years.
The Justice Minister is confirming €425,000 has been spent on the now closed Midlands Accommodation Centre in Athlone so far this year, with an additional €54,000 spent last year.
Responding to a request from Meath West TD and Aontú leader Peadar Toibin, Minister Jim O'Callaghan says there is a need for security at the site is due to criminal damage.
It brings the government spend on unoccupied IPAS centres to €2.2 million in the last two years, with €1.7 million being spent on River Lodge, Newtownmountkennedy, in Wicklow.
The leader of Aontu says a former IPAS centre in Westmeath should be deconstructed and repurposed into community use,
Deputy Tobin says the Government not communicating on centre locations is not good enough:
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