This release is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example, new administrative data sources.
Note that the 109,566 figure refers to the cumulative total of arrivals from Ukraine, currently recorded as a Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BoTP), and who were issued a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN). This figure does not include 1,877 individuals that were assigned PPSNs and were once recorded as BoTPs but have since had their BoTP status changed. BoTP status can change for various reasons, e.g., where an individual can voluntarily withdraw their BoTP status, including when an individual informs the relevant authorities that they are returning to Ukraine or moving to another European country to apply for BoTP status there. BoTP and related figures will continue to be reviewed by the Central Statistics Office in the context of future releases in the Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland series.
There were 109,566 Personal Public Service Numbers (PPSNs) given to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BoTP) from Ukraine between 04 March 2022 and 29 September 2024.
Of these BoTPs from Ukraine who were given a PPSN, 75% had activity in administrative data after 30 June 2024, based on data currently available to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Women and men aged 20 years and over, made up 46% and 24% respectively of arrivals to date, while 30% were people aged under 20 years. Of all arrivals to date aged 18 years and over, 62% of males and 48% of females were married or cohabiting.
There were 10,274 arrivals enrolled in further education and training courses on 01 October 2024, of which 6,636 were enrolled in further education English language courses.
As of 29 September 2024, 46,668 arrivals had attended an employment support event arranged by Intreo Public Employment Services. Of those, 56% (or 26,167 people) noted that English language proficiency was a challenge in securing employment.
Of the 46,668 arrivals that attended an Intreo event, 21,109 had recorded previous occupations, with Professionals being the largest group at 31% (or 6,605 people). Of the 30,507 people where the highest level of education was recorded, 60% had achieved a qualification equivalent to NFQ level 7 or higher.
The Temporary Protection Directive (2001/55 EC) was activated on the 04 March 2022 by EU Council Decision EU 2022/382, to provide immediate protection in EU countries for people displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on 24 February 2022. This publication examines and analyses the population cohort that availed of the temporary protection and received a PPSN. Therefore, the figures quoted should be interpreted as estimates of the numbers arriving from Ukraine. For example, the number of persons who have arrived from Ukraine may not have received a PPSN yet, while the figures may also include those who received a PPSN earlier in the crisis but who are no longer resident in the State.
To avail of the Temporary Protection Directive and to reside in Ireland, an Arrival from Ukraine must meet the following criteria:
a) A Ukrainian national who was residing in Ukraine before 24 February 2022.
b) A national of a third country (other than Ukraine) or stateless person who would have benefited from international protection (for example: Refugee Status) or an equivalent national protection status in Ukraine and were residing there before 24 February 2022.
c) A family member* of persons covered by a) and b) above, where the family already existed in Ukraine at the time of events leading to the mass influx prior to 24 February 2022.
*Family members include a spouse or partner, unmarried minor children of either of them, and their other close dependent family relatives who have been living with them as part of the family unit.
Temporary protection also applies to people who were residing in Ukraine before 24 February 2022 with a permanent Ukrainian residence permit, who cannot safely return to their country of origin.
In experimental Tables 3 & 4 below an indication is included on whether arrivals from Ukraine may have stayed or left Ireland, by examining activity in administrative data. In earlier releases of this series a criterion of picking up a welfare payment from a post office was included as an indication of administrative activity. Since Series 10, this criterion has been updated to an individual having a welfare payment date, and so enhancing the measure of activity in administrative data.
Figure 1 shows the total number of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (based on PPSN allocations) from Ukraine to Ireland on the 29 September 2024 was 109,566. This is a 1% increase compared to four weeks earlier (01 September 2024).
Based on the 109,566 arrivals, 95% or 104,543 individuals could be mapped to an LEA. The LEA mapping of arrivals is based on either the local post office address through which refugees were seeking assistance from the Department of Social Protection or, if available, the arrivals' residential address where an Accommodation Recognition Payment (ARP) is payable to the host of the residence. The post office address is used as a tentative proxy for place of residence where ARP data is not present. The 104,543 mapped records for the 29 September 2024 are shown on Map 1. Users can hover their mouse over the map to see the name of the LEA and the number of arrivals from Ukraine in the LEA. Zooming in on the map will show data for the smaller sized LEAs.
Table 2 shows the age and sex breakdown of arrivals as of 29 September 2024. We see that women and men, aged 20 and over, account for 46% and 24% respectively of this cohort to date, while individuals aged 0-19 (both male and female) account for 30%.
Again using the same approach as described for Map 1 above, Map 2 shows the arrival rate (%) by LEA (per 100 of the Census 2022 de facto population) as of 29 September 2024. The rate ranges from 0.24% to 11.43% in LEAs across the country.
While PPSN allocations give the total number of arrivals from Ukraine under the Temporary Protection Directive, it is not necessarily indicative of how many persons are currently residing in Ireland as some arrivals may have subsequently left.
Experimental Tables 3 & 4 below give an indication on whether arrivals from Ukraine have stayed or left Ireland by examining activity in administrative data. Attending an Intreo event, having a welfare payment date, starting a SOLAS course, being a parent/guardian of a child in the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) or Early Childhood Care and Education Programme (ECCE) Scheme, getting paid for employment, having an active employment or changing ones address with DSP are taken as signs of activity. For children, the activity status is dependent on that of their parent(s)/guardian(s).
Subject to revision, 1,191 persons had such an activity in the available data during July 2024, while an additional 80,860 persons had activity in the selected administrative data sources after 31 July 2024. Combing these two groups together, 75% of persons had recent administrative data activity, i.e., activity after the 30 June 2024, also see Background Notes.
The rate of administrative activity after 30 June 2024 is an estimate as it is based on the administrative data currently available to the CSO. The availability of more real-time data to the CSO will help provide more up to date statistics in this series going forward.
For further information on the data sources, linking procedures and definitions of this report, see Background Notes.
Table 3 was updated on 25 October 2024 due to an error in calculating the percentages in the column 'Percentage with activity after 2024 June 30' for individuals aged 18 and over. The entries for the 'Aged 17 and under' and 'All' categories are unchanged.
| Date | Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection from Ukraine | Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection with administrative activity in last three months | Percentage of arrivals with administrative activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06 June 2023 | 84613 | 71420 | 84 |
| 08 October 2023 | 96338 | 79019 | 82 |
| 04 February 2024 | 104870 | 81950 | 78 |
| 02 June 2024 | 107406 | 81229 | 76 |
| 29 September 2024 | 109566 | 82051 | 75 |
As of 29 September 2024, 31,308 arrivals from Ukraine were living in private accommodations, where 13,693 hosts were in receipt of Accommodation Recognition Payment (ARP) for accommodating people from Ukraine. Additional information on hosts and arrivals, such as age bands and sex, can be found in Table 5.
The figures for ARP may also include accommodation obtained via the 'Offer a Home' scheme, Irish Red Cross (IRC) pledges and privately arranged accommodation. ARP is available to any host that applies. As of 03 October 2024, 21,497 arrivals from Ukraine were living in local authorities/IRC/DCEDIY pledged accommodation of which 9,228 were living in accommodation under the 'Offer a Home' scheme.
Table 6 focuses on active welfare claims broken down by 'Working Age Income Supports', 'Child Benefits' and 'Other'. Please note that data is preliminary and subject to change as additional data becomes available, particularly for the most recent week reported.
Table 7 shows that for the 22,943 persons with earnings from employment, the mean weekly earnings in September 2024 were €492 (based on CSO methodology - see Background Notes). The most common sector of employment was Wholesale, Transport and Accommodation at 45%.
(NOTE: for official statistics on earnings data please see the Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) and Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources 2023 (EAADS).)
Table 8 shows changes in employments, where a person can have more than one employment.
Since 11 April 2022, Intreo Public Employment Services (of the DSP) have been arranging employment support events for arrivals from Ukraine and, as of 29 September 2024, those events have been attended by 46,668 arrivals.
The previous occupation of those arrivals from Ukraine are shown in Table 9. ‘Professionals’ were the largest broad group among the classification listed of the 21,109 persons having recorded work history, with 31% (or 6,605 persons).
Of the persons that attended Intreo events, 56% were noted with English language proficiency being a challenge in securing employment, see Table 10.
Of the 30,507 persons where the highest level of education was recorded, 60% had achieved an NFQ level equivalent to 7 or higher, see Table 11.
The marital status of arrivals from Ukraine is shown in Table 12. Of all arrivals to date aged 18 and over, 62% of males and 48% of females were married or cohabiting. Note the martial status data was originally sourced from the Department of Social Protection but for data since the 19 March 2023 it incorporates Temporary Protection Directive data from the Department of Justice.
Table 13 shows that during September 2024, 906 children who were Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection were in in the NCS and 976 children were in the ECCE Scheme, while 233 children were in both the NCS and ECCE.
Table 14 shows that as of as of 14 October 2024 for primary and 07 October 2024 for post primary, 17,562 Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection from Ukraine have enrolled in schools in the academic year 2024/25, with 60% of these in primary schools and the remaining 40% in secondary schools. Cork has the highest number of children enrolled in primary schools at 1,050, while Dublin has the highest number of children enrolled in secondary schools at 809. Monaghan has the lowest number of children enrolled in both primary and secondary schools.
Table 15a focuses on primary school enrolments by classes while Table 15b provides a breakdown on secondary school enrolments by year within the junior and senior cycles.
In this release, of the 17,562 arrivals from Ukraine that enrolled in schools, 57 had their PPSN registered on or after the 08 August 2024 and were successfully linked to Department of Social Protection administrative data using a pseudonymised Protected Identifier Key (PIK). For further information on the data sources, linking procedures and definitions of this report, see Background Notes. Table 16 shows that average time between the allocation of a PPSN on or after the 08 August 2024 to enrolment in primary or secondary school was under three weeks.
Table 17 shows a breakdown of the school enrolments by age as of 14 October 2024 for primary and 07 October 2024 for post primary education.
Table 18 shows that there were 10,274 arrivals enrolled in further education and training courses on the 01 October 2024, of which 6,636 enrolled in further education English language courses.
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (23 October 2024) released Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland Series 14.
In the wake of the invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, the CSO created an Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland series of releases to provide insights into Ireland’s response to the Ukrainian crisis. This release, the fourteenth in the series, includes an analysis of Ukrainian arrivals who are availing of support and services from the Department of Social Protection (DSP); as well as providing insights into primary and secondary school enrolments overseen by the Department of Education; and enrolments in further education and training based on data provided by SOLAS. Also included is an experimental measure of arrivals from Ukraine that were still administratively active after 30 June 2024, incorporating PAYE Modernisation (PMOD), DSP, SOLAS, and Pobal data. Furthermore, information on barriers to work, previous and current employment, and education level is included in the release.
Commenting on the release, Dylan Morrissey, Statistician, said: "As of 29 September 2024, 109,566 PPSNs were issued to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BoTP) from Ukraine. Of these BoTPs from Ukraine who were given a PPSN, 75% had activity in administrative data after 30 June 2024, based on data currently available to the CSO.
Women and men aged 20 years and over, made up 46% and 24% of arrivals respectively, while 30% were people aged under 20 years.
More than half of the 46,668 BoTPs who attended an Intreo employment support event noted that English language proficiency was a challenge in securing employment.
Mapping Arrivals to Locations
There are two maps in this release based on mapping 104,543 individuals, or 95% of arrivals, to a location within Ireland. These maps are based on the local post office address as per the process through which arrivals were seeking assistance from the Department of Social Protection or, if available, the arrivals' residential address where an Accommodation Recognition Payment is payable to the host of the residence. Map 1 is a count of arrivals by Local Electoral Area (LEA), and Map 2 is the rate of arrivals by LEA (per 100 of the Census 2022 de facto population). Kenmare in Co. Kerry had the highest number of associated arrivals from Ukraine at 2,783.
Our analysis also shows that the rate per 100 of the population ranges across all LEAs in the country from 0.24% to 11.43%. The LEA with the highest rate was Ennistimon in Co. Clare."