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.
Early iterations of the 'Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland' series of releases focused on the cumulative total of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BoTP). From Series 16 onwards, this release has focused on the estimated cohort present in the country, using experimental methodology based on recent activity in administrative data as an indicator to whether individuals are still present in the State. This recent administrative activity count is deemed more appropriate as some arrivals may have subsequently left the State. As of 23 June 2026, the count of BoTPs with activity in administrative data after 31 March 2026 was 84,739, while the cumulative total of PPSNs issued to BoTPs to date was 122,636.
Note that the 122,636 figure refers to the cumulative total of arrivals from Ukraine, and who were issued a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN). This figure does not include 4,362 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 (CSO) in the context of future releases in the Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland series.
As of 23 June 2026, of the 122,636 PPSNs issued to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BoTPs) from Ukraine, 69% or 84,739 had activity in administrative data after 31 March 2026, based on data currently available to the CSO.
Of the 84,739 individuals with recent activity in administrative data, women and men aged 20 years and over, made up 45% and 29% respectively of arrivals, while 26% were people aged under 20 years. Of all arrivals to date aged 18 years and over, 57% of males and 46% of females were married or cohabiting.
In May 2026, 31,069 arrivals had earnings from employment, where their average weekly earnings were €573. The most common sector of employment was in Accommodation & Food Service activities at 23%.
As of 23 June 2026, 55,350 arrivals had attended an employment support event arranged by Intreo Public Employment Services. Of those, 52% (or 28,844 people) noted that English language proficiency was a challenge in securing employment.
Of the 55,350 arrivals that attended an Intreo event, 24,774 had recorded previous occupations, with Professionals being the largest group at 29% (or 7,155 people). Of the 34,801 people where the highest level of education was recorded, 58% (or 20,132 people) had achieved a qualification equivalent to National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 or higher.
There were 10,988 arrivals enrolled in further education and training courses on 01 June 2026, of which 7,668 were enrolled in further education English language courses.
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 people 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 people 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 1 and 2 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.
In this release Tables 7 and 8 have been expanded to single NACE categories where possible to provide more detail.
Table 1 shows the age and sex breakdown of arrivals as of 23 June 2026. Of the 84,739 individuals with activity in administrative data after 31 March 2026, women and men aged 20 and over, account for 45% and 29% respectively of this cohort to date, while individuals aged 0-19 (both male and female) account for 26%.
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 1 & 2 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, 577 persons had such an activity in the available data during April 2026, while an additional 84,162 persons had activity in the selected administrative data sources after 30 April 2026. Combining these two groups together, 69% of BoTPs had recent administrative data activity, i.e., activity after the 31 March 2026, also see Background Notes.
The rate of administrative activity after 31 March 2026 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.
| Date | Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection from Ukraine to date | Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection with recent activity in administrative data | % of BoTPs with recent activity in administrative data |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02 June 2024 | 107406 | 81229 | 76 |
| 29 September 2024 | 109566 | 82051 | 75 |
| 02 February 2025 | 112189 | 79830 | 71 |
| 03 June 2025 | 113917 | 80031 | 70 |
| 03 November 2025 | 119043 | 83594 | 70 |
| 03 February 2026 | 121048 | 84100 | 69 |
| 23 June 2026 | 122636 | 84739 | 69 |
Based on the 84,739 arrivals with recent activity in administrative data, 97% or 82,543 individuals could be mapped to an LEA. The LEA mapping of arrivals is based on either the local post office address through which arrivals 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 82,543 mapped records as of 23 June 2026 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 mapped to this LEA.
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 23 June 2026. The rate ranges from 0.2% to 7.1% in LEAs across the country.
Figure 2 shows the total number of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (based on PPSN allocations) from Ukraine to Ireland for the week ending 21 June 2026 was 122,636. This is an increase of 418 compared to four weeks earlier (24 May 2026).
As of 23 June 2026, 43,541 arrivals from Ukraine were living in private accommodations, where 18,545 hosts were in receipt of the 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 4.
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 25 June 2026, 24,404 arrivals from Ukraine were living in local authorities/IRC/DJHAM pledged accommodation of which 10,075 were living in accommodation under the 'Offer a Home' scheme.
Tables 5 and 6 focus on active welfare claims broken down by 'Working Age Income Supports', 'Child Benefits' and 'Other'. Please note that data are preliminary and subject to change as additional data becomes available, particularly for the most recent week reported.
Table 7 shows that for the 31,069 persons with earnings from employment, the mean weekly earnings in May 2026 were €573 (based on CSO methodology - see Background Notes). The most common sector of employment was Accommodation & Food Service activities at 23%. Of those employed, 55%, or 16,941 were female, while 45%, or 14,128, were male. 21% of those employed were under 25 years of age.
(NOTE: for official statistics on earnings data please see Earnings and Labour Costs Q3 2025 (Final) Q4 2025 (Preliminary Estimates))
Table 8 shows changes in employments, where a person can have more than one employment.
| Date | Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (A) | Industry (B,C,D,E) | Construction (F) | Wholesale, Transport and Accommodation (G,H,I) | ICT, Scientific and Recreation (J,M,R) | Financial, Real Estate, Administrative (K,L,N,S) | Public Service, Education and Health (O,P,Q) | Number of persons with earnings from employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | 406 | 4916 | 1750 | 12270 | 1570 | 4237 | 4166 | 29315 |
| December 2025 | 426 | 5011 | 1753 | 12311 | 1560 | 4248 | 4153 | 29462 |
| January 2026 | 410 | 5063 | 1790 | 12277 | 1571 | 4214 | 4251 | 29576 |
| February 2026 | 417 | 5149 | 1833 | 12144 | 1616 | 4292 | 4293 | 29744 |
| March 2026 | 434 | 5224 | 1872 | 12544 | 1631 | 4380 | 4360 | 30445 |
| April 2026 | 436 | 5265 | 1869 | 12869 | 1695 | 4469 | 4383 | 30986 |
| May 2026 | 421 | 5296 | 1858 | 12939 | 1711 | 4509 | 4335 | 31069 |
Since 11 April 2022, Intreo Public Employment Services (of the DSP) have been arranging employment support events for arrivals from Ukraine and, as of 23 June 2026, those events have been attended by 55,350 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 24,774 persons having recorded work history, with 29% (or 7,155 persons).
Of the persons that attended Intreo events, 52% were noted with English language proficiency being a challenge in securing employment, see Table 10.
Of the 34,801 persons where the highest level of education was recorded, 58% had achieved an NFQ level equivalent to 7 or higher, see Table 11.
The marital status of arrivals from Ukraine is shown in Figure 4 and Table 12. Of all arrivals to date aged 18 and over, 57% of males and 46% of females were married or cohabiting. Note the martial status data was originally sourced from the Department of Social Protection but for data since 19 March 2023 it incorporates Temporary Protection Directive data from the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration.
| Date | Single - never married | Married or cohabiting | Divorced, widowed, and other relationship status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Male | 33 | 57 | 10 |
| Female | 26 | 46 | 28 |
Table 13 shows that during May 2026, 1,421 children who were Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection were in the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) and 893 children were in the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Scheme, while 325 children were in both the NCS and ECCE.
Table 14 shows that as of as of 22 June 2026 for primary education enrolments, and 14 May 2026 for secondary enrolments, 17,385 Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection from Ukraine have enrolled in schools in the academic year 2025/26, with 59% of these in primary schools and the remaining 41% in secondary schools. Donegal and Dublin had the highest number of children enrolled in primary schools at 972 and Dublin had the highest number of children enrolled in secondary schools at 804. Monaghan had 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 17,385 arrivals from Ukraine that enrolled in schools, 402 had their PPSN registered on or after 04 August 2025 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 04 August 2025 to enrolment in primary or secondary school was under six weeks.
Table 17 shows a breakdown of school enrolments of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection by age for the academic year 2025/26.
Table 18 shows that there were 10,988 arrivals enrolled in further education and training courses on 01 June 2026, of which 7,668 enrolled in further education English language courses.
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (07 July 2026) published Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland Series 19.
In the wake of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the CSO created an Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland series of releases to provide insights into Ireland’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This release, the nineteenth 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 31 March 2026, 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 23 June 2026, 84,739, or 69% of the 122,636 Personal Public Service Numbers (PPSNs) issued to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BoTPs) from Ukraine had recent activity in administrative data after 31 March 2026, based on data currently available to the CSO.
Of the 84,739 individuals, women and men aged 20 years and over, made up 45% and 29% of arrivals respectively, while 26% were people aged under 20 years.
In May 2026, 31,069 BoTPs had earnings from employment, where their mean weekly earnings were €573. The most common sector of employment was in Accommodation & Food Service activities at 23%.
More than half of the 55,350 BoTPs who attended an Intreo employment support event noted that English language proficiency was a challenge in securing employment. Of the 10,988 arrivals enrolled in further education and training courses with Solas on 01 June 2026, 7,668 were enrolled in further education English language courses.
Mapping Arrivals to Locations
There are two maps in this release that are based on mapping the 82,543 individuals, or 97% of arrivals with recent activity in administrative data, 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 DSP 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 1,930 people.
Our analysis also shows that the rate per 100 of the population ranges across all LEAs in the country from 0.2% to 7.1%. The LEA with the highest rate was Kenmare in Co. Kerry."