The number of people unable to move out of direct provision after being granted permission to stay in Ireland has more than doubled since the start of the year.
Of the 20,500 adults and children currently in asylum seeker accommodation, 25 percent% already been granted refugee status.
The low numbers able to leave State accommodation is putting pressure on the already struggling International Protection Accommodation Service.
Integration Minister Roderic O'Gorman says his department is encouraging those who have been granted status to find alternative accommodation.
"we are asking people who have been granted status, and have remained in international protection accommodation for a significant period of time, we have mechanisms in there to support them in terms of living independently, but we are contacting them and asking them to avail of those mechanisms."
