A group of about 100 asylum-seekers accommodated in a house in south Co Dublin, who were given a day's notice on Thursday to move to accommodation in north Co Dublin, have now been accommodated locally.
The group, including 20 children under 18 months old, were told they would have to move from Kilmarnock House on Military Road in Killiney, where they had been for up to a year, to Balseskin, near Ballymun.
This followed an inspection of their accommodation by the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA), which found the accommodation to be sub-standard, with safety concerns.
Following expressions of concern from the asylum-seekers, as well as from the Southside Partnership which helps asylum-seekers integrate locally, the RIA said yesterday that accommodation had been secured in Dún Laoghaire and Stillorgan, within seven miles of Killiney.
Ms Aileen O'Brien, of the Southside Partnership, said the residents were upset at having to move, but relieved not to be moving to Balseskin, some 15 miles across the city.
"Some have been moved five times in the past year. They have been told they can move back in in two to three weeks," she said.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Justice said a decision had been made to accommodate the asylum-seekers locally "essentially because that's where they wanted to stay".
