A new unit is being established in the Department of Justice to process the 11,000 residency claims from the immigrant parents of Irish-born children.
A total of 150 staff from other Government Departments will be transferred to the new unit for a year. It is hoped all cases will be dealt with during this period. It had been the practice in recent years to grant such immigrants residency rights.
However, this changed with a Supreme Court ruling last January that non-national parents of Irish-born children did not have an automatic right to remain in the State.
"In order to implement the Government policy in relation to the outstanding cases, a unit is being established in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to process these cases," a Department spokeswoman said.
"The staff involved are being drawn from across the civil service, and the Department of Finance is making the necessary arrangements for the transfer.
"They will be assigned to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform for a period of one year, during which time all outstanding cases will be processed."
Processing the 11,000 cases was suspended while the Government considered the implications of the Supreme Court judgment. No further claims of this type have been accepted since mid-February.
In July, the Government announced that the outstanding applications from immigrant parents of Irish-born children would be subject to "individual consideration".