Up to 100 members of the Roma community, most of whom were camped on a roundabout off Dublin's M50, will be repatriated to Romania this afternoon having agreed to go home.
Some members of the group, speaking to The Irish Timesyesterday claimed they had been offered €40 each to return to Romania voluntarily.
Others, including independent interpreter Diana Kelly and the director of Traveller support organisation Pavee Point, Ronnie Fay, also said they had heard this account but a spokesman for the Garda strongly denied it.
He said there may be provision made to provide vouchers for food for their journey home today.
Some 70 members of the community were taken from their encampment on the roundabout in a Garda operation that began at 5am yesterday. They were bused to a reception centre at Balseskin near Dublin airport, where they spent the night.
A smaller number of about 30 refused to leave the motorway encampment on the Ballymun intersection yesterday morning. Efforts were being made late last night to persuade them to join this afternoon's flight from Dublin to northern Romania.
However, some on the roundabout said they would be resisting efforts to repatriate them.
Five members of the community remained last night at a derelict house on the Swords Road. Gardaí were also in talks with them in an effort to encourage them to take places on the flight.
Two children linked to the group in the Swords Road house are still in care. However, sources have indicated that they would most likely be returned by the HSE to their relatives if the family decides to return home.
Those who have already agreed to go back to Romania on the flight due to depart today were yesterday given clothes by the St Vincent de Paul and an anonymous donor. Romanian ambassador Silvia Stancu Davidoiu said those being repatriated would be "welcomed".
"They will be helped to find housing and work and return to normal life and hopefully they will be willing to benefit from this help."
Ms Fay, however, cited numerous European reports on discrimination against Roma in Romania, including the the European Commission on Racism and Intolerance's third report on Roma in Romania. Published last year it notes: "Members of the Roma community are still discriminated against in areas such as employment, education and access to public places, housing, and healthcare services."
It also highlights the fact that schools for Roma in Romania are still segregated.
"They all too often find themselves in schools of a distinctly lower standard. . . or placed in separate classrooms."
Ms Fay said the Government "must put in place a strategy on dealing with Roma coming here as there is no doubt more will come and there may well be another humanitarian crisis such as that at the M50".