Sinn Fein is calling on city management to find alternative accommodation for the ten remaining tenants in O'Devaney Gardens in Dublin.

Plans to demolish the empty blocks have been given the go-ahead and Dublin City Councillor Janice Boylan is also urging the Housing Manager to write a letter to the residents to confirm they would not be legally forced to move.

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Cllr Boylan said: "The ten remaining tenants have a right to want to remain in the area and community that they grew up in and reared families. Most of them don't even want to move but obviously they have to so we can start building on the land.

"With this in mind, I requested on numerous occasions that the housing management team meet with them and I received that commitment today.

"This meeting will take place during August and the report will be brought to the Dublin central area committee in September for us all to approve.

"I look forward to making sure this is passed. We can't lose sight of the fact that it is a detenanting programme and some of them don't or didn't ever want to move out of the area."

(CD/LM)