Three Traveller families who were accommodated in Bed and Breakfast accommodation following their eviction from a closed halting site in Woodland Park in Dundalk last month have been told to leave that B&B.
Spokesperson for the families, Rebecca Quinn, said alternative accommodation has been found for tonight for the families, which is being paid for by Louth County Council.
RTÉ contacted the B&B involved, querying why the three families had been asked to leave, and it was given the following written response:
"Accommodation is given here to guests depending on availability; if we do not have suitable accommodation available we cannot provide it."
Ms Quinn said one of the families has been staying in the B&B in question since their eviction from Woodland Park in January. They have a five-month-old child.
A second family had been staying with family in Mullingar until recently, when Louth County Council agreed to organise the emergency B&B accommodation for them in Dundalk where their two children attend school.
Prior to this the children had been out of school since the eviction.
Ms Quinn said the third family was among those living in the makeshift illegal site off the Inner Relief Road in Dundalk, until Louth County Council recently agreed to provide them with emergency B&B accommodation.
Five families remain in B&Bs paid for by the council.
Solicitor for the families Eleanor Kelly has written to the council’s solicitor, querying why the three families were asked to leave the B&B and requesting alternative accommodation.
In a statement Louth County Council said it "did not terminate the B&B accommodation of any Traveller families" and " it is working with the families concerned to re-accommodate them in both short and long term solutions."
It added that a number of families have also been made offers of social housing and that these were currently being processed.
