Department of Integration at loggerheads with Kildare County Council over property

Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman had previously informed local representatives and locals in Kildare that the plan to host refugees in Ryevale House was 'consistent with planning law'. Picture: Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

A developer retained by the Department of Integration to accommodate 80 refugees on the site of a protected building has been served with an enforcement order by Kildare County Council.

The local authority issued the enforcement notice, calling for the conversion of protected structure Ryevale House in Leixlip into a multi-occupancy commercial building to be halted, and the building restored to its former state, on May 10.