Emergency accommodation for the survivors of the Carrickmines fire has been blocked by local residents.

Members of the South Dublin community have used cars and heavy machinery to cut off access to a site at Glenamuck Cottages close to the site of Saturday's fatal fire, which claimed the lives of five adults and five children.

Local residents have objected to the temporary accommodation, saying there needs to be permanent accommodation instead.

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council says it gave permission for a family of 15 to move on to a temporary halting site on Council-owned lands at the end of Rockville Drive, off Glenamuck Road, on Thursday.

A separate site at a different location has also been identified to house families on a permanent basis, but it will not be ready for eight months.

The Southside Travellers Action Group says the surviving families want to be accommodated together on a plot of land where they can all live.

Director of the group, Geraldine Dunne, says this is a huge setback for these families given the ordeal they have already been through:

Environment Minister Alan Kelly says a blockade of the site is "shameful and disturbing":

Sue Fitzpatrick lives nearby - she disagrees with the protestors and thinks the temporary halting site should be allowed to go ahead:

Investigators are still trying to establish the cause of the blaze in the early hours of Saturday.

Books of condolence for the families and friends of the victims of the Carrickmines tragedy have been opened by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council today.