Trespass laws preventing Travellers from practising lifestyle, report says
Trespass legislation which “prevents Travellers from practising their nomadic lifestyle” should be repealed, according to the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights.
It is one of a series of recommendations in a memorandum on the human rights of Travellers and Roma in Ireland which was published by commissioner Michael O’Flaherty on Tuesday.
The Irish human rights lawyer took over the role in April last year, and met Traveller and Roma representatives in Dublin and Limerick in October.
The 2001 Trespass Legislation and the Housing Miscellaneous Acts of 1992 and 2002 still make it a criminal offence to trespass on any land which is private or publicly owned.
Travellers who breach the requirements of these laws face eviction and possibly imprisonment, and their trailers can be impounded.
In many places, boulders have been erected by the local authorities in what used to be traditional halting sites for…
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