Law is ‘draconian, repressive and anti-traveller,’ says group

LEGISLATION which allowed a district court judge impose prison terms on three travellers was yesterday described as “draconian, repressive and anti-traveller.”

Martin Collins of the Dublin-based Pavee Point organisation said the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002 must be repealed.

“The legislation is a blatant attack on the nomadic identity of travellers,” he said.