asked the Minister for Justice if he will take steps to ensure that itinerants will not be permitted to establish encampments on the verge of trunk roads.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Encampments of Itinerants.
I have asked the Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána to take all possible steps to prevent obstruction of the roads by itinerants' encampments.
May I ask the Minister if his attention has been directed to the distinction between by-roads and trunk roads? The poor itinerants have to live like the rest of us but the dangers attendant on their camping beside a road, involving danger to their children who run about the encampment and involving danger to the drivers of motor vehicles as a result of their wandering live stock, are far greater on the trunk road than on the by-road.
Mr. Boland
I have pointed that out to the Commissioner.