Una Mullally: Removing tents and letting them pop back up is not a strategy. Using vacant office blocks might be

Vulnerable people are being woken up, presented with vague information, having their tents and makeshift bedding taken and destroyed, and finding themselves shuttled to threadbare accommodation. Photograph: Leah Farrell/© RollingNews.ie

Moving people pillar to post and waiting for more tents to pop up again is not a strategy. It’s not even anything approaching necessary, fair, humane, appropriate, empathetic, realistic or satisfactory. And yet, on we go.Last Thursday morning, 163 asylum seekers were moved from the banks of the Grand Canal. By Friday morning, more were in situ again. This is unacceptable, and not because it’s unsightly or inconvenient, but because the State has laws to uphold.

“The laws of our land must always be upheld and we cannot have unsafe and illegal encampments in our cities or towns,”on May 1st, as though he were an opposition politician and not the Tánaiste – and as though vulnerable people who have nowhere to go and nowhere to sleep are somehow at fault. Article 1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union declares “Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected.

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