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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 11, 2019

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor E. Higgins

To ask the Chief Executive for the number of parking fines issued by traffic wardens to drivers parking in disabled parking bays in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 to date. 

REPLY:

The following are the number of parking fines issued in respect of drivers parking in disabled parking bays:

2017 - 215

2018 - 182

2019 - 111 ( To date)

The Council introduced a text alert messaging service at Disabled Parking Bays in Lucan and Rathfarnham Villages in 2018.  This service affords members of the public opportunity to text a dedicated Mobile Phone Number if they notice a vehicle parked illegally in a disabled parking bay, to which a traffic warden is dispatched as soon as practicable.

This text alert system has reduced the number of illegal vehicles parked in disabled parking bays considerably.