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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

QUESTION NO. 13

QUESTION: Councillor V. Casserly

To ask the manager is there information available on the misuse of accessible parking bays text alert system. Can we identify how many texts have been received or how many fines given for the misuse of these bays

REPLY:

In 2018, the Council introduced a text alert messaging service in Lucan and Rathfarnham Villages which are areas covered for Pay & Display parking restrictions and prohibitions in the Council's Control of Parking ByeLaws.   There is a fee associated with the managment of this service.

This text alert messaging 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.

The number of calls received on the text alert system are set out as follows

2022 : 13

YTD 2023 : 5

Details of the fines issued countywide for illegally parking in disabled bays are set out as follows: 

2022 :  192

YTD 2023 : 73