asked the Minister for Local Government if he is aware that No Parking signs have been erected outside the church on the south side of Terenure Road East, Dublin; and if he will examine the possibility of permitting parking to allow persons attending weddings, funerals and other such church functions to use the main entrance to the church, to facilitate parents collecting their children from the national school which is situated beside the church, and to facilitate traders in the immediate vicinity.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Parking Regulations.
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The Dublin Parking Bye-laws, 1962, which will come into operation shortly, will not materially alter the parking restrictions applying to this road. While there are restrictions, unlimited as to time, on short sections of the road adjoining the traffic lights and the road junctions, and at the bus stop, parking will be permitted on the remainder of the south side of the road where the church and school are situated but on week days it will be limited to one hour between the hours of 8.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. The bye-laws will not prohibit the stopping of vehicles to take up or set down passengers or to load or unload goods, except within 30 feet of the road junctions. I understand that "No Parking" signs were put in error on the signposts outside the church and that the matter has now been rectified.
Would the Minister not agree that the parking facilities in the city of Dublin are totally inadequate for the number of cars that have to be parked?
Everybody knows that.
Perhaps the Minister for Local Government will do something about it?
It is primarily a matter for the corporation.
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asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state in relation to the proposed new parking bye-laws (1) whether, when parking is permitted on one side only, all cars must face in the direction of the traffic; (2) whether cars for sale, at present parked on the roadway during the day, will have to be parked elsewhere; (3) whether existing mobile shops approved by the Dublin Corporation will have to be moved, and, if so, whether there is any provision for compensation; and (4) whether a car which has broken down cannot be pushed into the kerb in order to allow a mechanic to put it in working order; and, if not, what the driver should do.
I presume the question relates to the Dublin Parking Bye-laws, 1962. As regards (1) the bye-laws provide that, during lighting-up hours, a mechanically propelled vehicle parked parallel to the kerb must face in the direction in which traffic on the side of the street on which the vehicle is parked is required to proceed. Regarding (2), the bye-laws provide that, in a parking place specified as such in the bye-laws, a vehicle shall not be offered or displayed for sale. The bye-laws do not apply such a prohibition outside parking places, but of course the general law prohibiting obstruction applies. As regards (3), the bye-laws make no change in the existing provisions relating to mobile shops. With regard to (4), the bye-laws permit repairs to be carried out to a parked vehicle where it has been damaged or suffered a breakdown and it is necessary to carry out the repairs in order to remove the vehicle from the public road.
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asked the Minister for Local Government the approximate date on which the new parking plan for Dublin will come into operation.
The Dublin Parking Bye-laws, 1962, will come into operation when the prescribed public notice under Section 6 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961, is given by the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána. This notice will be given as soon as the Dublin Corporation and the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire have completed the erection of the necessary traffic signs. It is expected that this will have been done by the middle of March.
Could the Minister inform the House whether a person can be prosecuted for a violation of the "Stop" sign as now operating in most places in Dublin, rather than the "Yield" sign, since there is no indication that you can start again?
That does not arise on the Question.
That does not arise.
It is a "Stop" sign.
I know it is. I heard the Deputy say that.