With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 24, 25 and 26 together.
In the year 1978 there were 42,641 prosecutions in respect of parking offences in the Dublin metropolitan area excluding Dún Laoghaire and Bray. Statistics are not compiled of revenue from court fines imposed for particular categories of road traffic offences.
Statistics of fine-on-the-spot notices issued for parking offences in the area mentioned, and of the revenue which accrued from the notices, in each of the last five years are set out in a tabular statement which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
The costs of processing prosecutions in respect of parking offences and of issuing fine-on-the-spot notices and reminders are not available and could not be compiled except at the expense of more important work.
The following is the statement:
Year
|
Number of fine- on-the-spot notices for parking offences
|
Amounts Collected
|
|
|
£
|
1974
|
235,721
|
219,048.13
|
1975
|
223,309
|
213,063.85
|
1976
|
233,813
|
194,594.90
|
1977
|
228,278
|
225,276.84
|
1978
|
172,767
|
238,882.40
|