Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 8 March 2007
203 Ms Shortall asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 1 March 2007, if parking regulations apply to parking on footpaths which are situated on a road which is in the charge of a local authority but where the footpaths themselves are not in the charge of the local authority. [9277/07]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe remit of the Minister for Transport and of the road traffic and parking regulations made under the Road Traffic Acts 1961-2006 to prohibit the parking of vehicles on footpaths only apply to footpaths on public roads. Areas adjacent to public roads or footpaths that are in private ownership such as, for example, a forecourt area in front of a shop, are not subject to road traffic law as regards parking and the owners or occupiers of such property can reserve parking in that private area for their own purposes. The road traffic and parking regulations (article 13(2) of S.I. No. 182 of 1997) permit a vehicle to be driven along or across a footway (i.e. a public road footpath) for the purpose of access to or egress from a place adjacent to the footway and this would include a private forecourt area in the example that I referred to.
