Seán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I received an e-mail from Irish Rail which disputes the fact that the bridge strikes are ad hoc occurrences involving, for example, some builder with a crane. I can get Irish Rail's statistics and look at them again, but it states it is not merely an ad hoc occurrence that happens because of a crane or something like that, and that there is more to it than that. I accept that Mr. Scallan's company is thorough about it and is not involved in that. Thankfully, it does not happen too frequently, but it does happen.

To get back to the permit system, at present there is a permit system which is enforced by Dublin City Council and the Garda. There is a joint policing committee in the north-central area of the city. It held a meeting last month which was taken up with this question of the enforcement.