Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I shall pose a question. Let us use Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown as an example. The National Sports Campus around the corner from it has a significant number of employers near it. It and a number of other bodies in the area are actively interested in the development of a bus rapid transit route which would connect it up with the city centre. Let us assume a person went to Connolly Hospital and parked the car there and hopped on a bus for the National Sports Campus but that is not a good example as the person could walk to the National Sports Campus. Let us assume the person parked a car in Connolly Hospital and went off to do something else, as happens regularly in other parking locations across the city.

In doing that, this person has deprived a sick person of a parking space. Does the Deputy believe the hospital is entitled to clamp that person's vehicle? Does she think it should have the ability to clamp it?