Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will ask them to do that. I am embarrassed; I must apologise for the delay in responding to the Deputy. I will make sure that correspondence is replied to straight away.

Clamping being used as debt collection sounds totally inappropriate to me. I do not know whether it requires legislative or regulatory measures. I presume the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage is responsible so I will follow up and see. I ask the Deputy to forward the specific details. It would be useful to examine. If it is an example of bad practice, we will certainly look at that.

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