James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledged in my initial reply that the current process is cumbersome and takes up considerable court time. A review is being carried out as to how that can be streamlined to ensure that the process is much more straightforward and to reduce the opportunities for kicking the can down the road. We want to ensure people pay these fines and are not wasting court time. I am very much in agreement with the Deputy that we need to have a more streamlined process so that people cannot evade their responsibilities and that is what we are we are working on at the moment. As somebody whose sister is in a wheelchair, I understand only too well the consequences of illegal parking and blocking footpaths that he mentioned. It is often the same people who do this again and again. I assure him that the matter is being taken very seriously by the Minister, Deputy McEntee.

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