Pat O'Neill (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I accept the points the Minister has made. There is no dispute in regard to the statutory areas and parking in that they are defined in terms of double yellow or single yellow lines or areas where motorists can park. The issue arises in non-statutory areas such as hotel car parks and parking outside schools where somebody makes a decision that a motorist is illegally parked. A silly example of that would be if I were to go into a hotel or a supermarket and buy a cup of coffee at 8 a. m. but leave my car parked on the premises for 24 hours. Would that purchase entitle me to park outside the premises for 24 hours? Who would make a decision that a person has parked outside a premises for more than three hours and that the car should be clamped?