Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 145: To ask the Minister for Transport the charge that applies to each of the on-the-spot fine categories. [11538/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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A fine of €60 is prescribed under the present on-the-spot fine system for offences relating to the carrying on a vehicle of an insurance disc, display of motor tax disc, maximum weights or breach of requirements at stop sign and line, yield sign and line and at traffic lights.

A fine of €25 is prescribed for contravention of requirements relating to centre of roadway lines, continuous and broken, merging and diverging lines, box junctions, driving in bus lanes, defective tyres, stopping or parking during a clearway period on a part of a roadway which is a clearway and parking on a bus lane.

The following offences all carry a prescribed fine of €19: contravening a parking by-law made by a road authority; contravening a regulation prohibiting or restricting the parking of a mechanically propelled vehicle; contravening a car park by-law made by a road authority; breach of the prohibition on a street service vehicle from standing for hire at a place in the area in respect of which the by-law or rule is made other than an appointed stand; the stopping or parking of an omnibus at a stopping place or stand; and illegal parking by vehicles at a bus stopping place or stand.

I propose to apply a new fixed charge system for a range of road traffic offences shortly.