Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans he has to regulate vehicle clamping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52646/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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In line with the commitment in the Programme for Government to regulate the vehicle clamping industry, I presented a discussion document to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht in which I outlined the principal issues to be addressed in regulating the industry, my proposals on the shape of appropriate legislation and invited their views. The Committee responded to me in a comprehensive report which contained a number of recommendations, many of which I hope to include in the resulting legislation.  Preparation of the General Scheme of a Bill is being discussed with the Attorney General's Office and it is hoped that the Bill will be published and introduced in the Oireachtas in the first half of 2013.