Two motorists have run up parking fines of more than €11,000 each in one local authority area.
Fingal County Council said ten individuals between them owed the council more than €56,000 for unpaid parking tickets.
An anonymised list of the top ten offenders shows that one person has outstanding debts of €11,680 while another has run up fines totalling €11,600.
Motorists running up four figure sums in unpaid parking fines did not only happen in Fingal however, but right across Dublin.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council said that ten people owed them sums of between €2,000 and €8,000 in fines.
The single worst offender in that area had unpaid parking tickets worth €7,640 closely followed by another with €7,520.
The council said they had collected a total of €1.16 million in fines last year with a payment rate of 84%.
The rate of fine payment was lower in South Dublin County Council where only 73% of tickets were paid.
That council said that the ten most brazen illegal parkers in their area had accumulated debts of around €42,000.
That included one person who owed €8,827 and another who had amassed tickets with a combined value of €7,245.
South Dublin County Council said they had collected around €361,000 in parking fines last year.
They said a private contractor looked after all of their parking services including enforcement.
An information note said: “That contractor employs traffic wardens from Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm”.
“For the most part, they patrol the pay and display areas in the villages around the county. They issue tickets in relation to illegal and offences contrary to … parking regulations,” the noted added.
Fingal County Council said that their collection rate for parking fine tickets for last year was 78%.
They said a total of €515,478 was collected from fines in 2024 with pay and display schemes operating in all the main towns in the local authority area.
“Parking wardens enforce pay parking and other parking regulations in all these areas. This includes identifying and ticketing illegally parked vehicles,” a note said.
“There are currently [six] parking wardens in total for the county, with [two] parking wardens specifically allocated to patrol non-pay and Display locations for illegally parked vehicles,” it added.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council said they did not have a 24/7 countywide parking enforcement service and that it generally operated Monday to Saturday from 8am to 7pm.
They said no clamping was carried out in their region unlike in the Dublin City Council area.
Among the offences targeted by them were non-payment for parking spaces, parking on double-yellow lines or in bus lanes, as well as the abuse of spaces for people with disabilities.
Reporting by Ken Foxe
