Let’s see the proper enforcement of disabled parking space usage to go with this. What’s the point of a permit if the holder can’t use a space that has been taken by someone not entitled to occupy the space?

This is a waste, unless rules are enforced there is no point. It can take two hours just to get Aisling, my wife, ready to go visit the town in Wexford. When we get there you can be sure someone ‘is just’ packing shopping, at ATM, picking up take away or waiting on someone, or parking lights are On to make it ok or builders van had no were else to park etc etc. I have asked parking attendant to stick a ticket on offenders but he declined because they ‘might’ have a disability or that it was out side his patrol area. I’ve asked a Guard to stop a car parking (on double yellows) behind our van (need space for rear entry/exit) but the guard didn’t get a chance to catch the driver!
I took to offering stubborn offenders if they would be interested in a disability so they could qualify for a permit in the future… This is quite an aggressive approach but no other avenue offers any satisfaction and I hope it’s not in vain and they have some consideration in the future. Nothing worse than having to park the other end of the town and wheel Aisling in the wind and the rain to get to the chemist…
Wider spaces will be useful to side entry cars but to a few drivers it will always be another parking space to squeeze into!

Now this is good news at least, but one thing puzzles me.

The size of the current permit is size just right, and allows everyone around to see it clearly. Yet, they want to make it smaller, credit card size. So now it will be less recognisable, and smaller.

Then, while they are on the subject of parking permits and stuff, why can’t they solve the big problem of replacing the pink piece of paper that supposed to last 10 years, joke of a driving licence and replace that with a credit card sized one.

The government has no priority at all, they listen to know one, and make new rules without enforcing old laws.

When are they going to tackle the clampers, the the rules they make up whether you have a parking permit or not.

Good move by Enda there, moving Leo on to a job where nothing could possibly go wrong………….*ducks for cover*

To quote from the article…
while local authorities will also be given the right to impose time restrictions on the amount of time for which cars can remain in a disabled parking bay

Right ok, so a disabled person now has a time restriction they have to conform to when out doing there shopping?
For the love of God that is messed up.

I’ve often wondered, what were the parking arrangements like at the special Olympics?

Note: I intend this as both a serious question with a light hearted slant and by no way intend to offend people with disabilities.

Will there be fines on the families of disabled people who find it ‘okay’ to use the permit when they don’t have a disabled person with them and are just taking advantage? I currently see a family in my own town that take a family members permit, put it in their own car, then go off to do shopping, sometimes ignoring vehicles who have a disabled passenger on board. I use this as an example as I have never heard of anyone being punished for this.
The abuse of disabled parking spaces angers me, even though it doesn’t affect me, but I do know people it affects. Luckily our local traffic wardens aren’t so lenient on people just ‘pulling in’ for a minute at the ATM. On occasions I have seen them help disabled people get to ATMs, shops etc. from a parking space far away from a blocked disabled parking space, which are few and far between in a small town. Not all traffic wardens are bad, it seems to depend on the town councils on how strict these rules are implemented, and who gets off.

The credit card size is to small. The Doctors will still sign forms for there friends and family, who will inspect the new system ? How much will the new cards cost for the disabled person ?