Cork City parking disc fee increase
Cork Corporation sought Garda bye-laws to raise the parking disc fee from 5p to 10p; the increase did not require referral to the National Prices Commission.
asked the Minister for the Environment if he is aware that the price of parking discs in Cork city is to go up by 100 per cent in the near future; if application has to be made to the National Prices Commission; and, if so, if they have sanctioned this increase.
Comment on this
I have been informed by Cork Corporation that they have asked the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána to make bye-laws providing for an increase in the disc parking fee from the present charge of 5p to 10p. I am further advised that in accordance with the provisions of section 5 (a) of the Prices Act, 1958, the proposal of Cork Corporation to increase the disc parking fee need not be referred to the National Prices Commission.