Industry overhaul could see end to hospital clamping

The practice of clamping vehicles outside hospitals would be scrapped while clampers would have to engage in an appeals process under proposals to overhaul the industry.

A report submitted to the transport minister by an Oireachtas committee also calls for clamping on private property to be regulated in the same way as local authority clamping, with similar fees to apply.

It calls for a ban on the clamping of vehicles in “sensitive locations” such as hospital car parks and would also allow clamping companies to access some information on the National Vehicle Register.