Council admits it has performance target for wardens

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has strenuously denied that it operates a quota system for traffic wardens but admits it has a “performance target”.

It said the performance target financially penalises the private company which operates its parking enforcement system if a certain number of parking tickets are not issued per year.

It is one of the first instances that a local authority has publicly confessed to operating a system whereby private firms contracted to oversee parking on public roads are incentivised to issue a certain number of tickets.