Over €1.2m collected in Kildare parking fines last year
Massive jump between 2023 and 2024
Kildare County Council earned over €1.2m in parking fines last year compared to €877,820 the year before.
Figures released by Kildare County Council show that €390,965 has been collected from January up to April 11 of this year.
The revenue received by the local authority for parking fines was €809,820 in 2022, €877,695 in 2023 and €1,206,270 in 2024.
The increase in revenue in 2024 can be attributed to an increase number of fines issued. The number of parking tickets issued by the council was 14,178 in 2022, 19,027 in 2023, 27,275 in 2024 and 8,014 from January 2025 to April 11.
The total of successful appeals for 2022 was 1,432 while 1,698 appeals were approved in 2023. In 2024 there were 2,675 successful appeals. So far this year, they number 618.