To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to outline the arrangements for traffic wardens to enforce parking penalties in loading bays during working days but outside working hours.

My Department’s contract with NSL enables parking enforcement of loading bays to be carried out at different times with Traffic Attendants being deployed from Monday to Saturday between 7.45am and 6.30pm. A reduced level of service is provided on Sundays between 1.00pm and 6.30pm. A reduced level of service is also provided in Belfast from Tuesday to Saturday between 6.30pm and 10.30pm.

Parking restrictions, including loading bays that are continuously operational (i.e. 24 hours per day, 7 days per week), are not enforced by my Department’s parking enforcement service outside the above working hours.