Barry Whyte
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217 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Barry Whyte’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Almost one hundred and forty-three thousand vehicles were clamped last year.
That's an increase of eighteen percent in two years.
Dublin City Council recorded almost eighty-nine thousand clamps across twenty twenty-four and twenty twenty-five, while APCOA, one of the biggest clamping companies, clamped more than one hundred and twenty-three thousand vehicles nationwide in those two years.
So that's more than two hundred and twelve thousand.
And clamps been uh uh between those two uh operators in two years.
But what's particularly striking is the number of motorists who actually successfully appeal.
More than twenty one thousand first stage appeals were made nationwide last year, with almost a quarter succeeding.
If that appeal is rejected, motorists can then go to an independent appeals officer administered by the National Transport Authority.
Almost half of those second stage appeals succeed.
Last year, and with APCOA so far this year, fifty-four percent of cases decided at that stage have also resulted in motors being refunded.
So fifty-four percent of people getting their money back.
That's quite significant.
And I spoke to two people, Podrick Wilson McCarthy and Clara Murphy, who told me they've both they think they were both unfairly clamped by APCOA recently.
A hundred and twenty five euro
seriously costly just for
Human error and it was a good thing.
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I try to we can produce estimates, Claire, but because neither APCOA nor the regulator could tell me exactly how much APCOA or Dublin City Council generates from clamp release charges.
Based on Dublin City Council's figures and excluding more than seven thousand three hundred clamps excuse me, um seven thousand three hundred clamps that were illegally removed or destroyed.
So actually one in ten, eight percent of clamps are actually removed illegally or destroyed.
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