Motorists in Dublin are paying millions in fines for illegal parking in the city.
In 2010, Dublin City Council collected €26m from parking metres, and €4.5m in fines for illegal parking in the city.
In the first four months of this year, 19,791 people paid €1.5m to have their cars de-clamped in Dublin.
Cars are most likely to be clamped on Jervis Street.
261 have been clamped there already this year - up until April.
Each clamp release fee costs €80 meaning €20,880 has been collected from that street alone in fines.
Shelbourne Road follows in second place, after 230 vehicles were clamped there already this year.
Dominick Street Lower, Wellington Quay and Ranelagh feature as the third, fourth and fifth clamping blackspots in the capital.
A total of 58,076 vehicles were clamped in 2010, costing motorists over €4.5m.
Noel Purcell Walk was last year's clamping blackspot with 976 vehicles clamped costing motorists €78,080 in de-clamping fees on that street alone.
De-clamping service costs more to run
However, despite €4.5m being collected from de-clamping, it costs nearly double that to run the service.
Dublin City Council confirmed it costs between €9m and €10m for the service and the money is spent on Dublin Street Parking Service's clamping service, Dublin Street Parking Service's parking metre maintenance and Dublin City Council's small parking enforcement office.
In addition to the €26m collected from pay and display, €880,000 was collected from private residential parking permits and more money is collected from four car parks run by the council.
Parking permits cost €40 but there is a proposal with the city council's Transport and Traffic Committee to raise it to €50.
However, councillors have to vote on the proposal.
Dublin City's clamping service is operated by Dublin Street Parking Services on Dublin City Council's behalf.
