Clampers are returning to full levels of parking enforcement in Dublin city centre today.
The city council says the rules were never fully suspended, but clamping activity had been "substantially scaled back" up to now and had concentrated on keeping bus lanes, bike tracks and footpaths clear.
The local authority says it has been trying to facilitate healthcare workers during the crisis and that will continue.
One business group says essential staff working in the capital had been enjoying a degree of leeway about parking during the lockdown.
Alan Robinson, chief executive of the Docklands Business Forum, says those who can drive should be encouraged to do so by making parking free in the yellow zone;
"If you make parking paying again, you're going to do one of two things. You are going to force them to use the parking meter that's been identified as a carrier of the virus and they're going to have to use that multiple times a day, coming back in and out of their office.
"Or they're going to use public transport and there's going to be more interaction with people."
