Ban statistics

In summary: How the lorry ban in Dublin city will operate

•Four-axle articulated lorries to be banned from the city from mid-2009.

•1,500 five-axle lorries have been removed from the city-centre every day.

• The council paid more than €200,000 in Eastlink toll rebates to hauliers in the first months of the ban.

•150 drivers prosecuted for breaking the cordon.

• 68 per cent of vehicles seeking transit permits to use the city streets because they are banned from the port tunnel are over-height vehicles.

•Almost half of all permits for city business deliveries relate to Diageo's Guinness premises.