Two members of Galway City Council have called for the suspension of the current clamping contract for the city following the refusal of a clamper to release the car of a man who urgently needed to bring his sick child to hospital.
Mr Declan McDonnell, a PD councillor, said the incident outside a doctor's surgery threatened the good name of the city.
"I am now calling on the City Manager, Mr John Tierney, to suspend forthwith the existing clamping arrangements and under no circumstances to consider extending the year-long contract pending a full and thorough investigation of the circumstances surrounding the most recent events," he said.
Control Plus, the company which has the clamping contract for Galway, issued an apology to the family at the centre of the controversy on Wednesday.