Hospital Charges

2535. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether patients with disabilities, carers, and parents of children with additional needs are entitled to parking exemptions or supports at public hospitals; and if there is a consistent national policy in this regard. [2339/26]

2536. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether she accepts that hospital parking charges can place an additional financial burden on families at times of acute stress or illness; and if she will consider alternatives such as capped daily rates or free parking for long-term patients. [2340/26]

636. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the status of the programme for Government commitment to reduce hospital car parking charges; who holds responsibility for overseeing this commitment nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73297/25]

637. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the net income raised through parking charges at car parks in hospitals across the State from 2023 to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73298/25]

620. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the amount collected in public parking charges at Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown in 2024 and to-date in 2025 in tabular form. [71286/25]

597. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a schedule by hospital and HSE of the number of instances in which they utilised a debt recovery agency and or debt recovery individual to collect outstanding fees from a person in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [67769/25]

845. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health the status of the Programme for Government commitment to reduce hospital car parking charges; if she is aware of a 25% increase in car parking fees in November 2025 at Sligo University Hospital (SUH); the amount of revenue generated through parking charges within the car park at SUH in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statemen…

591. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence (details supplied) regarding an accident and emergency charge issued by Cavan General Hospital; her views on whether the application of this charge was correct in circumstances where the patient could not be admitted due to the unavailability of beds;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64711/25]

955. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through public parking charges at a hospital (details supplied) in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61127/25]

1061. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the amount raised from car parking charges at University Hospital Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61795/25]

1080. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Health the amount raised from car parking charges at St Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61855/25]

1081. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Health the amount raised from car parking charges at University Hospital Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61856/25]

591. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total amount paid by HSE-run hospitals to debt collection agencies in each of the past five years, by hospital group; and to explain the Department's oversight role in approving or monitoring such expenditure. [53094/25]

592. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total amount of patient debt referred to debt collection agencies in the same period; the proportion of this debt that was successfully recovered; and whether her Department has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of this practice. [53095/25]

593. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health her Department's current policy on the use of private debt collection firms by public hospitals, including whether such arrangements require Departmental approval or follow centrally issued guidance. [53096/25]

594. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the safeguards in place to ensure that vulnerable patients, such as those on low incomes or with long-term illnesses, are not subject to aggressive debt-collection practices by HSE hospitals. [53097/25]

595. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has examined the approach in other EU countries with universal health systems in relation to pursuing unpaid hospital charges; and to indicate whether reforms are under consideration to reduce reliance on private debt collectors. [53098/25]

596. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department intends to publish an annual report detailing hospital debts, recovery rates and payments made to collection firms, in the interests of transparency and public accountability. [53099/25]

1317. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if she will introduce a national policy to ensure that all hospitals, both those directly managed by the Health Service Executive and those receiving public funding, provide free parking to holders of a disabled person’s parking permit (blue badge); the current arrangements across the hospital network regarding parking charges for such permit …

1318. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if she has considered measures to compensate hospitals for any revenue loss arising from the introduction of free parking for holders of a disabled person’s parking permit (blue badge); if her Department has conducted an assessment of the fiscal impact of such a measure across the health service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.…

2950. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has plans to facilitate the payment of accident and emergency department charges in cash at local post offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42662/25]

780. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of abolishing all inpatient and emergency department charges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35672/25]

784. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated revenue from all parking charges at public hospitals in 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35676/25]

622. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of 1,000 scans (MRI, CT, Ultrasound, PET, and any other), by scan type. [28716/25]

648. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of removing hospital car parking charges; the revenue raised by each HSE and section 38 hospital, for each hospital, to be requested from each hospital individually and collated in a single response, in tabular form. [28745/25]