Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I know the Government is committed to improving the situation regarding car parking charges for hospital patients but last week I was contacted by two distressed people, a husband and wife, who are both seriously ill cancer patients and attend appointments in Dublin and Galway. They were in St. James’s Hospital last week for an appointment and, even though they had a disability pass, were told they would be charged. Cancer patients are under huge financial strain. I do not think this is correct and am sure the Minister will agree that it is shocking. Will he intervene with St. James's management, to whom I have already written, and the company concerned, Park Rite, to check whether such conditions are allowed? I do not believe they are because I know other hospital car parks accept the disability pass.

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