Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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764. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing accident and emergency and hospital overnight charges. [27486/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Health Amendment Act 2013 governs the area of Statutory In-patient Charges and Emergency Department fees. The current Statutory In-patient Charge (SIC) for public patients for overnight and day in-patient services is €75 per day up to a maximum of €750 in one year. With regard to Emergency Department (ED) fees, a standard fee of €100 is charged for attendance at the ED of a public hospital.

The following table which was provided by the HSE, outlines the income received by the HSE for Emergency Department Charges and In-patient charges as reported in the HSE annual Financial Statements for 2015 which will inform the Deputy on the sums generated by patient charges: