Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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568. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE in contracting debt collection agencies to pursue unpaid statutory charges in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44951/18]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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569. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred by each public hospital in contracting external debt collection agencies to pursue unpaid statutory charges in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44952/18]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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570. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatients or inpatient day cases with unpaid inpatient charges whose debt was referred to a debt collection or legal agency in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44953/18]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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571. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure by the HSE and public hospitals on referral of statutory charges to external debt collection or legal agencies; and the breakdown of expenditure per charge, that is, inpatient charge, outpatient and emergency charge in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [44954/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 568 to 571, inclusive, together.

As this is a matter for the Health Service Executive, I have asked them to respond to you directly.