Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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153. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of abolishing the €100 charge for the use of emergency departments and the €75 per day charge for inpatient care, in tabular form. [8574/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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In 2018, €29.3 million was raised through the statutory inpatient charge, and a further €18.6m was raised through the outpatient charge in the Acute Hospitals.

Therefore, it would cost approximately €47.9 million to abolish these charges.