Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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837. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing accident and emergency charges. [25510/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Emergency Department charge is recorded by the HSE as an out-patient charge. In 2019 €20m was collected in Outpatient Charges from Acute Hospitals, which predominantly relates to Accident and Emergency charges. Therefore €20m is the estimated full year cost of abolishing accident and emergency charges.