Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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815. To ask the Minister for Health when the in-hospital charges for children will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5154/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Funding was provided in Budget 2022 for measures to alleviate the financial burden of statutory hospital charges incurred for children accessing care in a public hospital. This allocation of funding follows on from the commitment given in the Programme for Government to abolish statutory acute public in-patient charges for children over the lifetime of the Government.

My Department is currently working on preparing draft Heads and the General Scheme of legislation and it is the intention to bring the legislation before the Oireachtas this year.