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Sinn Féin TD for Galway East, Louis O’Hara, has expressed concern that the introduction of paid parking at Merlin Park Hospital in Galway will act as a financial barrier to those accessing health services. O’Hara has written to the General Manager of Galway University Hospitals requesting that the decision to introduce paid parking is reversed.

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The Galway City Council will not waive car parking charges as restrictions begin to ease.

Statistics released to Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD by the HSE have shown that over €2 million euro has been made through hospital car park charges and clamping fees in Mayo since 2012.

Calls for hospital parking charges ban after figure reveal

A total of €630,000 was collected in parking charges by University Hospital Galway last year, according to figures released by the HSE.

The elected members of Ballina Municipal District have been told that the council will only be committing 50 per cent of the previously budgeted for General Municipal Allocations, up to the end of July this year, owing to the current financial situation the council finds itself in due to a drop in income due to Covid-19.

The pay and display car parking and clamping policy at Portiuncula Hospital must be urgently reviewed as patients are being forced to rush out of A&E in fear of being clamped, Deputy Denis Naughten stated.

Abolishing car parking charges for sick patients attending treatment at Galway University Hospital is both “achievable and necessary”, and Health Minister Simon Harris must start phasing them out.