Almost 1.5 million euro was raised in car parking charges at Galway University Hospital in 2017, the hospital’s car park is operated by a private company.

At Mayo University Hospital , car parking charges are in the hospital’s control and 340,000 was collected in the car park.

A  private company operates the car park at Portiuncula hospital in Ballinasloe, where 167,000 euro was raised last year.

There are no car parking charges at Roscommon University Hospital.

While a private operator collected just short of a half a million euro in car parking charges at Sligo University Hospital in 2017.