The Health Act 1970 (as amended) provides that all persons ordinarily resident in the country are entitled, subject to certain charges, to all in-patient public hospital services in public wards including consultant services and out-patient pubic hospital services including consultants services. For persons availing of public in-patient services, such as the treatment described, the current public hospital statutory in-patient charge is €75 per night, to a maximum of €750 in any twelve consecutive months. Medical card holders are exempt from public hospital charges. In addition, the HSE, under Section 55 of the Health Act, may provide private in-patient services to persons who are not entitled to, or who do not have or have waived eligibility to public in-patient services.
As for those patients receiving treatment by medication outside of hospital care, under the Drugs Payment Scheme, an individual or family in Ireland only has to pay €144 for all their prescribed approved medication each calendar month.