In agreeing the Estimates for the Health Services, income collected through hospital charges, both the public levy and private charges, is taken into account in determining the Net Voted amount for the Health Service Executive. Income collected in public statutory hospitals is accounted for through Appropriations-in-Aid and netted off the Gross Vote. Income collected in public voluntary hospitals is retained by the hospital and the grant provided by the HSE takes account of this income being available to these hospitals to support the overall level of expenditure. In this way, all income collected through these charges forms part of the funding of the public health service.