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THE HSE HAS been criticised for sending hospital invoices to the grieving families of road traffic victims.
Martin Ferris, Sinn Fein TD, said that this “shows a terrible lack of compassion” and called for the situation to be looked at.
‘Thought it was a mistake’
Deputy Ferris said that his office had heard from a constituent who was sent the invoice after their loved one died “by the side of the road” following a road traffic accident.
The person was brought to hospital by the emergency services.
He said that the devastated constituent “thought that the invoice must have been a mistake”, so Deputy Ferris posed a parliamentary question to Health Minister Dr James Reilly, on the matter.
It was confirmed by Minister Reilly in his reply that the current emergency department charge is €100 per visit, subject to some exemptions.
There is no exemption to this charge for injury acquired through a road accident – and current HSE guidelines say that if a patient is a minor or has passed away, the invoice must be sent to the next of kin or their legal representative.
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Ferris commented:
Surely the distress and grief it causes a bereaved family to get an invoice from the HSE for A&E services, when their loved one is brought in after a fatal accident, is not worth the €100 the HSE demands.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Deputy Ferris said that it is “very insensitive” to send such an invoice to a family member. “They are after losing a loved one – the last thing they want is getting a demand notice,” he said.
“I think it should be looked at,” said Ferris.
He has called on Minister Reilly to “imagine himself in those circumstances and to put a stop to this practice immediately”.
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These lad’s have a track record
@Colm Lyons: they’re digging a hole for themselves.
@Colm Lyons: 18 tonnes whatya get, another day over and……off with another pass point
Can anyone explain why Drew Harris is been escorted all the way to Dublin in a bomb proof PSNI Jeep with armed PSNI officers in it? Read on another site the jeep was wrote off at Garda HQ in the Phoenix Park.. Are armed PSNI officers allowed in the Irish State? Why are the PSNI escorting him if he’s now the Garda Commisssioner?
@David Garland: who cares?
@Lurfic: A lot of people, for starters Gardai. Our own police force are not a loud carry guns so what makes it right for a foreign police to do so.
@David Garland: He is supposed to be met at the border by members of the An garda Armed respsone unit. But for some reason they were never sent dispatched. So for a one off the armed psni car was escorted by a marked garda car. I do like the way garda on duty at the gate pressed the emergency button to active a barrier that nearly flipped the car. Good women doing her job very well.
@Ionatán Mac Ainmhire: You’ve obviously never seen an Gardaí armed response unit, if it was guns Harris wanted he could’ve gotten them to escort him.
@Ionatán Mac Ainmhire: “Allowed”.
@David Garland: that sounds like a better story than the one in this article.
@Roy Dowling: It turned out to be an Irresponse Unit. It seems the P.S.N.I found a bucket at the scene and are looking in to it!
Easy.
Set a mechanism which
1) sets off a huge volume coloured staining smoke.
2). Also ignites the money compartment to burn like magnesium.
End of thefts.
@Niall Sheridan: how about getting rid of cash altogether? stop all robberies.
@Niall Sheridan: how is there no GPS on an ATM?
@Niall Sheridan: put them inside the shop at the back
@Renton Burke: How about asking these people who leave diggers so close to ATM’s a few questions?
Money for old rope the ATM robbing trade these days. Seems easy peasy with little chance of being caught. Roll up in the early hours with a JCB, hammer away to your hearts content, enjoy a cup of tea and a sandwich until bingo, ‘Open Sesame!’, load up the crock of gold on the stolen get away jeep and its craic agus ceoil all the way home to the party house. Yeeehaaaa!
They have to be entered into the Guiness Book of Records at this stage! Ha Ha
I fear all these atms are being robbed for a reason, to finance paramilitary activities of an even more sinister nature, they are planning something bigger
@Ole dan tucker: I thought the same myself seems to be a large spike these thefts lately.
@Ole dan tucker: Yes… J.C.B. is disbanding.
@Ole dan tucker: Precisely ——But you’re not supposed to say that!
@Ole dan tucker: like paying canvassers for the local elections maybe
@Ole dan tucker: Yes an atomic bomb has been rumoured!
Law and order is gone. Should be shot on point. Might deter any further attempts.
@Damo.f: C’mon man have u such a short memory, whem the banks screwed us Irish people 2008. a dose of their own medicine.
@James Reidy: What about the businesses that are destroyed by these criminals..shops ripped apart..and communties will be left with out the service of ATMs…your justification is shallow
@Damo.f: what if it was young people that made one mistake would u shoot him would u want ur son to be shot
@James Reidy: __ A dose of their own medicine? Who do you think is going to pay for the cash shortfall, not to mention the damage done to someone’s business premises?
@Stephen: obviously YOU were not not at the receiving end of banks! ( i was) they showed no mercy, blessings of god on those guys.
@Darren Farrell: No id bring my son up with better morals than that. And if he did go down this path in life and was made pay for his actions then he’d have only himself to blame.
@Ted Murray: Hopefully the British tax payer?
8 ATMs in 3 months and no leads. No points for guessing who’s at this. Most likely fundraising prior to Brexit.
It is the hole in the wall gang that are responsible.
Surely they must have some sort of anti-theft devices fitted to these ATMs. GPS tracking, ink bombs….?
This is just comical at this point!
Why a tracking devices not concealed in the Cash machines? Would be very cheap and effective
Ye must be in dream land everyone knows who’s doing these robberys. That digger can make some noise I drive one and it’s loud how no1 has heard anything is amazing. Ah well money for ole rope
@john: Good Republican’s greatest asset is the strictly enforced omerta code that exists in that part of the country. The penalty for breaking it is usually death by torture.
@John Mc Donagh: Great! Give machosist’s
a fair crack of the whip by God!!
The will kill the goose that laid the golden egg, or go to the well once too often !
@Andrew O Grady: too many cooks spoil the broth
The lads in shop should just drop an iphone into them and then use find my phone app. But the PSNI no doubt would be looking an Iphone XS max on a 24 month contract that would be expensive and everyone will blame stormont or brexit or both. Back too drawing board.
Authorized Telling Machine
I wonder if these ATM could tell who is thinking of stealing them
This is getting embarrasing for the police…
Wouldnt the bank with all its billions have the wherewithal to have tracking devices embedded in each ATM? Must be a pretty lucrative business stealing ATMs
Why cant the banks install uptodate monitored alarm system on the ATMs instead of the stupidity if looking for witnesses long after the event.
The stupidity and complacency of our so called betters is astounding at times.
I’m astonished by this. What a joke the banks are a trigger to dye the money if atm is tilted 5 degrees would solve this problem years ago. Get off your lazy arses banks
Its hard to believe the these track diggers and low loaders are left unlocked.All a little to convenient now.I wonder is there a share of the spoils for the owners. The kingscourt robbery had to have been seen as a certain public house had a few customers staying after hours and they came out to watch the commotion.
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