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# debt collectors

Last year
2022
Debt collectors calling on cancer patients is 'immoral and must stop', say TDs
There is cross-party support for a motion that calls for the scrapping of €80 inpatient charges and parking charges.
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Feb 2nd 2022, 11:32 AM
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Elderly woman with medical card pursued by debt collectors after private hospital treatment
The HSE has defended the use of debt collection agencies.
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Dec 11th 2019, 1:03 PM
Irish Cancer Society calls on HSE to stop referring patients' debt to collection agencies
The Irish Cancer Society is today publishing advice for patients on how best to deal with the charges.
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Dec 20th 2018, 2:40 PM
HSE spent €600,000 last year on debt collectors to chase patients for unpaid bills
The Irish Cancer Society recently called for the government to abolish inpatient charges for cancer patients in the forthcoming Budget.
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Oct 1st 2018, 6:10 AM
Parents of 4-year-old boy with cancer being pursued by debt collector on behalf of HSE
The family were denied a discretionary medical card.
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Jan 28th 2015, 8:21 AM
These photos of a Spanish woman being evicted are heartbreaking
A football team has offered to help the 85-year-old.
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Nov 24th 2014, 7:54 PM
Student body hit out over use of debt collectors in colleges
The response from the USI comes after a tender by UCD for the “collection of outstanding monies”.
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Feb 11th 2013, 5:03 PM