Over Half a Million Euro Collected by Connolly Hospital Car Park in 2025 - O’Gorman

 Deputy Roderic O’Gorman at Blanchardstown Connolly Hospital

New figures provided to Green Party Leader and Dublin West TD Roderic O’Gorman show a large increase in the amount of car park income collected by Connolly Hospital in 2025. Over €568,000 euro was collected by the facility in the past year.

As Chair of the Oireachtas Cross Party Group on Cancer, O’Gorman is working with the Irish Cancer Society to abolish these fees for cancer patients and their families. 

Cancer patients are disproportionately affected by car parking fees, with 8 in 10 reporting it as an unavoidable cost of their treatment. Lowering or removing these parking charges entirely for cancer patients and their families would be a small but important step towards lifting a burden off those dealing with debilitating long term conditions. 

Speaking on the release of the 2025 figures, Deputy O’Gorman said;

“Last year, there was a significant increase of 13% in the income being made from car parking at Connolly hospital - up from just over half a million euro in the previous year. These charges are an extra burden on patients who are sick, who are vulnerable and who have no other choice but to park on the hospital campus.”

Regarding the Irish Cancer Society’s Campaign to abolish parking charges for cancer patients, O’Gorman stated;

“I don’t think anyone is against this idea - to help vulnerable patients in a time of need - but yet the Irish Cancer Society has had to campaign on this issue for over a decade. I believe a more compassionate approach, working with patients, staff and hospital leadership, can lead to a positive outcome here. In partnership with the Oireachtas group I will continue to lobby the Government to take steps to reduce or eliminate these charges.”

Amount of Car Park Income in the Years 2024 and 2025, according information provided to Deputy Roderic O’Gorman from the Health Service Executive on foot of a parliamentary question:  

Car Park Income 2024-2025, Connolly Hospital:

2024

€500,929.74

2025

€568,852.7