Car parking costs can be extremely distressing for patients or relatives of patients who have to wait long periods in hospitals.

Often times if it is an emergency the ill person will be stuck with the bill or in the case of long-term illness the relative of the patient will incur huge costs.

Peadar Tóibín, leader of Aontú and Paul Gordon, Irish Cancer Society, policy & public affairs manager joined The Last Word to discuss.

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