American marrying Irish and moving to Ireland

Hi,

Scenario: An American marries an Irish citizen and moves to Ireland permanently.

• What happens if they have to go to hospital in terms of treatment / cost?

• What happens if that person were to become pregnant, would they be able to go the public hospital route and if so what are the associated costs?

• How long would they have to be working in Ireland to get the same sort of health cover than an Irish citizen has?

Once they have stamp 4 and a PPS number the public system is immediately available to them.

So if they were hospitalised they would pay 75 euro a night up to a maximum of 10 nights.


If they needed the emergency room they would pay 100 euro unless they attended a GP first.

You don't need to have worked in Ireland to avail of these services.

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Excellent, just read all of that. I know we all complain a lot, but in principle that is a great service to be offered... now if we could just improve the quality!

Thanks!