diff --git a/packages/core/src/render3/instructions/listener.ts b/packages/core/src/render3/instructions/listener.ts
index fb02629b04..265765498e 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/render3/instructions/listener.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/render3/instructions/listener.ts
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ function findExistingListener(
   const tCleanup = tView.cleanup;
   if (tCleanup != null) {
     for (let i = 0; i < tCleanup.length - 1; i += 2) {
-      if (tCleanup[i] === eventName && tCleanup[i + 1] === tNodeIdx) {
+      const cleanupEventName = tCleanup[i];
+      if (cleanupEventName === eventName && tCleanup[i + 1] === tNodeIdx) {
         // We have found a matching event name on the same node but it might not have been
         // registered yet, so we must explicitly verify entries in the LView cleanup data
         // structures.
@@ -88,7 +89,9 @@ function findExistingListener(
       // blocks of 4 or 2 items in the tView.cleanup and this is why we iterate over 2 elements
       // first and jump another 2 elements if we detect listeners cleanup (4 elements). Also check
       // documentation of TView.cleanup for more details of this data structure layout.
-      i += 2;
+      if (typeof cleanupEventName === 'string') {
+        i += 2;
+      }
     }
   }
   return null;
diff --git a/packages/core/test/acceptance/listener_spec.ts b/packages/core/test/acceptance/listener_spec.ts
index b241a26383..08eec4c573 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/acceptance/listener_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/acceptance/listener_spec.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
  */
 
-import {Component, Directive, ErrorHandler, HostListener} from '@angular/core';
+import {Component, Directive, ErrorHandler, HostListener, QueryList, ViewChildren} from '@angular/core';
 import {TestBed} from '@angular/core/testing';
 import {By} from '@angular/platform-browser';
 import {onlyInIvy} from '@angular/private/testing';
@@ -105,6 +105,35 @@ describe('event listeners', () => {
               expect(buttonDebugEls[1].injector.get(MdButton).counter).toBe(1);
             });
 
+    onlyInIvy('ngDevMode.rendererAddEventListener counters are only available in ivy')
+        .it('should coalesce multiple event listeners in presence of queries', () => {
+
+          @Component({
+            selector: 'test-cmpt',
+            template: `<button likes-clicks (click)="counter = counter+1">Click me!</button>`
+          })
+          class TestCmpt {
+            counter = 0;
+
+            @ViewChildren('nothing') nothing !: QueryList<any>;
+          }
+
+          TestBed.configureTestingModule({declarations: [TestCmpt, LikesClicks]});
+          const noOfEventListenersRegisteredSoFar = getNoOfNativeListeners();
+          const fixture = TestBed.createComponent(TestCmpt);
+          fixture.detectChanges();
+          const buttonDebugEl = fixture.debugElement.query(By.css('button'));
+
+          // We want to assert that only one native event handler was registered but still all
+          // directives are notified when an event fires. This assertion can only be verified in
+          // the ngDevMode (but the coalescing always happens!).
+          ngDevMode && expect(getNoOfNativeListeners()).toBe(noOfEventListenersRegisteredSoFar + 1);
+
+          buttonDebugEl.nativeElement.click();
+          expect(buttonDebugEl.injector.get(LikesClicks).counter).toBe(1);
+          expect(fixture.componentInstance.counter).toBe(1);
+        });
+
 
     it('should try to execute remaining coalesced listeners if one of the listeners throws', () => {