Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 341: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of hospitalisation in 2001, 2002 and 2003 due to kidney failure. [9552/04]

Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of liver transplants carried out here in 2001, 2002 and 2003. [9553/04]

Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 343: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of self-inflicted poisonings recorded in each of the years 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003; and the same figures by gender. [9554/04]

Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 345: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in 2001, 2002 and 2003 who were discharged from hospitals here with a diagnosis of paracetamol poison; and the number of these which were diagnosed with a liver condition. [9556/04]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

I propose to take Questions Nos. 341 to 343, inclusive, and 345 together.

The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the following tables. The figures are derived from the hospital in-patient inquiry, HIPE, system which records information on hospitalisations in all publicly funded acute hospitals in the State. This system records hospital episodes and is not a patient-based system. Thus, where a patient is admitted into a hospital on more than one occasion, these individual hospital episodes are recorded.