Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children here diagnosed with Crohn's disease in each of the past ten years. [7791/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table, which sets out all hospital discharges, including inpatients and day cases, for children under the age of 15 years with a principal diagnosis of Crohn's disease-regional enteritis for each of the years from 1995 to 2004. Data are derived from the hospital inpatient enquiry, HIPE, system which records information on each episode of hospitalisation in publicly funded acute hospitals. It should be noted that persons hospitalised more than once in a given year for the same condition are counted separately in the statistics for each hospital stay.