Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of people who had medical cards in January 1997, January 2002 and January 2006 in respect of Meath, Cork city and county and Tipperary; the percentage of medical card holders from each county from the national totals for each date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11211/06]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of people in Meath, Cork city and county and Tipperary who had full medical cards at the latest date for which figures are available; the number who had general practitioner-only cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11212/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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On the request for information relating to January 1997 and January 2002 I have asked the Health Service Executive, HSE, to provide this directly to the Deputy. Information from the HSE shared services primary care reimbursement service indicates that the following numbers of persons held a medical card in January 2006 and March 2006 — the latest available information — in respect of Meath, Cork — the figures for county and city are not kept separately by my Department — and Tipperary. This information is provided in the following table along with the number of medical card holders as a percentage of all medical card holders for those dates.

The number of persons as at 1 March 2006 with a GP visit card is shown in the following table.