Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the number of a specific item (details supplied) approved to date in 2008; the categories of people to which they were approved and the quantities in respect of same. [40730/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Details of the number of medical card holders are supplied to my Department each month by the Health Service Executive. The figures are provided on a net basis showing the balance after new cards have been issued and other cards, as appropriate, have been deleted from the Executive's database, e.g. following a review of a persons circumstances. The number of net new medical card holders in 2008 has increased by 62,083 between 1st January 2008 and 1st October 2008. The following table shows the number of persons with a medical card categorised by age as at 1st October, 2008.

In addition, as at 1st October 2008, 84,053 persons held a GP visit card.