Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is an agreement between the UK and Ireland for Irish medical card holders to receive dental treatment whist residing in a medical facility in the UK, sponsored by the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42987/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Regulation (EC) 1408/71 provides, inter alia, that people who are insured with or covered by the health care system of one Member State may access health care in the public system of another Member State in certain circumstances. Under the provisions of this Regulation, an Irish resident who goes to another Member State on a temporary stay but who remains ordinarily resident in Ireland is covered by the European Health Insurance Card for necessary health care in the public system of that Member State, at the cost of the home State.