Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications for a medical card received each year for the past five years; the number of these each year which were awarded a medical card; the number awarded a general practitioner visit card; the number refused; the number granted on appeal each year; if she will make a statement on the number received and refused to date in 2009. [35378/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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Details of the number of medical card and GP visit card holders are provided to my Department each month by the Health Service Executive (HSE). 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 person's circumstances. As the information sought by the Deputy is not provided by the HSE to my Department as a matter of routine, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to address these matters and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.