Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 674: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a table outlining the number of persons in the State diagnosed with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis each year from 1994 to 2011 broken down by age from one to 16 and 16 to 30; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29791/12]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Statistics on the numbers of people diagnosed with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are not routinely available. The available data relates to episodes of hospitalisation from these conditions and this information is presented in the table below. The data are derived from the Hospital In-patient Enquiry (HIPE) system which records details on each in-patient and daycase discharge from all publicly-funded acute hospitals. It should be noted that if a patient is admitted more than once for a specific condition, each admission is counted separately in HIPE. For this reason, the figures should not be interpreted as prevalence estimates for these conditions. The data for 2011 is provisional.