Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent)
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208. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons who have health insurance as of October 2013; the figures for end of year 2007 to 2012 inclusive; the number of these that have a full medical card or a general practitioner only card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49735/13]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The latest data available to me from the Health Insurance Authority is that 2,047,020 people, or 44.6% of the population were insured with in-patient health insurance plans at end September 2013.

The following numbers were insured from 2007 to 2012 inclusive:

Information is not collated on the numbers of persons holding both private health insurance and a medical card or general practitioner visit card.