Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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587. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons who received treatment under the treatment abroad scheme in each of the years 2011 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014; and the cost incurred by the scheme in each of those years. [26952/14]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The HSE Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS) issues form E112 (IE) for specific episodes of care which an approved patient receives in a public hospital in the EU, EEA or Switzerland. The health authority of these countries issue invoices, under form E125, to the HSE for care provided to those approved patients. These invoices are received in arrears - often up to 2 and 3 years in arrears. Therefore the figures detailed in the following table are the costs as current available to the HSE TAS Office and are likely to change as invoices for previous years are received and paid and should be read in that context. As prior to its centralisation into a single office in 2012 the HSE TAS was administered at various local offices, the TAS Office cannot provide comprehensive figures for the TAS prior to 2012.