Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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258. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers that had a medical card in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4729/15]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that, while not directly available from tax records, recent data exchanges between Revenue and the HSE has allowed medical card holders to be identified and linked to Revenue's taxpayer records. On this basis, for the income tax year 2012 (the most recent tax year for which data are available), the number of income earners who had a medical card is estimated to be approximately 379,000 out of a total of 2.1 million income earners.