Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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293. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently availing of private health insurance in age groups (details supplied). [18617/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The table provides for the most recent data available from the Health Insurance Authority (HIA) and shows the number of insured persons by age group as of 1 January 2017. This information is compiled in respect of the commercial health insurers and excludes people serving waiting periods and members of Restricted Membership Undertakings (which provide insurance to people who are members of a particular group, normally a vocational group or employees of a particular organisation).

Table: Insured persons by age group for the Market

(Open Enrolment Insurers), 1 January 2017.