Lisa Chambers (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with epilepsy who have died in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54340/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) , the number of people that have died due to epilepsy in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon for the most recent available years 2016 and 2017 is outlined in table 1:

Table 1 Number of deaths in selected counties for epilepsy (ICD-10 Codes G40 & G41), 2016-2017*

It is not possible to produce information on the number of people who died with epilepsy as an underlying condition as the CSO only collects mortality information on causes which directly contributed to the death.

The CSO use the Tenth Revision of the International classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death (ICD-10), as recommended by the World Health Organisation, to classify deaths in Ireland. Natural cause deaths are coded with a single underlying cause of death only. The selection process for this is in line with the WHO cause of death rules for ICD-10.

Epilepsy is included in ICD-10 codes G40 and G41.

*Data for 2017 is provisional and subject to revision.