Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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730. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance by age group (details supplied). [59503/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As of the 1 July 2022, 46.4% of the Irish population or 2.4 million people are estimated to have private health insurance. This includes persons insured by the three open market undertakings and restricted membership undertakings. Restricted membership undertakings provide insurance to people who are members of a particular group, normally a vocational group or employees of a particular organisation and their dependants e.g. The Garda Medical Aid and Prison Officers Medical Aid.

The table below provides a breakdown of the private health insurance market membership as of 1 July 2022 by age group – this table excludes persons insured by restricted membership undertakings and so there is a difference between the breakdown given below and the total number estimated to have private health insurance. The number of insured persons in the health insurance market (excluding restricted membership undertakings) increased by 3% in the period 1 July 2021 to 1 July 2022, from 2,226,235 at 1 July 2021 to 2,293,838 at 1 July 2022.