Dáil Éireann Debate, Friday - 16 December 2016
146. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons regarding whom the Revenue Commissioners provided data to the Health Service Executive under section 8 of the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act 2013 in 2015 and to date in 2016, in tabular form. [40933/16]
View answerI am advised by Revenue that the number of individuals about whom data has been provided, on request, to the Health Service Executive (HSE) under section 8 of the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act 2013 is as follows:
|
2015 |
1,236,788 |
|
2016 to date |
728,799 |
The data supplied by Revenue to the HSE, in accordance with the data exchange agreement in place between both organisations, generally consists of details of income returned by the taxpayer in their tax return; or in the case of PAYE taxpayers, income details provided by their employer. It should be noted that for a significant number of individuals in respect of whom Revenue receives requests from the HSE, Revenue would have no income details on its records for those persons because, for example, their only source of income is a pension from the Department of Social Protection. These individuals are included in the numbers shown in the table.
