Over the past six years, the government paid €453,754.34 to other EU governments for medical attention to Maltese who made use of the European health insurance card, known until 2006 as the E111. Answering two parliamentary questions by Silvio Parnis (PL), Health Minister Joseph Cassar said that over the past five years, EU governments had paid the government €842,291.75 for medical care for their own citizens in Malta on the strength of the E111.