601. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any review has examined the proportion of patients experiencing clinically significant deterioration while awaiting ambulance allocation following a 999 or 112 call. [41076/26]
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602. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE or National Ambulance Service has defined any maximum clinically acceptable allocation delay thresholds for PURPLE or RED calls beyond the published KPI targets. [41077/26]
603. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether repeated breaches of ambulance allocation KPIs form part of any formal risk escalation process under the HSE Enterprise Risk Management Framework. [41078/26]
604. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any external audit, IAED review, or PHECC inspection since 2020 identified concerns, recommendations, corrective actions, or non-compliance findings relating to ambulance dispatch allocation times. [41079/26]
605. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the number of occasions where no ambulance resource was immediately available for a PURPLE or RED emergency call. [41080/26]
606. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2790 of 14 April 2026, the work that has been carried out to date to determine if a specialised SATU unit is required in the HSE mid-west region for children and adolescents; the stakeholders HSE mid-west has engaged to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41115/26]
607. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to urgently intervene in an urgent case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41116/26]
608. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains any data regarding mental health outcomes, service disengagement, emergency presentations or psychiatric admissions among care-experienced young adults following transition from CAMHS to adult mental health services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41127/26]
609. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE National Ambulance Service maintains any formal escalation matrix specifying the actions required when ambulance allocation KPIs fall below target levels over sustained periods; and if they will provide details. [41133/26]
610. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether repeated breaches of ambulance allocation time KPIs trigger mandatory review by senior HSE management, the National Director of Acute Operations, or the Department of Health. [41134/26]
611. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any patient harm review, serious incident review, morbidity review, or mortality review process specifically examines cases involving ambulance allocation delays beyond defined KPI thresholds. [41135/26]
612. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the longest ambulance allocation delay experienced for PURPLE and RED calls each month. [41136/26]
613. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any ambulance allocation delays exceeding defined thresholds have been linked to adverse clinical outcomes, cardiac arrest deterioration, preventable harm, or death since 2020. [41137/26]
614. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether ambulance allocation delays are currently recorded as strategic, operational, or enterprise risks within any HSE or National Ambulance Service risk register. [41138/26]
615. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the IAED accreditation process examines patient outcome data associated with delayed ambulance allocation times. [41139/26]
616. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the PHECC Governance Validation Framework specifically reviews the relationship between ambulance allocation delays and adverse patient outcomes. [41140/26]
617. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal escalation threshold exists where repeated breaches of ambulance allocation KPIs trigger mandatory review by senior HSE management, the National Director of the National Ambulance Service, or the Department of Health. [41141/26]
618. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether delays in ambulance allocation are linked to any retrospective clinical review process where serious deterioration, cardiac arrest, death, or adverse patient outcome subsequently occurs. [41142/26]
619. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the duration of time for which no ambulance resource is immediately available for dispatch to a PURPLE or RED category emergency call. [41143/26]
620. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal audit, governance review, or risk assessment has examined the patient safety implications of emergency calls exceeding ambulance allocation KPI thresholds. [41144/26]
621. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether repeated breaches of PURPLE and RED allocation targets are reported to the HSE Board, National Risk Committee, or Department of Health through any formal governance reporting structure. [41145/26]
622. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether ambulance allocation delays are incorporated into any enterprise risk scoring methodology within the HSE or National Ambulance Service. [41146/26]
623. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any review has been undertaken into the appropriateness of the current ambulance allocation KPI targets of 60% for PURPLE calls and 75% for RED calls. [41147/26]
624. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE considers it acceptable from a patient safety perspective that approximately 17% of PURPLE emergency calls and 21% of RED emergency calls exceeded national ambulance allocation time thresholds in 2025. [41148/26]
625. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether every ambulance allocation delay beyond the PURPLE 60-second and RED 180-second thresholds is automatically logged within any NAS governance, quality assurance, patient safety, or incident management system; and if so, to provide details. [41176/26]