600. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the ambulance response performance for clinical status 1 incidents, including response times, proportions met, and incident volumes by clinical status, in quarter 1 and quarter 2 2026, nationally and by region, in tabular form. [54732/26]
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601. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the percentage of ambulance crews available to respond within 20 minutes of ED handover, by hospital, in quarter 1 and quarter 2 2026, in tabular form. [54733/26]
394. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the average ambulance response times for emergency call-outs in County Clare during each of the past three years, broken down by call category; and the measures being undertaken in Clare and the wider Mid-West Region to reduce response times. [53836/26]
395. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance call-outs in County Clare that exceeded the national target response time during each of the past three years. [53837/26]
706. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of ambulance response times in County Wicklow in 2025 and to date in 2026, by municipal district, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52656/26]
707. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Health the number of instances where ambulances in Wicklow did not arrive within the targeted timeframe in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026; the longest period that a person waited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52657/26]
789. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status and details of the new ambulance base in Waterford; the next steps for the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53057/26]
737. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 2332 and 2333 of 9 June 2026, whether she is satisfied that the National Ambulance Service maintains no national dataset recording the elapsed time between receipt of a 999 call and allocation of an ambulance resource; whether she has requested that such a dataset be established; and if she will make a statement on the matte…
738. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2334 of 9 June 2026, whether she will now commission a national analysis examining the relationship between ambulance allocation or dispatch delays and mortality, morbidity, clinical deterioration or other patient outcomes; and if not, the basis on which she is satisfied that no such analysis is required. [50978/26]
739. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2330 of 9 June 2026, the recommendations, corrective actions, policy changes or service improvements that arose from the two system analysis reviews identified by the National Ambulance Service as involving ambulance allocation or dispatch delays since 2020; and the date on which each such action was implemented. [50979/26]
740. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2335 of 9 June 2026, whether she will publish the two system analysis reviews identified by the National Ambulance Service as having found ambulance allocation or dispatch delays to be contributory factors; and if publication is not possible, the specific findings, recommendations and corrective actions arising from each revie…
758. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide a summary of the findings, recommendations and corrective actions arising from the two system analysis reviews identified by the National Ambulance Service as involving ambulance allocation or dispatch delays since 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48855/26]
759. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2330 of 9 June 2026, the date by which the Health Service Executive will revert to this Deputy with the additional information requested regarding the two National Ambulance Service System Analysis Reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48856/26]
760. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of a national dataset recording elapsed time between receipt of a 999 call and allocation of an ambulance resource is recorded on any HSE or National Ambulance Service risk register or audit plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48857/26]
917. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health her plans to improve the ambulance services within the south-west region. [49628/26]
510. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of achieving the targets set in the National Ambulance Service strategic workforce plan, in tabular form; the number of workers required, by grade in whole-time equivalent; and the additional capital investment required. [48659/26]
266. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the rationale for permitting the continuation of the revised crewing model introduced by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) during the Covid-19 pandemic, which allowed an emergency medical technician (EMT) and a paramedic to crew an emergency ambulance; whether this measure was intended to be temporary and pandemic-specific; if she is satisfied tha…
317. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health which was changed during Covid to one paramedic and an EMT and has never been changed back (details supplied); if she will ensure the previous standards are reinstated; her views that the current requirement constitutes a reduction in the level of care; if she will ensure that no new deal with unions will include the continuation of the current requirement; a…
319. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Health the plans to establish an ambulance base in Kilmallock, County Limerick; her plans to enhance the base in Newcastle West Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48339/26]
736. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if the pre-hospital emergency care council intends to re-instate the pre-pandemic minimum care standard that required ambulance crews to be composed of at least two qualified paramedics, instead of a paramedic and an EMT; the reason a lessening of care standards in a pre-hospital context, post-pandemic, has been permitted; and if she will make a statement on t…
450. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of National Ambulance Service emergency incidents in County Clare in each of the years 2021 to 2025 involving major trauma, suspected stroke, STEMI, cardiac arrest or other time-critical conditions; the location of the incident by municipal district; the destination hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46413/26]
468. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE rapid response vehicles based in Laois and available for calls on a 24-7 basis as of the 9 June 2026; if she will provide same figures as of the 30 June 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46495/26]
527. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health her plans to improve the ambulance service in the Mid-West; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46702/26]
995. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the details of the level of National Ambulance Service cover that there has been across the past six months at each ambulance based in Clare and the wider mid-west region (details supplied); if at any times shifts were not covered at certain bases; the way in which she plans to remedy this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45723/26]
1029. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the completion of the new ambulance base at Recess, County Galway, including key milestones and the expected date of operational readiness; the level of ambulance services planned to be operated from the base, including staffing levels, number of ambulance units, hours of operation, the catchment area it will serve; and if she will make a stat…