309. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the plans in place to address ambulance delays more broadly; the expected timelines for these changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16120/25]
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328. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health if a permanent ambulance base will be reinstated in Midleton, County Cork, following flooding events last year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16168/25]
726. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health if she will consider the establishment of a new service ambulance base and education centre for the National Ambulance Service on a HSE owned site (details supplied). [15131/25]
738. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulances available, on average, daily in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15279/25]
739. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the average ambulance response times to "PURPLE" calls (life-threatening) in County Clare between 1 March 2024 and 1 March 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15280/25]
740. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the average ambulance response times to "RED" calls (potentially life-threatening) in County Clare between 1 March 2024 and 1 March 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15281/25]
743. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the number of persons recruited for the National Ambulance Service in each county over each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15288/25]
744. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the reason there has been no movement on the National Ambulance Service recruitment panel than what initiated in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15289/25]
745. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency medical technicians, emergency medical controllers and student paramedics hired to address the National Ambulance Service shortfall of an additional 1,080 staff since the recruitment panel was set up in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15290/25]
371. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Health the reason no advanced paramedic has been trained since 2019; if there are plans in place to recommence this training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14721/25]
372. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Health when she expects to commence the implementation of the paramedic specialist grade for the National Ambulance Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14722/25]
393. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of all ambulance base locations with rapid response vehicles (RRVs) in the West of Ireland; the current makeup of the crew for each RRV; and to provide a list of current vacancies on the roster for RRVs. [14795/25]
246. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health whether ambulances are now required to commence shift at the Kinsale road, as there is no ambulance located at the Saint Mary’s site in Cork city. [14360/25]
717. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to introducing a rapid response vehicle in Tuam, County Galway, to be operated by an advanced paramedic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13436/25]
732. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is provided with home base facilities in Shannon and in every area required, to enhance its work supporting the emergency services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13590/25]
1537. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of paramedics recruited into the ambulance service from July 2024 to year end 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10897/25]
1539. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of approved headcount and whole-time equivalent posts and new posts allocated to the National Ambulance Service in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [10899/25]
1540. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average time from advertisement to job offer in the National Ambulance Service. [10900/25]
1541. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 3 October 2024, to provide a breakdown of the €16 million additional expenditure allocation announced for the National Ambulance Service; the purpose of the allocation; the details of intended spend by line item, in tabular form; if it was the intention that funding would be allocated for advanced paramedic training…
1551. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the percentage of Clinical Status 1 ECHO and Clinical Status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 18 minutes and 59 seconds or less in a direct tabular comparison for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, nationally and by ambulance region, in tabular form; the average length of such response times, nationally and by reg…
1552. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number and percentage of incidents responded to by the ambulance service, by clinical status and substatus, for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10922/25]
1553. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the percentage of ambulance crews ready and mobile to receive another call within 20 minutes of patient handover, for each emergency department and for each hospital for each quarter in 2023 and 2024 and each month to date in 2025, tabular form. [10923/25]
1595. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of paramedics recruited by the National Ambulance Service in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number of paramedics who have left the National Ambulance Service in the corresponding timeframe; her plans to improve recruitment and retention in the service more generally; and if she will make a statement on the matter…
1679. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health how she will address the serious concerns of officers in the National Ambulance Service on the impact of Revenue’s approach to benefit-in-kind taxation towards their marked and fully equipped blue-light response vehicles; if she is aware of the negative impact this will have in many communities across the State; and if she will make a statement on the m…
1724. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the plans to construct a state-of-the-art ambulance base at Kelvin Grove, Carlow. [11799/25]