73. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health to review the current situation within the National Ambulance Service where emergency response vehicles have been removed from off-duty paramedics as such vehicles are perceived to be a benefit-in-kind and the impact this decision will have on response times to an emergency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9144/25]
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80. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when she will implement paramedic specialist grades for the National Ambulance Service; to provide an update on the review of roles and responsibilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10083/25]
138. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the reason no advanced paramedic has been trained since 2019; and if she is aware that paramedics working in the National Ambulance Service do not receive a telephone allowance. [10197/25]
398. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health for an employment report, to include the following categories: medical and dental, nursing and midwifery, health and social care professionals, management and administrative, general support, and patient and client care for the National Ambulance Service Mid-West, for the years 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [10292/25]
399. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the current status and any progress on the development of a new ambulance base in Kilrush, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10293/25]
447. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the number and percentage of incidents responded by the National Ambulance Service, by clinical status and sub status for January in each of the years 2022 and 2025. [10471/25]
458. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health if the amount of the €16 million Budget 2025 allocation for the National Ambulance Service that was to be used to train advanced paramedics; and the number of advanced paramedics this will train. [10540/25]
459. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health whether he is aware of comments made by the National Ambulance Service indicating it does not intend to reopen training for advanced paramedics. [10541/25]
190. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the current understaffing in the National Ambulance Service; how she intends to solve this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9998/25]
197. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of disciplinary procedures taken against staff of National Ambulance Service for contacting managers out-of-hours and the policy as it relates to contacting management out of hours. [10044/25]
198. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the details of National Ambulance Service roster polices as it relates to local rosters and regional rosters; the service’s plans as it relates to regional rosters [10045/25]
655. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of the new National Ambulance Service strategic plan; the timeline for publication; if an implementation plan will be published alongside the strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9114/25]
656. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the 180 posts to be delivered in the National Ambulance Service; the status of recruitment for these posts; the date by which she expects recruitment to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9115/25]
730. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the targets set for each year by the National Ambulance Service for implementation of its workforce and capacity review, in tabular form; and the progress against such targets for each year since the commencement of the strategy. [9563/25]
737. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of 24-7 HSE critical care ambulances, by location, in each of the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [9583/25]
776. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 3 October 2024, the amount of the additional €16 million in full-year funding to the National Ambulance Service that will be spent on ensuring more advanced paramedics in 2025, as confirmed for Budget 2025 (details supplied); the amount of additional advance paramedics this will see trained; and if she will make a sta…
781. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health when the air ambulance will be returning to the Athlone base; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9824/25]
395. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Health : for clarification on the decision that off-duty paramedics are no longer able to bring their work vehicles home; if this is a permanent decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8793/25]
846. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the circumstances in which ambulances are permitted to take patients to the minor injuries unit (MIU) at Monaghan Hospital, rather than an emergency department in another hospital; whether there has been any change to the criteria applied in these instances; whether new or additional changes to this criteria are planned; the number of times that an ambulance broug…
847. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the number of times that the National Ambulance Service utilised a helicopter to transport patients from locations in County Monaghan, by each hospital, in each month in 2024; the number brought to each hospital in each month to which patients were presented; the average time in each month within which the helicopter ambulance arrived on scene from the original ca…
885. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to concerns related to the cessation of advanced paramedic training courses operated by the National Ambulance Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7492/25]
886. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to concerns related to low level of recruitment of advanced paramedics; the actions she will take to address these concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7493/25]
890. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the funding and staff allocated to National Ambulance Service emerging threat units; the number of units which were recommended to be established; the number in place; the plans for expanding these teams in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7559/25]
893. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she will mandate the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to engage with unions and workers on resolving a dispute relating to the application of benefit-in-kind on the use of NAS vehicles off-roster, such as for voluntary first response; if she will ensure that where paramedics are using NAS vehicles in their own time to respond, following a request from the N…
937. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Health if he will review the decision by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to require advanced paramedic training officers and NAS managers to park emergency response vehicles at ambulance bases instead of taking them home, given that this will end voluntary out-of-hours emergency response by trained personnel, impacting patient care in local communities; if the i…