Ambulance Service

3226. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Health for an update on the planned new ambulance base at Gorey. [55323/26]

3268. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if she has given consideration to allocating additional funding to the NAS to provide an ambulance for Inis Oírr; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55488/26]

150. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces will provide a base for an ambulance base at Iveragh Park, Killorglin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54120/26]

493. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Health for a report on the reasoning behind the delayed response time for the ambulance service in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54356/26]

563. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the progress to date in improving ambulance waiting times in the north-east including in Cavan-Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54666/26]

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]

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 st…

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. […

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 implem…

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 ari…

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]

229. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Defence to provide a temporary base for an ambulance base at a property in Killorglin, County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48499/26]

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 …

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 cu…

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]