Ambulance Service

115. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the steps she will take to avert industrial action among ambulance workers, the steps she is taking to meet the ambition of the ambulance service's strategic workforce plan and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28517/26]

120. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the number of instances in 2023 to 2025, inclusive, when ambulances in Cavan and Monaghan did not arrive within the targeted timeframe; and the longest period that a person waited. [28365/26]

141. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health if a 24 hour rapid response vehicle will be introduced at Tuam ambulance base; if an analysis of calls to Tuam ambulance base will be undertaken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28153/26]

160. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if she plans to address the fact that figures from the National Ambulance Service show that the north-west region has struggled to meet national response targets for life-threatening calls recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28370/26]

198. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to directly address the major shortfall in staffing in the National Ambulance Service; the steps she is taking to avert impending planned strike action by National Ambulance Service workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28375/26]

731. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the percentage of ambulance responses in Donegal that have met national response targets for the first quarter of 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27955/26]

829. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the number of emergency calls where response times exceed 30, 45, 60 and 90 minutes; and if so, the annual totals for each category in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026. [28162/26]

830. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether delays exceeding 60 minutes in response to life-threatening emergency calls are ever retrospectively reviewed where no patient safety incident has been formally recorded; and if so, the criteria applied. [28163/26]

831. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has conducted any internal analysis of the relationship between extended ambulance response times and patient outcomes, including morbidity or mortality; and if so, to provide details. [28164/26]

832. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of time-based review thresholds in the National Ambulance Service has been subject to audit, risk assessment, or governance review since 2020. [28166/26]

836. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total annual expenditure incurred by the HSE on private ambulance services in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2026. [28176/26]

837. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of patient transfers carried out by private ambulance providers on behalf of the HSE in each of the years 2020 to date in 2026. [28177/26]

838. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the proportion of total non-emergency patient transport activity carried out by private ambulance providers compared to the National Ambulance Service in each of the years 2020 to date in 2026. [28178/26]

839. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the primary reasons private ambulance services are utilised by the HSE, including whether due to capacity constraints within the National Ambulance Service. [28179/26]

840. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any value-for-money analysis has been conducted comparing the cost of private ambulance provision versus expanding publicly operated ambulance capacity. [28180/26]

841. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has a strategic plan to reduce reliance on private ambulance providers and increase in-house capacity, and if so, to outline the timeline and targets. [28181/26]

359. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reasons the independent review of roles and responsibilities at the National Ambulance Service has not been implemented; the progress to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27501/26]

2549. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is satisfied that St. John Ambulance is fully implementing the recommendations of the Shannon report given that the National Safeguarding Officer’s own audit report of August 2025 identifies ongoing safeguarding deficiencies and makes further recommendations for corrective action; his views on whether the…

2739. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if additional ambulance services will be provided for the Iveragh Peninsula area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23967/26]

2773. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if additional funding will be allocated to provide for increased ambulance capacity in the Killarney area; if approval will be granted for the recruitment of additional paramedics and the provision of a second ambulance unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24145/26]

2825. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the current policy regarding the employment pathway for newly qualified paramedics within the National Ambulance Service (NAS); the reason for the recent change whereby paramedics who successfully complete the three-year Bachelor of Science in Paramedic Studies and associated NAS training are no longer offered permanent pos…

2873. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to examine the following issues in relation to the National Ambulance Service and the BUMBLEance service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24690/26]

2981. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the average monthly response time of the National Ambulance Service to call-outs from Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 in each of the last 12 months, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25128/26]

3046. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of life threatening calls that the National Ambulance Services attended within 19 minutes in County Kerry in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25534/26]

3062. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the WTE allocated to the National Ambulance Service in Monaghan, by role, the duration of any vacancy, by year for the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25622/26]