1135. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance callouts which were responded to in 2024 and 2025 where the person was deceased by the time of ambulance arrival on scene; the response time of the ambulances concerned; the number of investigations conducted into late arrivals of ambulances where a person was deceased by the time the ambulance arrived at a scene, by region in tabular …
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860 questions from 114 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
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| May 2025 | 28 |
| June 2025 | 19 |
| July 2025 | 18 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
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| October 2025 | 20 |
| November 2025 | 21 |
| December 2025 | 7 |
| January 2026 | 24 |
| February 2026 | 100 |
| March 2026 | 112 |
| April 2026 | 72 |
| May 2026 | 177 |
| June 2026 | 34 |
| July 2026 | 16 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 34 |
| October 2026 | 14 |
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1136. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance callouts which were responded to in 2024 and 2025 where the person was deceased by the time the ambulance had reached the hospital, by region; the response time of the ambulances concerned; the number of investigations conducted into late arrivals of ambulances where a person was deceased by the time the ambulance arrived at a hospital…
1137. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance callouts to road traffic accidents which were responded to in 2024 and 2025, by region; the number where the person was deceased at arrival to the scene; the number where a person concerned was deceased by arrival at a hospital; the response times of ambulances concerned; the average response time to road traffic accidents; the number …
1221. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Health if there has been a review of the National Ambulance Services in east Cork sine 2020; if the service is fully staffed between Monday to Thursdays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12776/26]
1222. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Health the Department that has the authority to investigate the National Ambulance Services in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12777/26]
1223. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Health the number of times east Cork was left without an ambulance service in each of the years 2020 to 2025, respectively, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12778/26]
1224. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the number of operational ambulances currently assigned to the National Ambulance Service in the Dublin north-east region, including the Dublin Fire Brigade ambulance area, by base; the number of paramedics and advanced paramedics in post; the number of vacancies; the average response times for emergency calls in north Dublin over the past 12 months, by month,…
1225. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has assessed whether current ambulance capacity in north Dublin is sufficient to meet demand; the projected staffing and fleet requirements for the Dublin north-east region over the next three years, in tabular form; the actions planned to increase ambulance availability and staffing in north Dublin; and if she will make a statement on t…
565. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Health the percentage of ambulance crews available to respond within 20 minutes of emergency department handover at Wexford General Hospital in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11299/26]
579. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether emergency ambulance responses to clinical status 1 purple and red calls where the response time exceeds 60 minutes are classified by her Department or the HSE as patient safety incidents; if so, the number of such incidents recorded in each of the past three years; if not, the clinical and governance rationale for not treating such delays in life-threateni…
580. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health when she was first informed that response times exceeding 60 minutes for clinical status 1 purple and red emergency calls are not included in published National Ambulance Service performance indicators; whether this issue was raised with her Department by the HSE or the National Ambulance Service; the date on which this occurred; and the actions she has taken sinc…
581. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide, for each HSE region, the percentage of clinical status 1 purple and red emergency calls responded to within target timeframes in each of the past 12 months; whether her Department has assessed the causes of persistent regional variation in emergency ambulance response performance; and the specific national actions in place to address inequity in emerge…
582. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health her views on whether the National Ambulance Service performance framework in which 55 percent of clinical status 1 red emergency calls fail to meet response time targets represents an acceptable standard of emergency care; the clinical or policy basis on which the current red call target was set; and whether any review of that target has been undertaken in light o…
583. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the formal escalation, intervention, or corrective measures which are triggered when the National Ambulance Service response time targets for clinical status 1 purple or red emergency calls are not met at national or regional level; whether any such measures were triggered during 2025; and if not, the way in which compliance with emergency response targets is enfo…
584. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether median response times for clinical status 1 purple and red emergency calls are collected by the National Ambulance Service; if so, to provide the median response times for each of the past 12 months by HSE region; and if not, the methodological reasons median response times are not used alongside averages in assessing emergency ambulance performance. [1139…
291. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the ambulance response performance for clinical status 1 incidents in the north-east region, including response times, proportions met, and incident volumes by clinical status, for each of the years 2022 to 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [10581/26]
292. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the percentage of ambulance crews available to respond within 20 minutes of emergency department handover at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and each hospital in the north-east, by location, on a quarterly basis for 2023 to 2025, in tabular form. [10582/26]
341. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the longest wait time recorded for an ambulance in each ambulance region in each year 2022-2025, in tabular form. [10719/26]
342. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the longest turnaround time recorded for an ambulance at each hospital in each year 2022-2025, in tabular form. [10720/26]
343. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of instances where an ambulance did not reach a high priority callout within the target timeframe; the number which did not reach such a callout within an hour; and the number of instances where an ambulance never arrived at a high priority callout. [10721/26]
380. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulances and ambulance staff operational or stationed at each ambulance station in the country, by station; the average response time to ambulance callout, per ambulance station in the State, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11063/26]
381. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of times ambulances in each ambulance station in the country have been unable to leave hospital due to an inability to admit a patient to the emergency department or due to the fact that an ambulance trolley was being occupied by a patient inside the hospital in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [11064/26]
382. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of times a patient was deceased by the time an ambulance reached them, in each of the past ten years, by ambulance station, in tabular form. [11065/26]
383. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the top ten longest lengths of time a person was left waiting for an ambulance in the State in each of the past ten years, and if details can be supplied on location/CHO area. [11066/26]
966. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to reduce ambulance response times in County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9184/26]