Ambulance Service

174. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Health if her Department has examined the effectiveness of ambulance call-outs using eircodes for locating emergencies. [51605/25]

177. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the way in which her Department, along with the national ambulance service, proposes to increase the availability of ambulances and skilled paramedics in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52184/25]

200. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health if she will engage with the National Ambulance Service regarding the need for a rapid response vehicle at Tuam ambulance base, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52190/25]

445. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the number of calls made to the National Ambulance Service to attend a property (details supplied) in 2024 and from 1 January 2025 and to date in 2025. [52780/25]

235. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status one ECHO incidents responded to within 19 minutes in the first nine months of each year 2019 to 2025, by region, in tabular form. [52604/25]

236. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status one DELTA incidents responded to within 19 minutes in the first nine months of each year 2019 to 2025, by region, in tabular form. [52605/25]

237. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average ambulance response time to all incidents in the first nine months of each year 2019 to 2025, by region, in tabular form. [52606/25]

250. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the percentage of ambulance crews who are ready and mobile to receive another call within 20 minutes of patient handover for each emergency department, and each hospital for the first nine months of each year 2023 to 2025, in tabular form. [52619/25]

835. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulances, rapid response vehicles and motorcycles based at each ambulance station within Limerick which are available to attend emergency calls on a 24-7 basis in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51110/25]

849. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulances and number of paramedic cars stationed in each of the LEAs in County Clare, from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; her plans to increase the number of both; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51263/25]

347. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 31 January 2025, if she will review the question asked and the response issued by the National Ambulance Service dated 19 January 2024; if a request submitted by a patient’s GP for an ambulance service to transport a seriously ill patient to appointments in a Dublin hospital will be approved as a…

166. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health her views regarding the national ambulance service being under-resourced in terms of the low number of ambulances in its fleet and a lack of paramedics to give full coverage to the County Clare with maximum time efficiency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50568/25]

167. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the reasons an ambulance required for an infant child (details supplied) in County Clare was delayed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50569/25]

632. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the reason a private operator has been chosen for non-emergency patient transport in the greater Dublin area while the National Ambulance Service already operates an ICV service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49968/25]

641. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the rationale behind the recent decision to award a contract for non-emergency patient transport in the greater Dublin area to a private ambulance provider; if there are further plans to privatise non-emergency patient transport in other healthcare regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50013/25]

385. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reason for the disruption to the authorisation of newly qualified paramedics and advanced paramedics within the National Ambulance Service; to outline the rationale for not conducting any consultation or providing an explanation for the disruption; the persons responsible for issuing the necessary letters of authorisation; the date at whic…

1169. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of both newly qualified paramedics and advanced paramedics within the National Ambulance Service (details supplied); the actions she will take to address these concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47856/25]

1178. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulances which operate out of each ambulance station nationwide on a daily basis, Monday to Sunday; and the breakdown of this on an hourly and daily rota basis. [47975/25]

1265. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of life-threatening calls that National Ambulance Service attended within 19-minutes in County Wexford in the first eight months of 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48460/25]

1345. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the establishment of an ambulance base in Connemara; and the timeline for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49006/25]

1367. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health to explain the reason a recent decision was made to award a contract for non-emergency patient transport in the greater Dublin area to a private ambulance provider when NAS ICV resources are already available; the safeguards in place to ensure that this is not the beginning of a wider privatisation agenda within pre-hospital emergency…

2058. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to make operational motorcycle ambulance or paramedic response vehicles in the Cork region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44498/25]

2059. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Health the average ambulance response times in Cork city and county for 2023 and 2024; the breakdown of response times, for example, the percentage of responses in less than 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 25 minutes, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44499/25]

2156. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health for a detailed progress report in regard to the provision of the overdue ambulance base in Killorglin, County Kerry to serve the Killorglin and greater mid-Kerry region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44904/25]

2242. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of an individual with a very serious injury who waited more than five hours for an ambulance to arrive, during which time their condition worsened (details supplied); the specific circumstances that occurred that evening to render the service unable to respond in good time; the measures being taken to ensure wait times suc…