Ambulance Service

821. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to detail all requests for additional staffing for the National Ambulance Service since January 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37478/25]

269. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Health if her Department pays third-party ambulance providers such as St. John of God to deliver pre-hospital emergency care on behalf of the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36589/25]

751. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the reason a policy (details supplied) has been in place for Ennis and Nenagh since 17 August 2023 to protect the rapid response vehicle (RRV) and ensure where an ambulance personnel is not at work, that the advanced paramedic is not taken off the RRV and this policy is not in place in Roscommon, which is also without an emergency unit, as E…

851. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health the number of calls responded to by paramedic crews from Tuam ambulance base in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36163/25]

852. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance calls responded to by the rapid response vehicles in based in Galway and Clifden in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36164/25]

37. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the current average ambulance response time; the average ambulance response time in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34063/25]

73. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Health the status of a project (details supplied). [34992/25]

103. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health for an update on the establishment of an ambulance base at Recess, County Galway; if the design team has now completed the tender documentation; if the project has gone to tender; the timeline for the delivery of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34919/25]

763. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when she last met with the National Ambulance Service; and who the attendees were. [31881/25]

796. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Health for an update on the planned new ambulance base for Gorey, County Wexford. [32026/25]

555. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE ambulances and incident response vehicles based in Kerry in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [31595/25]

311. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she will prioritise the provision of an ambulance base in Killorglin, County Kerry; if she will accept that Killorglin town and the mid-Kerry region is a vast, populated area to be without an ambulance base, an area where the population increases dramatically during the summer period, with visitors to the region and to well-known festival…

316. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if Killorglin town in mid-Kerry will be considered as an ambulance base location to more effectively serve the town and surrounding district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30967/25]

354. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health the steps her Department is undertaking to allow qualified advanced paramedics who received their qualifications outside Ireland work for the National Ambulance Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31043/25]

355. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health if she will engage with the HSE and the National Ambulance Service on the withdrawal of ambulance vehicles from advance paramedics-educational officers and resource managers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31044/25]

1310. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to confirm the expenditure on private ambulances by Letterkenny University Hospital for 2024. [29147/25]

1327. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to address potential recruitment shortfalls in the National Ambulance Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29208/25]

1328. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to ensure that there is sufficient staffing of advanced paramedics within the National Ambulance Service nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29209/25]

1371. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the National Ambulance Service fleet for each of the years 2022 to 2025 inclusive and the number of vehicles by type, in tabular form. [29367/25]

1471. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health if she has replied to correspondence from a representative organisation (details supplied); the steps she will take in response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29798/25]

1630. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the efforts being made to restore 24/7 advanced paramedic cover on the rapid response vehicle in Roscommon. [30657/25]

1631. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health when the National Ambulance Service will roll out the promised privileging course for advanced paramedics; how and where this will be advertised; and if it is advertised for paramedics abroad, including in England. [30658/25]

1632. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the saving being made on a daily basis by removing the rapid response vehicle from use in Roscommon every Thursday. [30659/25]

1633. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health if the National Ambulance Service has plans for more rostered lines in Athlone. [30660/25]

567. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulances, rapid response vehicles and motorcycles on a 24-7 basis based at each ambulance station within Kildare, in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [26697/25]