594. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch accreditation reviews or PHECC Governance Validation Framework inspections since 2020 identified any recommendations, concerns, corrective actions, or areas requiring improvement relating to ambulance dispatch allocation performance. [41068/26]
Topics / Ambulance Service
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsAmbulance Service
860 questions from 114 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
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852 written, 8 oral
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| January 2025 | 9 |
| February 2025 | 52 |
| March 2025 | 34 |
| April 2025 | 40 |
| May 2025 | 28 |
| June 2025 | 19 |
| July 2025 | 18 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 29 |
| 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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595. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the longest ambulance allocation delays occurring annually for PURPLE and RED category calls; and if so, the longest recorded delays in 2024 and 2025. [41069/26]
596. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether ambulance dispatch delays beyond defined KPI thresholds are routinely linked with mortality reviews, serious incident reviews, or adverse outcome monitoring systems. [41070/26]
597. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal threshold exists at which an emergency ambulance allocation delay is automatically escalated to senior operational management or clinical oversight personnel. [41071/26]
598. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any threshold exists at which repeated ambulance allocation breaches are escalated to senior HSE management, the HSE Board, or the Department of Health. [41072/26]
599. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether delays in ambulance allocation are tracked against patient outcomes including mortality, ICU admission, cardiac arrest survival, or adverse clinical incidents. [41073/26]
600. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains any internal reporting categorising prolonged ambulance allocation delays by duration band including delays exceeding 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes or longer. [41075/26]
601. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any review has examined the proportion of patients experiencing clinically significant deterioration while awaiting ambulance allocation following a 999 or 112 call. [41076/26]
602. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE or National Ambulance Service has defined any maximum clinically acceptable allocation delay thresholds for PURPLE or RED calls beyond the published KPI targets. [41077/26]
603. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether repeated breaches of ambulance allocation KPIs form part of any formal risk escalation process under the HSE Enterprise Risk Management Framework. [41078/26]
604. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any external audit, IAED review, or PHECC inspection since 2020 identified concerns, recommendations, corrective actions, or non-compliance findings relating to ambulance dispatch allocation times. [41079/26]
605. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the number of occasions where no ambulance resource was immediately available for a PURPLE or RED emergency call. [41080/26]
606. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2790 of 14 April 2026, the work that has been carried out to date to determine if a specialised SATU unit is required in the HSE mid-west region for children and adolescents; the stakeholders HSE mid-west has engaged to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41115/26]
607. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to urgently intervene in an urgent case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41116/26]
608. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains any data regarding mental health outcomes, service disengagement, emergency presentations or psychiatric admissions among care-experienced young adults following transition from CAMHS to adult mental health services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41127/26]
609. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE National Ambulance Service maintains any formal escalation matrix specifying the actions required when ambulance allocation KPIs fall below target levels over sustained periods; and if they will provide details. [41133/26]
610. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether repeated breaches of ambulance allocation time KPIs trigger mandatory review by senior HSE management, the National Director of Acute Operations, or the Department of Health. [41134/26]
611. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any patient harm review, serious incident review, morbidity review, or mortality review process specifically examines cases involving ambulance allocation delays beyond defined KPI thresholds. [41135/26]
612. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the longest ambulance allocation delay experienced for PURPLE and RED calls each month. [41136/26]
613. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any ambulance allocation delays exceeding defined thresholds have been linked to adverse clinical outcomes, cardiac arrest deterioration, preventable harm, or death since 2020. [41137/26]
614. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether ambulance allocation delays are currently recorded as strategic, operational, or enterprise risks within any HSE or National Ambulance Service risk register. [41138/26]
615. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the IAED accreditation process examines patient outcome data associated with delayed ambulance allocation times. [41139/26]
616. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the PHECC Governance Validation Framework specifically reviews the relationship between ambulance allocation delays and adverse patient outcomes. [41140/26]
617. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal escalation threshold exists where repeated breaches of ambulance allocation KPIs trigger mandatory review by senior HSE management, the National Director of the National Ambulance Service, or the Department of Health. [41141/26]
618. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether delays in ambulance allocation are linked to any retrospective clinical review process where serious deterioration, cardiac arrest, death, or adverse patient outcome subsequently occurs. [41142/26]