Ambulance Service Provision

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 16 July 2015

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Questions (534, 535, 536, 550, 551)

Billy Kelleher

Question:

534. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form and by Health Service Executive region, sub-divided by every 50,000 miles or 80,000 km, the distances that have been travelled by emergency ambulances currently in service; those travelled by intermediate care ambulances currently in service; those travelled by rapid response vehicles currently in service, in such a capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29991/15]

Billy Kelleher

Question:

535. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for each ambulance station and in each month in the year to April 2015, the percentage of clinical status 1 echocardigram incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less. [29992/15]

Billy Kelleher

Question:

536. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in April 2014; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes, 40 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 120 minutes, and 180 minutes to hand over patients, get the trolleys back and return to responding to calls. [29993/15]

Billy Kelleher

Question:

550. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health to set out the number of emergency ambulances that have been decommissioned by the Health Service Executive national ambulance service in 2015 to date; the number of new emergency ambulances that have been acquired in 2015 to date; the number of intermediate care ambulances that have been decommissioned by the executive's national ambulance service so far in 2015; the number of new intermediate care ambulances that have been acquired so far in 2015; the number of rapid response vehicles that were decommissioned by the executive's national ambulance service in 2014; the number of new rapid response vehicles that have been acquired in 2015 to date; the number of vehicles which have been commissioned or purchased as rapid response vehicles that have been acquired in 2015 to date; the number currently in use; the number awaiting entry into service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30014/15]

Billy Kelleher

Question:

551. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health to outline the number of emergency ambulances currently in service; if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the total number according to the year they entered service; if he will provide in that table data on pods and vehicles in terms of the date they entered service and the Health Service Executive region in which they are based; the number of intermediate care ambulances currently in service; if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the total number according to the year they entered service; if he will also provide in that table data on pods and vehicles in terms of the date they entered service and the Health Service Executive region in which they are based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30015/15]

Written answers

Minister for Health

I propose to take Questions Nos. 534 to 536, inclusive, 550 and 551 together.

With regard to the detailed queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.