Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 November 2020
727. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 817 and 818 of 22 September 2020 and Questions Nos. 298 to 300, inclusive of 24 September 2020, the number of the 2,553 Echo calls made from 1 January 2020 to 31 August 2020 that were attended by the first ambulance dispatched to attend the call in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35014/20]
View answer728. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 817 and 855 of 22 September 2020 and Questions Nos. 269 to 271, inclusive, of 24 September 2020, the number of the 67,849 Delta calls made from 1 January 2020 to 31 August 2020 that were attended by the first ambulance dispatched to attend the call, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35015/20]
View answer729. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health further to the response of the HSE to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 817 and 819 of 22 September 2020, and Parliamentary Questions Nos. 269 to 271, inlusive, of 24 September 2020, the number of the total 70,402 category 1 calls made from 1 January 2020 through to 31 August 2020 that were attended within 20, 20 to 30, 30 to 45 and after 45 minutes, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35016/20]
View answer730. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the reason consideration is not being given to the time it takes from when an ambulance is called until it reaches its destination, as opposed to the time it takes to get an ambulance on the road to a call from the moment the call was made, as the main metric for measuring the responsiveness of the ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35017/20]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 727 to 730, inclusive, together.
As these are service matters I have asked the Health Service Executive to reply to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
