24 Feabh 2014, 16:59
The National Ambulance Service will be on the agenda of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children tomorrow, Tuesday, 25th February 2014.
The schedule for the meeting is:
Session A: 3:30 pm
National Ambulance Service Representative Association
Session B: 4:15 pm
SIPTU
Session C: 5:15 pm
Health Service Executive
(i) 4.15 pm SIPTU; and National Ambulance Service Representative Association; and
(ii) 5.30 pm Health Service Executive
Committee Chairman, Jerry Buttimer TD said: “Concerns have been expressed recently about some incidents involving the National Ambulance Service. HIQA was due to carry out a review of the ambulance service in the second quarter of the year. However, at our meeting with Minister for Health James Reilly last month, he confirmed that he had spoken to both the chairman and the CEO of the HIQA and they have agreed to fast track that review so that all relevant matters might be investigated. Tomorrow, our committee will have an opportunity to get an update on the National Ambulance Service from a number of parties and to get their perspectives on the issues involved.”
The meeting will start at 3.30pm in Committee Room 1, Leinster House tomorrow, Tuesday, 25th February 2014.
Committee proceedings can be followed live here.
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Media Enquiries to:
Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2
Committee Membership:
Deputies: Jerry Buttimer (Chair), Catherine Byrne, Ciara Conway (Vice-Chair), Regina Doherty, Robert Dowds, Peter M Fitzpatrick, Seamus Healy, Billy Kelleher, Eamonn Maloney, Mattie McGrath, Sandra McLellan, Dan Neville, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Robert Troy
Senators: Colm Burke, John Crown, John Gilroy, Imelda Henry, Marc Mac Sharry and Jillian Van Turnhout