Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Ambulance Response Times: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. Paul P. Bell:

No problem. The first matter with which I will deal is the capacity review. I can understand why Deputies Seamus Healy and Peter Fitzpatrick raised issues relating to their individual constituencies. What would a capacity review involve? The first thing we need to know is whether all ambulance services are deployed in the correct locations. In that context, consideration would have to be given to geographic spread and demographics. The second aspect is that key performance indicators have to form part of the overall capacity review in order to understand whether they are achievable. The point we have made is that before the recommendations contained in the HIQA report were published, it was very clearly understood that they were recommendations. There was a question about whether the National Ambulance Service-----

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