Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016

9:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

The Chair is reading it factually correctly, but there is an additional piece of information I can give that changes the context of it. First of all, the 80% target, according to a demand capacity review called Lightfoot, which we published, is largely used for urban populations such as greater Manchester. With our population distribution and density, we would need to train north of 50% of our entire population as first responders to consistently meet that target. The difference between the two years is that the international classification for blue light ambulance calls changed so that more calls go into that delta category than used to be the case.

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