Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion

Mr. Robert Morton:

There are three numbers: the calls coming in, the responses that go out and the patients that are conveyed. Calls coming in increased by about 15% year on year. If memory serves me right, it was about 339,000 in 2021 and it shot up to 379,000 in 2022. The Deputy referred to the winter period. There was a daily average of 1,835 over the three months of that period but we had days which exceeded 2,000 calls. That is double the average, which is about 1,000 per day.

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