Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Ambulance Service: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Pat Healy:
Not at all with regard to ambulance calls. Where that comes into play is the intermediate care service and that is why I specifically addressed that in the opening statement and the briefing. We have an intermediate care service, which we have committed to. It is significant and does a very good job. There are times where the hospitals require, for expediency, access to additionality in private provision. The balance in that has probably shifted where the hospitals, through the regions, engage a lot of additional private provision in order to do that. What we have looked, in particular with the establishment of the national service-----
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