Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Ambulance Service: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Pat Healy:

It is spread around three colleges. We are adding Cork to that. We use University College Cork and the University of Limerick because they also have training programmes. We take them into second year. The point is that one of the things we have to do is expand the training programme. If we are going to have a sufficient number of trained and qualified personnel, we have to expand that or we will not be able to meet the demand we will have going forward. That is important. I stated earlier that we will deal with this in a comprehensive way in the three- to five-year plan that we have commenced work on, but we have taken an immediate step to do something with the 24 places in Cork. We hope that will improve things in the coming year, but more absolutely has to be done.

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