Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Ambulance Response Times: Discussion

6:50 pm

Mr. Martin Dunne:

No, we have three layers of clinician in the national ambulance service: advanced paramedic, paramedic and EMT. One is licensed at a particular level by the pre-hospital emergency care council that was alluded to, that is one's scope of practice area and one is paid at that level.