Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority

5:20 pm

Ms Mary Dunnion:

I do not think we carried out such an inspection. We conducted a hygiene audit of Louth County Hospital so would not have looked at pre-emergency hospital care services. We did witness and experience, in a review, that ambulances broke. That situation was reported by all of the focus groups and would have been witnessed by our reviewers while they went to collect a patient.