Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Morton:

It is a myth, not a fact. If we send two vehicles, it depends on the clinical criteria of the call. In the case of a cardiac arrest, for example, we send two resources as a matter of clinical requirement, to make sure there are three to four practitioners or responders on scene. That is the only circumstance where we send two vehicles. We never send two vehicles because of a mechanical issue.