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:

At the moment, there are 577 vehicles. Of that number, approximately 340 are emergency ambulances. The balance is a range of other vehicles, including intermediate care vehicles that are used for interfacility transfers and rapid response vehicles.

There are 90 specialist vehicles or specialist equipment carriers, most of which were procured during the Covid period. These are the vehicles that set up mobile swabbing and vaccination centres and so on. That is the overall breakdown but in terms of the number of emergency ambulances, we have about 340.