Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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I thank the Chairman. I have two quick questions. The first is a question I ask of An Garda Síochána a lot. I am interested in the key performance indicators, KPIs, and understand an ambulance service will always look at its indicators based on how may calls it takes and how quick it is. However, I am interested in whether the service, bearing in mind it is the first point of contact in often quite traumatic situations, is investing in training around diversity, human rights and civil rights. It is something the Garda has taken on board and started to train up staff on. What kind of recognition is there in the service of the need for that? I am aware the service did good work as part of the Covid-19 roll-out and doing mobile sites in the Travelling community. That is the kind of area I am interested in. That is my first question.

I am looking at the annual report and the financial statements from 2021 on the National Ambulance Service and there are a number of areas like the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest strategy and things like the enhancement of alternative care pathways. Will the service give us a general approach to how that aligns with the reforms of Sláintecare?