Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Ambulance Service: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Pat Healy:

What might be helpful on that point is that the trauma strategy includes that and that is the reason we are doing that review. The Deputy knows that Cork is one of the two centres, along with the Mater, and the availability of the whole aeromedical service is one of the reasons I said earlier that we need to look at that in its totality. The Deputy has often talked to me about that issue of speedy transfer by helicopter and so on. It is a-----