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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (28 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: 658. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent staffing composition of the National Ambulance Service at 1 January 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, in tabular form; the level of staff turnover and new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10144/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Many homeowners are experiencing sharp and sudden hikes in interest rates. The vulture fund, Pepper, has warned borrowers it will hike interest rates again, with many now facing mortgage repayments which are as much as €3,500 higher than last year. It is now clear that the assurances made by Ministers that those whose mortgages were sold to vulture funds would be no worse off were...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: The Tánaiste said that the waiting times at Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Limerick are a cause for concern. They are not just a cause for concern, they are completely unacceptable. What is happening is shocking and scandalous. I put it to the Tánaiste that, in his constituency, people over the age of 75 who deserve better and who should be treated with respect...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Say that to the Minister.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Yet the Government took them out.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: I welcome the ambassador from Ukraine. We stand with the people of Ukraine. I also welcome the other guests in the Visitors Gallery. I am sure the entire House will join with me in unreservedly condemning the attack on an off-duty police officer in Omagh last night. My thoughts are with the officer injured in the shooting and his family, who will be traumatised by this attack. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses. I tabled some parliamentary questions in advance of this session so I have a breakdown of response times by region and so on, which I will reference. Mr. Keeley said a few moments ago that the Dublin Fire Brigade's ambulance services are not hitting the standards that are required. That is quite a stark statement. I do not blame him or his staff, who are obviously...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: I want to get to the response times. In terms of the Delta calls, which were referenced, the figures for last year are quite stark. Mr. Keeley might be able to explain why this is the case. In December 2022, the percentage of status 1 Delta incidents responded to within the 19 minutes was 19%. Going back to 2019 it was 33%. Only 19% of those Delta incidents were responded to within the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: I am going to get to the other figures in a second. Was there a report, the Brady-Flaherty report, done on the Dublin Fire Brigade and the wider ambulance service a number of years ago? Maybe Mr. Morton can answer that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Did that report make recommendations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Was it published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Why was it not published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Would it not be in the public interest to publish it, given that it made recommendations? I have received a copy of the report myself but it has not been published so I do not want to go into the details of what was in it. We should be seeking for that report to be published in the first instance because it raised a number of fundamental questions. We cannot be doing reports and then not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Why are the National Ambulance Service and the Dublin Fire Brigade not making more noise about this? I know they have published a capacity review but these response times are not good at all. They are unacceptable, to be quite frank. People depend on the ambulance service when there is an emergency. For people living in the south east, which I do, the average response time for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: It states in the 2022 capacity review, as Mr. Morton said, that recruitment efforts are currently being surpassed by service demand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: We are not even standing still. It is worse than that. Capacity is being overtaken by service demand. The level of additional capacity needed has been outlined, that is, a figure of over 4,000. That would be more than double the existing workforce, would it not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Is there any chance of that target being met?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Is that being done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: The submission was sent to me and I assume it was sent to others. Did Mr. Morton receive a copy of this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: When was that done? What year?