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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I will come back to two critical issues, response time and delivery of services in Dublin. There are particular problems with response times in the south east. I met Mr. Morton and some of his colleagues and senior management in the past about that region. Before I ask about that, I will return to the issue of delivery of services and governance in Dublin. We talked about an alternative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: How did we get to a point where we allowed a situation to arise in which there is an average of 30% statewide for delta calls but only 19% in Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Mr. Morton said it was due to capacity and not enough ambulances. How does Mr. Morton think it got to that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: That does not correlate with the other information I have. I wish to come back to Mr. Morton and get a response to the different opinions on the alternative model for Dublin before the session ends. On the issue of response times, in the south east, the average response time for both delta and echo calls was 21 minutes in 2019. In 2020, it went up to 22 minutes. In 2021, it was 28 minutes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: It is quite a shocking figure, for someone who lives in the south east. It is more shocking when considering that it includes cardiac services. In County Waterford, my constituency, there is no 24-7 service for primary percutaneous coronary intervention, PPCI, as Mr. Morton will be apparent. People in counties Tipperary and Waterford and other parts of the south east have to travel by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: This is a yearly figure, so they can fluctuate. I am being fair by looking at year-on-year comparisons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I would like Mr. Morton to answer the question about the alternative model for Dublin. Everything I have heard today from both key witnesses is that there are capacity issues, more ambulances, ambulance paramedics and capacity are needed and response times are going in the wrong direction, which we can see from the figures. I do not see the urgency in the response. I do not have time to go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I am not asking that question. I am asking whether, in Mr. Morton's view, there is a difference of opinion in what the two organisations see as the best model. I understand it is a difficult question to answer because Mr. Morton may have a view of what the best model, which may differ from that of Mr. Keeley's organisation. That is partly why we are in the position we are in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: There needs to be a level of honesty about the problem is. Will Mr. Morton define what he meant by "thorny issues"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: If Mr. Morton and Mr. Keeley, for example, were given the authority to come up with an alternative model, does Mr. Morton think they would be on the same page and they could do it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I accept that. At the end of the day, it has to be about what is right for patients.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Will Mr. Keeley respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Does it include a greater role for the NAS in Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: This is one of the issues identified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I was not trying to catch anybody out. We all want the best outcome for the people of Dublin, whatever that is. We need to get that resolution as quickly as possible. I commend all the DFB's staff for the excellent work that is being done.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: commends the tireless work of frontline paramedics and operational staff in dealing with increased demand without proportional resource increases; notes that: — 80 per cent of life-threatening incidents should be responded to by an ambulance within 19 minutes, as per the Health Service Executive's (HSE) own standards; — average...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: That is not true.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: It takes a bit of a brass neck to deliver the speech that the Minister for Health delivered earlier today. It is so full of inaccuracies and mistruths, it is hard to know where to start. I will start with the first one, where he said that the Sinn Féin motion would have you believe that our NAS professionals are failing in their job. In fact, the very first line of our motion...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the removal of walk-in services from Children’s Health Ireland urgent care services; if these services will be returned; the resources required to return these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10039/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of paramedics trained by the National Ambulance Service in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, in tabular form; the planned number which will be trained in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10143/23]