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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: 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Over what time period would that be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: I need to come back in once more. I have to put it to Mr. Morton again that the response times are completely unacceptable. The percentage increase in the targets which are not being met is also really concerning. I received a submission from a qualified paramedic, titled the failure of the recruitment campaign, NRS02294. I want to read one paragraph from it and for Mr. Morton to respond...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: I will start with the different types of response calls. Clinical status 1, the life-threatening cases, are the ones we need to respond to as quickly as possible. They are echo and delta calls. We then have Charlie and bravo calls, which are clinical status 2, serious but not life-threatening, and alpha and omega calls, which are clinical status 3, non-serious or life-threatening. Are any...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: There is some evidence to suggest that. We hear a lot about the offload turnaround time in hospitals, which have unfortunately increased, as Mr. Keeley noted in his opening statement, through no fault of paramedics. We hear about ambulances parked outside hospitals from which patients cannot be disembarked because no bed or capacity is available. Is that a growing problem? During the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Mr. Keeley is saying it is a problem but a contingency plan is now in place. More is being done to alleviate that problem.
- 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 the Brady-Flaherty report. It has been mentioned by a number of witnesses, including Mr. Morton. This committee requested that it be furnished with the report. Before they leave, will the witnesses confirm whether there is any impediment to them giving this committee the report? Do they have to get permission from Dublin City Council or the Minister or can they make...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: Exactly, and most of it was serialised in a newspaper anyway. I ask for that to be done. Were the recommendations of the report fully implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: When we get a copy of the report, we could be back asking the witnesses to identify the recommendations that have not been implemented and asking for the reason or rationale. Am I correct that Mr. Damien McCallion commissioned that report? He is now in a senior position in the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
David Cullinane: I think it was.
- 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?