Written answers
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Department of Defence
Air Ambulance Service Provision
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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425. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of flights undertaken by the air ambulance in 2014 and in 2015 to date; if he will outline same, by county, in tabular form; the number of occasions when it was not possible to use the facility, owing to weather concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28574/15]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The number of flights undertaken by the Emergency Aeromedical Support (EAS) service in 2014 and in 2015 to date, by county is set out in the following tabular statement.
| 2014 | 2015 | |
|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 4 | 2 |
| Cavan | 6 | 10 |
| Clare | 16 | 9 |
| Cork | 10 | 4 |
| Donegal | 14 | 19 |
| Dublin | 0 | 0 |
| Galway | 34 | 18 |
| Kerry | 10 | 6 |
| Kildare | 2 | 2 |
| Kilkenny | 2 | 1 |
| Laois | 13 | 7 |
| Leitrim | 6 | 3 |
| Limerick | 20 | 7 |
| Longford | 21 | 8 |
| Louth | 5 | 6 |
| Mayo | 43 | 21 |
| Meath | 2 | 6 |
| Monaghan | 12 | 4 |
| Offaly | 24 | 14 |
| Roscommon | 41 | 13 |
| Sligo | 13 | 3 |
| Tipperary | 28 | 18 |
| Waterford | 3 | 1 |
| Westmeath | 19 | 4 |
| Wexford | 0 | 1 |
| Wicklow | 5 | 7 |
| Totals | 353 | 194 |
In 2014 there were 85 occasions when it was not possible to undertake an EAS mission due to weather. There were 58 such occasions to date in 2015.
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