Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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758. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of an incident which occurred on 20 October 2015 at a school (details supplied) in County Louth in which an ambulance called to the scene of an accidental fall took 57 minutes to arrive; that when queried, the ambulance staff cited a service outage as the reason for this; his views on the impact of a service outage on the ambulance service; the back-up systems that exist to mitigate this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37871/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I understand that the National Ambulance Service is undertaking an internal review of this particular incident. I have therefore asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up..