Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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74. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that have been made available by his Department to the National Ambulance Service in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11885/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Programme for a Partnership Government commits to additional annual investment in terms of ambulance personnel and vehicles. In that regard, an additional sum of €3.6m has been made available to the National Ambulance Service (NAS) in 2017, which includes €1m to fund new developments. The total funds available to the NAS this year, as set out in the National Service Plan 2017, is therefore €155m.

Development funding will be used to continue service improvements with the recruitment and training of additional staff, the development of alternative care pathways such as Hear and Treat,and the implementation of the Electronic Patient Care Record.