Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein)
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137. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent by the HSE in 2016 on hiring private ambulances in counties Laois, Kildare and Offaly. [27645/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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In the context of the continued increase in demand for emergency ambulance services in recent years, there is at times, a need to avail of private ambulance services to secure additional capacity for patient transfers. To this end, the HSE has put in place arrangements under a framework agreement, which provides for the utilisation of private ambulance providers.

The following table lists the expenditure in 2016 by Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore, Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise and Naas General Hospital on private ambulance provision.

Private Ambulance Expenditure 2016 - Laois, Offaly and Kildare