Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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434. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of private ambulance cover incurred by each acute hospital for the past 12 months; the number of such individual private ambulance journeys; the method of charging agreed (details supplied); the name of the companies involved; the amount received by each such ambulance company; the reason such private ambulances were used; the number of HSE or hospital owned ambulances attached or available to each such acute hospital; the number of such HSE ambulances normally available to each such acute hospital that were not available by acute hospital and a private ambulance had to be used; the cost of the national ambulance budget for 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7303/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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As the queries raised by the Deputy relate to a service issue, I have asked the HSE to respond to him directly.