Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent)
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768. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the HSE national ambulance service implementing a dynamic deployment system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33697/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The 2014 HIQA report into prehospital emergency care highlighted the dynamic deployment process of emergency ambulance resources as a way to improve response times and National Ambulance Service (NAS) performance generally.  The dynamic model of deployment is in line with international best practice and allows the NAS to prioritise resource allocation to the higher acuity calls that require an immediate emergency response.  It also allows the NAS to categorise non-serious or non-life- threatening calls, and to provide a resource appropriate to the patient’s clinical need. 

Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent)
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769. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the HSE national ambulance service being permitted to transport patients by ambulance to injury units at St. John's, Nenagh and Ennis hospitals if their injuries can be treated at such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33698/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.