Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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125. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide recognition and professional status for highly qualified staff in the National Ambulance Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55731/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) is the regulatory body responsible for the standards, education and training in pre-hospital emergency care and as such maintains a statutory register of practitioners. 

As the employer of National Ambulance Service pre-hospital emergency care practitioners, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly with any further details that it may have on its workforce, including its paramedics.