Máire Devine (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of advanced paramedics the National Ambulance Service has employed in each county in each year from 2014 through 2024 inclusive; the number of advanced paramedics the National Ambulance Service has trained in each county in each year from 2014 through 2024 inclusive, and for which specific service they are employed (National Ambulance Service, Dublin Fire Brigade, the Defence Forces, Coastguard and the Dublin Airport Fire Service, and so on); the planned salary budget for advanced paramedics in the National Ambulance Service in each year from 2014 through 2024 inclusive; and the actual salary budget for Advanced Paramedics in the National Ambulance Service in each year from 2014 through 2024, in tabular form. [4755/25]

Máire Devine (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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698. To ask the Minister for Health the number of advanced paramedics in the National Ambulance Service considered to be an appropriate and safe staffing level on a national basis; and the number of advanced paramedics considered appropriate and safe staffing levels per county, in tabular form. [4756/25]

Máire Devine (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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699. To ask the Minister for Health her Department’s plans to internally hire and train advanced paramedics for the coming year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4757/25]

Máire Devine (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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700. To ask the Minister for Health what the existing obstacles are to hiring and training advanced paramedics; how her Department plans to overcome these obstacles in detail; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4758/25]

Máire Devine (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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701. To ask the Minister for Health whether any patient deaths from 2014 through 2024 inclusive are attributed to the lack of trained advanced paramedics with the National Ambulance Service; in which county the patient lived and was treated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4759/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 697 to 701, inclusive, together.

In relation to the specific questions raised by the Deputy, pertaining to the resourcing and budgeting of the National Ambulance Service (NAS) and the training, education and deployment of NAS frontline practitioners, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

As the Deputy will be aware, questions relating to the resourcing of Dublin Fire Brigade are a matter for my colleague the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the first instance. Similarly, the resourcing of Defence Forces personnel is a matter for my colleague, the Tánaiste, and staffing matters for the the Irish Coast Guard and Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) are for my colleague the Minister for Transport to respond on.