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Ambulance Service

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 June 2026

Tuesday, 23 June 2026

Ceisteanna (736)

Mairéad Farrell

Mairéad Farrell

Mairéad Farrell

Ceist:

736. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if the pre-hospital emergency care council intends to re-instate the pre-pandemic minimum care standard that required ambulance crews to be composed of at least two qualified paramedics, instead of a paramedic and an EMT; the reason a lessening of care standards in a pre-hospital context, post-pandemic, has been permitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47210/26]

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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Minister for Health (Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill)

PHECC have advised my Department that the current PHECC minimum crewing model for an emergency ambulance is two PHECC-registered practitioners, one of whom must be at the level of Paramedic or higher.

Whilst a temporary crewing model was in place to respond to the particular circumstances of COVID-19, the minimum crewing model in place today is unchanged from that which pertained prior to COVID-19.

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