Ambulance Service as full members of the Emergency Services!!!!

QUESTION NO:  180

DÁIL QUESTION addressed to the Minister for Health (Dr. James Reilly)

by Deputy Thomas Pringle

for WRITTEN ANSWER on 10/11/2011

*  To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to recognise the ambulance service as full members of the emergency services and provide for the same recognition for the service as the rest of the emergency services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Thomas Pringle T.D.

Read on to find out the Reply Deputy Pringle Received in Written from Minister Reilly…….

REPLY.

In 1993, a review of ambulance services in Ireland, published by the then Minister for Health confirmed that the ambulance service is an emergency service, similar to An Garda Síochána and local authority fire services.

In 2006, the Government Major Emergency Management Framework confirmed that the HSE, An Garda Síochána and local authorities were to be designated as the state’s principal response agencies and that emergency services delivered by each of these agencies would be designated as the principal emergency service of the state.

Today, the HSE National Ambulance Service is one of four designated emergency services in Ireland, the others being An Garda Síochána, local authority fire services, and the Irish Coast Guard.

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