Ambulance Service
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-22
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Claire Kerrane (SF), Roscommon-Galway

I thank the Minister. The advanced paramedic roster, which includes four advanced paramedics, has been in difficultly for some time. I have been raising this issue for about a year and a half and I met the director of the National Ambulance Service last year on the matter. For the last year and a half or so, paramedics have been put on the advanced paramedic roster. The overtime was in place for that Monday night and it is no longer there, yet there are four people on the advanced paramedic roster. One of them is a paramedic, while the third is an advanced paramedic, which I welcome, but the issue is not that we cannot fill the AP roster such that we cannot have the RRV on the road 24-7. That has been an issue for about a year and a half and the RRV has been on the road. The service has no problem using a paramedic on the AP roster, which is entirely wrong but that is what it has been doing. I am certain it is about overtime being pulled. It is not for want of filling the post, given there are four people on the roster. It is the overtime being pulled that I am trying to get to the bottom of.

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Sitting date: 2026-01-22