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

That is a line the director has given to me as well. However, Roscommon, Nenagh and Ennis all lost their accident and emergency departments and were all given a commitment to a 24-7 rapid response. Nenagh and Ennis had an action card that was put out there by the National Ambulance Service to protect the rapid response vehicle. Nenagh and Ennis got it but Roscommon did not. I am confident that if that same protection for the rapid response vehicle was put in place in Roscommon, that role would be filled. What is happening at the minute and what I am hearing back is that advanced paramedics were sent, in one recent case, to check an alarm that was going off. The RRV is protected in Nenagh and Ennis and they do not have these issues and the AP is never replaced on their roster with a paramedic. I am just asking for the same action card and the same protection for what is an entire county, unlike Nenagh and Ennis. We have a very rural constituency. I am not shouting and roaring about this issue but I am genuinely concerned that we are without this. It has been in place since 2011 and has no doubt saved lives. I really believe we deserve that cover.

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Sitting date: 2026-01-22