Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Peadar Tóibín - PQ 11064-26
Deputy Tóibín asked about ambulances being unable to leave hospital due to an inability to admit a patient. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: February 2026
Updated: March 2026
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Question from Deputy Peadar Tóibín - PQ 11064-26
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health the number of times ambulances in each ambulance station in the country have been unable to leave hospital due to an inability to admit a patient to the emergency department or due to the fact that an ambulance trolley was being occupied by a patient inside the hospital in each of the past ten years, in tabular form.
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