Questions from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 38862-26, 38863-26, 38864-26, 38866-26, 38877-26, 38878-26, 38879-26, 38881-26, 38882-26, 38884-26, 38927-26 and 38928-26

To ask the Minister for Health whether any patient safety review, adverse incident

review, or clinical governance review has examined the impact of prolonged ambulance

dispatch or allocation delays on patient outcomes since 2020; and if so, to provide details. [38862/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service operates under

any internally defined escalation thresholds for excessive dispatch delay, delayed resource

allocation, or prolonged queue times for emergency incidents; and if so, to provide details. [38863/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether any review has been conducted regarding

whether Ireland’s current ambulance dispatch governance framework aligns with international

best practice standards in comparable jurisdictions; and if so, to provide details. [38864/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether the Department or the HSE maintains any

national dataset recording ambulance incidents where dispatch allocation exceeded a

specified time threshold; and if not, whether consideration has been given to establishing such

reporting mechanisms. [38866/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service defines any

ambulance response delay duration as constituting a potential patient safety incident in and

of itself; and if so, the thresholds applied. [38877/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether any ambulance delays exceeding 60 minutes

resulted in incident reviews, serious incident assessments, or patient-safety escalations in

2024, 2025 or to date in 2026. [38878/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE Incident Management Framework

contains any specific provisions relating to prolonged ambulance response delays. [38879/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether HIQA has ever been requested to examine

governance arrangements relating to prolonged ambulance response times. [38881/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether ambulance delays are incorporated into any

corporate, enterprise, or clinical risk registers maintained by the HSE or National Ambulance

Service. [38882/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether any internal review has examined whether

prolonged ambulance delays should constitute automatically reportable adverse incidents.[38884/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether any formal audit, external review, internal

review, incident analysis, or governance assessment of ambulance dispatch delays has been

conducted by the HSE, National Ambulance Service, HIQA, PHECC, or any external body

since 2020; and if so, to provide details, including dates and findings. [38927/26]

To ask the Minister for Health whether the absence of defined national maximum

ambulance dispatch-time thresholds has been recorded on any HSE, National Ambulance

Service, Department of Health, or associated risk register since 2020; and if so, to provide the

risk category, current status, and mitigation measures. [38928/26]