464. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health the reason emergency ambulances are disallowed from transporting patients from home to district or community hospitals, even when they are requested to do so by a local GP; the reason that in one case when the emergency ambulance arrived to take a patient to the local district hospital two miles away, the ambulance staff realised the patient was to be taken to a district hospital and said they were debarred from doing this and could only take the patient to a hospital with an accident and emergency department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11532/16]

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464. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health the reason emergency ambulances are disallowed from transporting patients from home to district or community hospitals, even when they are requested to do so by a local GP; the reason that in one case when the emergency ambulance arrived to take a patient to the local district hospital two miles away, the ambulance staff realised the patient was to be taken to a district hospital and said they were debarred from doing this and could only take the patient to a hospital with an accident and emergency department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11532/16]

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