Funding is set to be provided for 11 extra staff, including a paramedic supervisor and a clinical supervisor, and two extra vehicles. An extra ambulance will be available 12 hours a day, seven days a week, along with a rapid response vehicle.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly made the commitment to Galway West Fianna Fail TD Eamon Ó Cuív while visiting Galway’s vaccination base in Ballybrit earlier this week.
Improvements to the region's ambulance service have long been requested. Currently the only ambulance bases in the area are at Carraroe and Clifden with no backup in case of a second emergency.
An appropriate location for the new service has yet to be decided upon. The National Ambulance Service will consult with local stakeholders to decide a setting by the year's end.
Galway is currently home to the nation's most overcrowded hospital.
The latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show there are currently 30 people on trolleys in the emergency department at University Hospital Galway.
