Mr. Maurice Treacy:

What we have been trying to do in this section is to create an accepted definition of the ambulance service. The issue of doctors speeding to a genuine emergency has been put to us but our feeling is that is a whole different category and something we would need to think about in detail. The Minister says most of these doctors would not be specifically trained for the purpose of driving an emergency vehicle and all of the ambulance drivers, Garda and fire authority drivers must be trained to a very high standard to be able to use the blue lights.