Mr. Jack Nolan:

The issue of providing call and response times surfaces regularly in the Health Service Executive, HSE, for ambulance services, etc. We do not have a particular indicator on that. In the areas where the CAD system operates gardaí who attend a scene will announce that they are at scene. From that time it is possible to measure the time taken to get to the scene. Most of the CAD systems are in the large urban areas, Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Galway. They do not apply to rural Ireland but it would give us a better indicator of the amount of time to get to a call in a rural location.