Seán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Is it impacting on response times? Obviously, it is a measure that has been put in place to ensure that there is an ambulance on the road to meet a patient but, unfortunately, if that ambulance has been taken away from its home area that means if there is an incident or a call-out in the home locality there will be no ambulance. If my understanding is correct, under the old methodology ambulances were provided in geographical areas and they were not permitted to operate outside of those areas. I can see that that might not have worked well either if there was a call-out on the border of a geographical area and the ambulance was elsewhere. In regard to the changes that are being recommended, will they improve delivery of the valuable services?