David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a number of questions to ask. I possibly will not get to all of them because our time is limited. I will direct each question at who best and appropriate to take it. If we can avoid multiple answers to the same question, that would help, because time is limited.

My first question is for Mr. Morton. Recently, the Minister for Health, speaking in the Dáil in response to a Private Member's motion regarding the National Ambulance Service, stated, "I am aware that ... the wait times for lower acuity, non-life-threatening calls have presented a particular challenge recently as the NAS has been experiencing unusually high demand [which we all accept]." I assume that relates to the Alpha, Bravo and Charlie responses. Our guests might forward to the committee a copy of the average response times over recent months, on a month-by-month basis, for this year. I do not have the time to go through it all because I want to get to the Delta and Echo response times, which are important.

Mr. Morton outlined the average time in the State in a previous response, which I acknowledge. I have submitted parliamentary questions on this issue, copies of which I have in front of me, but unfortunately the responses run only to May. Mr. Woods earlier stated that 80% of Echo calls and 70% of Delta calls should be responded to within 19 minutes. From January to November of this year, does Mr. Morton have the figures to hand, in respect of both Delta and Echo, for the percentage of calls that have come in on target?