Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I want to come back to the issue of the Ambulance Service. The newspaper article pretty much said that the costs for providing the service have risen steadily and the cost to the Dublin Fire Brigade emergency ambulance service is expected to reach just less than €26 million. As we know, the amount that has been allocated from the HSE is €9.19 million, so there is €16.55 million in running costs for the service. Mr. Owen Keegan said:

Anybody else would have withdrawn the service long before now. But there’s a huge commitment among the staff, and I think it’s important that we will support them. And we’ve done that and the HSE have exploited that to the hilt.

That was the article. Is it costing Dublin City Council more to run its ambulances than it is costing-----