Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I want to return to something in the Dublin Fire Brigade's opening statement. Mr. Keeley said that the fire brigade requested resources from the NAS on 63,000 occasions and in 76% of these cases, the NAS was unable to provide a service. I want to unpick that because it is obviously a very high number. When the call comes in to Dublin Fire Brigade from somebody who is in the middle of Dublin who has phoned for an ambulance but the fire brigade does not have resources available out of its 14 ambulances, the fire brigade then rings the NAS. Does that happen automatically or does somebody literally pick up the phone?