Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Like other members, I pay tribute to all our firefighters and ambulance drivers and crews for the fantastic work they do on the front line for us all. I might begin with the NAS and the percentage of echo and delta calls that was mentioned as having been responded to within an appropriate timeframe. Mr. Morton stated the service had met the key performance indicator to a degree of 71% for echo calls. Will he give some facts and figures on the remaining 29%? That is more than one quarter of calls that were not responded to within an appropriate or acceptable period. What is the breakdown of that 29%? How bad is the issue?