Seán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the teams from the NAS and Dublin Fire Brigade. I wish to put on record my thanks to the NAS, the HSE and the Government for the new ambulance bases in Tuam and Mallaranny in the west of Ireland and the extra ambulance team in Galway city. There was a commitment initially to a new deployment base in Connemara but that has been extended now to a commitment to a full-time ambulance base in the region, and I welcome that.

There has been reference to response times and population centres and so on, but what areas are the witnesses now considering in the context of geographical black spots?