Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion

Mr. Robert Morton:

The key issue around capacity generally is that demand rises faster in a large urban area like Dublin. On the east coast, for example, demand for ambulance services traditionally, pre-Covid-19, was rising at 4% per year, whereas it was 3% per year on the west coast. Fundamentally, this is the fallout from a lack of investment over many years.

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