David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Why are the National Ambulance Service and the Dublin Fire Brigade not making more noise about this? I know they have published a capacity review but these response times are not good at all. They are unacceptable, to be quite frank. People depend on the ambulance service when there is an emergency. For people living in the south east, which I do, the average response time for life-threatening calls is 33 minutes when it was 21 minutes. That is an increase of 12 minutes on average for a response time. That is an average; we know some people wait longer. It is beyond unacceptable. What level of engagement is there with the Department and the HSE from the witnesses' perspective? They should be shouting from the rooftops that these figures are going in the wrong direction and will continue to go in the wrong direction unless the capacity is put in.