Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Ambulance Service: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Robert Morton:

Overall, the response times in Donegal are actually among the best in the country. It probably does not feel that way but that is the truth of the situation. We have a very strong memorandum of understanding, for example, with our colleagues in the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, which does help to some extent. While we have a 24-hour ambulance in Dunloe and we have one in Killybegs, I would completely accept that in somewhere like south Donegal, they are light. When they are gone, they are gone. I completely accept that. The only solution in rural Ireland is actually more resource.