James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In order to drive improvements in response times, the bar has been raised this year and a new target has been set in the national service plan for 80% of all life threatening calls to be responded to in less than 19 minutes this year. It is worth noting that when this Government took office, as I said, there were no response time targets at all as the previous Government was not even measuring them.

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