Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wrote to the ambulance service earlier this year about this very point. We have a problem in north Roscommon and south Leitrim in that we do not have enough ambulances on the ground. A situation often arises where the ambulances are sent out of the area on a busy Saturday night in the town of Carrick-on-Shannon where we have huge numbers of people and accidents happening all over the place yet there is no ambulance service. An ambulance has to be called from Letterkenny or from Ballina to come to that area. That is no longer acceptable. We need the physical ambulance to be purchased and put into the ambulance centre either in Boyle or in Carrick-on-Shannon. The staff are available to staff it. All we need is the ambulance. I emphasise the need to put that in place as quickly as possible.

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