Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Sinéad Kelleher, who is a reporter with The Kerryman, has run a front-page story today with the headline "Nightmare Ordeal". Brendan "Cap" Murphy of Portmagee suffered a horrific injury in an accident in his late mother's house on 1 June, when he fell from the attic and completely ripped his leg open to the bone from the knee down. He was left hanging upside-down for over 20 minutes before he was able to remove himself. He waited for three hours and no ambulance came. I am not blaming the ambulance people in Cahersiveen or in the Iveragh Peninsula in south Kerry. Mr. Murphy was eventually seen after three hours by a first responder car that had to come from the Dingle Peninsula. The Taoiseach knows what that journey is like. He eventually was airlifted and is at home now trying to recover from his horrific injury and the ordeal. What in the name of goodness are we going to do about the ambulance service?

We cannot have a situation on the Iveragh Peninsula where people can be left in a do-or-die situation.

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