Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The report should be published. I will speak to the Minister for Health about the up-to-date position. I understand the report received significant media attention in one publication. If a report is commissioned by a service, it should be published openly by the HSE. As I said, the HSE's national service plan had various key performance indicators regarding purple calls, which are cardiac life-threatening, and red calls, which are other life-threatening calls, to be responded to within 18 minutes and 59 seconds. There is a load of data in that regard which indicates it exceeded those targets. There is a broader question regarding the incidences the Deputy outlined of excessive waiting times, people waiting far too long and what the optimum model is to deploy. The National Ambulance Service and HSE are clear that it is informed by best international practice. We need a rational discussion, at committee or some other level, to get under the bonnet of the issue and take on board what the Deputy said.

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