Mark Wall (Kildare South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I raise the very serious matter impacting first responders in all our communities. Recently, a number ambulance officers were informed, many of them, indeed, trained paramedics, that they could no longer park their ambulances, their vehicles, at their own homes. Instead, they will have to park them at ambulance bases and primary care centres. This is having a knock-on impact on first responder response times, particularly in relation to cardiac arrests and other emergency medical situations. We are asking for an urgent response in this regard to allow those first responders who are trained paramedics, to continue to park their vehicles at their own homes and to be allowed to respond in the quickest possible time to events within communities. It is having a serious knock-on effect and it has raised problems for these first responders.

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