Orla Considine

We don't feel that, you know, that anybody who's critically ill or in emergency needs an ambulance.

is going to be jeopardised today by us.

We have people on duty and we have people on standby if that capacity, you know, if there's a life-threatening emergency, we have people on standby for that.

You know, it's not our job to do routine transfers to hospital for appointments.

So nobody is missing out on care that they should be getting because of this.

Well, at the minute, we're not aware that anybody is missing out.

There may be.

So our service responds to calls which go from a low-acuity Omega who might be somebody who can't get to see a GP,

And somebody decides, well, then a medical person needs to see them.

And that person might be responded to by an ambulance.

Yes, that may be the case.

That may be the case.

But anything that is a life threatening call will absolutely be responded to.

Yeah, I know.

The Dublin region is serviced by two ambulance services.

So the DFB, the Dublin Fire Brigade, provide the emergency ambulance service.

to a particular part of Dublin and the National Ambulance Service support the rest of the parts of Dublin.

So that's an operational decision in Dublin and most of the ambulances around the city are operated by Dublin Fire Brigade.

So it's not that the ambulance won't attend on its own.

That's their operational procedure.