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Leave is cancelled while the service is at Level 3 of its capacity action plan.
The strike commences at 2pm today and will remain in place until 2pm on Saturday.
The system will be rolled out throughout the country over the next few years.
“I cannot explain how grateful I am to the people of Dublin who have been the most friendly and thoughtful people I have ever met”
Most of the call-outs were related to drink and drugs.
An “astounding” number of people tried to photograph an incident yesterday in which a two-year-old girl was killed.
The patient was being brought from Cavan General Hospital to Beaumont Hospital when the incident occurred between junctions 8 and 9 of the M3 near Navan at 1.20am.
Everything happening in Leinster House today.
The party has tabled a motion on the ambulance service for debate in the Dáil tonight and tomorrow and reckons that the service needs 400 extra staff.
Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibín said the current system was unacceptable. Minister Howlin told the Dáil a HIQA review would lead to a ‘refined and improved’ service.
A protest against the ambulance service being transferred from Dublin Fire Brigade to the HSE took place in Dublin this evening.
Shirley McEntee, the ambulance controller who featured in last week’s Prime Time investigation, said she expected a backlash from her employer.
Martin Dunne has stood by his words on a Prime Time investigation which detailed major shortcomings in the National Ambulance Service.
A second ambulance sent to transport the baby is also believed to have developed mechanical problems before eventually reaching Dublin from Cork.
Consultants at the hospital said this week that the hospital is providing a safer service since the closure of the Emergency Department.
The service is currently provided by both the Dublin Fire Brigade and the HSE’s National Ambulance service.
Tens of thousands are expected to turn out for ‘seven to ten’ large-scale protests around the country, organised to fight cuts to front-line services.
Kildare TD says cutbacks in ambulance services that will see night time service curtailed is “a disgrace”.
Gerald Nash has called for an inquiry after an ambulance had to be requested from a town 25km away to handle an accident in which a pedestrian died in Drogheda yesterday evening.
Fire and ambulance personnel are being delayed from attending callouts, as addresses in some areas are so vague.