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.

I am very sorry to hear about that gentleman's experience and I hope he makes a good and full recovery. We are continuously investing in and expanding our ambulance service. The Deputy mentioned that the man was airlifted to a hospital. Twelve years ago, there was no helicopter ambulance service whatsoever. Now, we have two, and we are continuing to invest in first responders, ambulances, ambulance stations and helicopters. I know we have more to do in terms of investment, and that is planned. There will also be occasions when multiple calls happen at the one time, however. Even the best ambulance service in the world - which we do not have, by the way - will struggle when it has several emergency calls happening at the same time.