Paramedics to withdraw voluntary cover
A third of HSE paramedics — the 500 represented by the National Ambulance Service Representative Association (NASRA) — will take action from Friday of next week. They will withdraw use of their personal mobile phones, laptops and satellite navigation systems, for work purposes, and personnel will also refuse to make themselves available for coverage of sporting and other events they are not rostered for.
NASRA chairman Michael Dixon said the members felt they had been backed into a corner by the Croke Park II process and had no choice but to try to defend their pay.
