Ambulance workers to set ballot for strike action

Siptu ambulance staff are to ballot for strike action over, what their union says, is the continued refusal of Health Minister Leo Varadkar to publish a national capacity review of the service.

Siptu ambulance staff are to ballot for strike action over, what their union says, is the continued refusal of acting Health Minister Leo Varadkar to publish a national capacity review of the service.

Addressing the annual general meeting of the union’s ambulance sector today, Siptu health division organiser, Paul Bell said: “Our members have been waiting months for the minister to live up to his commitment to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health in February 2014 that he would publish this review in speedy manner.