Charity-funded air ambulance still waiting to be used despite being ready for four months

Minister for Health Simon Harris is being asked why an air ambulance service is still grounded since last January despite being ready to launch.

Cork County Council is to write to Mr Harris after the Irish Examiner highlighted that the country's first charity-funded air ambulance has been sitting in a hangar in Millstreet waiting for ministerial approval to go into service. Councillors say lives could be lost in the interim and want an explanation for the hold-up.