Emergency services badly under-resourced, Cork County Council hears 

Ambulances are regularly delayed getting to emergencies due to a lack of sufficient personnel.  Picture Denis Minihane.

Cork County Council has written to Taoiseach Micheál Martin asking him to provide extra personnel in all the emergency services in the region as ambulances are regularly being delayed getting to emergencies, there are not enough gardaí on the beat, firefighters are underresourced and three Naval Service ships are tied up due to crew shortages.

The motion to directly contact the Taoiseach was tabled by Fine Gael councillor Michael Paul Murtagh and it won unanimous cross-party support.