Ambulance services ‘at breaking point’, Dáil told amid strike action

Members of Siptu and Unite unions on the picket line outside National Ambulance Service depot in Dublin South Central (Niall Carson/PA)

The Government has refused to resolve long-standing pay, conditions and staffing issues in the National Ambulance Service, the leader of Sinn Féin has said.

The coalition came under similar charges from other opposition parties during Tuesday’s Leaders’ Questions session which largely focused on the strike by Siptu and Unite paramedics and emergency medical technicians within the NAS.