A staffing crisis in the National Ambulance Service is posing a serious risk to the delivery of urgent and emergency care.
An unpublished HSE presentation, seen by The Irish Times, warns that recruitment of staff to the ambulance service is being surpassed by demand.
The report warns a target to respond within 19 minutes to life-threatening cases, would be met less than 40% of the time by 2027.
This man said his 88 year old mother was waiting for an ambulance for 15 hours in Cork, after suffering a fall at 1 o'clock in the afternoon earlier this year.
