{"id":3021,"date":"2017-03-06T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2017-03-06T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:11:55","slug":"crowe-supports-retaining-dublin-fire-brigades-emergency-medical-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-supports-retaining-dublin-fire-brigades-emergency-medical-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe supports retaining Dublin Fire Brigade\u2019s Emergency Medical Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has reiterated his support for the retention of the Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) ambulance service at a solidarity protest outside Tallaght Fire Station on the Belgard Road.<\/p>\n<p>The Sinn F\u00e9in TD said that over last 100 years the service has shown itself to be successful in delivering on public safety, and that if it isn\u2019t broken, then why the rush to change a service that is clearly working.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3023\" src=\"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170304_122730-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20170304_122730\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170304_122730-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170304_122730-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170304_122730-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170304_122730-1280x720.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI recognise the important and significant contribution that the DFB make to pre-hospital emergency care services. I am fully behind the DFB in its calls to retain the ambulance services that they provide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DFB has over 100 years of experience in providing their Emergency Medical Service. The removal of any element of DFB\u2019s Emergency Medical Service systems would potentially have an adverse effect on patient care. Experienced professionals in the DFB believe it is dangerous to both firefighters and paramedics, as well as to the people of Dublin, to try and make such drastic changes to a functional and successfully operating service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ambulance service delivered by DFB is second to none. It is economical and highly effective. The DFB responds to 80% of life threatening emergency calls within the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) recommended response time of under 8 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very much a case of if it isn\u2019t broken, and it\u2019s delivering a quality service, then why the rush\u00a0to change it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DFB\u2019s Emergency Medical Service has served Dublin city and its county well. I publicly support the fire fighter paramedics in their legitimate fight to retain this service.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has reiterated his support for the retention of the Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) ambulance service at a solidarity protest outside Tallaght Fire Station on the Belgard Road. The Sinn F\u00e9in TD said that over last 100 years the service has shown itself to be successful in delivering on public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambulance","category-dublin-fire-brigade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}