Another story has emerged over ambulance response times in Donegal.

This week, a young boy with profound disabilities took seriously ill in the south west area of the county.

His mother dialled 999 and the ambulance took an hour and a half to reach their home.

It follows another incident in recent weeks where an elderly man had to wait several hours for an ambulance after suffering a fall outside his house.

Speaking in the Seanad, Fine Gael Senator Manus Boyle once again calls for an urgent review into the ambulance service in the county: