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search and rescue helicopter

  • 27-07-2011 11:21PM
    #1
    dev100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 999 ✭✭✭


    We had a discussion in work about paying for call outs for fire brigade etc. Question came up if a search and rescue heli is called out to say a mountain to air lift an injured person to hospital. Is this service free or is their a charge?


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  • #2
    Hooch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Hooch


    dev100 wrote: »
    We had a discussion in work about paying for call outs for fire brigade etc. Question came up if a search and rescue heli is called out to say a mountain to air lift an injured person to hospital. Is this service free or is their a charge?

    Totally free


  • #3
    maglite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭maglite


    NGA wrote: »
    Totally free

    And no cost to the state.

    The contact is for provision not based on hours flown. So if they don't fly at all that day it costs the Tax payer just as much as collecting someone off a hill.


  • #4
    999nobody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭999nobody


    So the only emergency service that charges a fee is the fire service ?

    Ambulance free, Gardai free, coastguard free. Bloody local councils.


  • #5
    dev100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 999 ✭✭✭dev100


    999nobody wrote: »
    So the only emergency service that charges a fee is the fire service ?

    Ambulance free, Gardai free, coastguard free. Bloody local councils.



    Do ambulances not charge a fee?


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