A team of emergency paramedics will now be available to treat people injured in marine accidents on board a Coast Guard helicopter.
Paramedics will no longer have to wait on land for those injured at sea while the Coast Guard rescues them. The Marine Ambulance Response Team will be based in Dublin Airport and its deployment co-ordinated by the Irish Coast Guard.
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