National Ambulance Service workers will meet later in the week to discuss what form of protest they will take after voting for industrial action.
The action is being taken by members of the SIPTU trade union in a dispute over what the union says is a failure by management to implement changes recommended in a report on the service.
SIPTU sector organiser for the ambulance service, Ted Kenny, said the union has a number of options open to it:
"There'd be a wide range of issues that we can actually implement: a work-to-rule, a ban on over-time. And then ultimately would be, if they decide that they want to pull the nuclear bottle, and actually go out on strike. But because this is the National Ambulance Service, it wouldn't be an all out strike not close, because we would be providing emergency cover".
