Mr. Martin Dunne:

The Deputy is correct that this will be the first time the national ambulance review has commenced a capacity review. It is probably based on international best practice, and that is the information that has been given to us. We are going through a process at the moment to make sure we can initiate an appropriate capacity review. What the capacity review will be looking at is historical data over the three to four years gone by. It will be looking at the types of patient we have been transporting, the areas where they are being transported from and where they are going. It will match that with the complement of staff and the types of vehicle we have available to us. We will be asked to future-proof it, which will hopefully go three to four years ahead of us. Again, that would be the norm across some of the bigger ambulance services across the world. It is the way they plan ahead, because one can build manpower capacity into it as resource vehicle capacity. That will be telling us where we have our resources at the moment. It will be very robust and strong in terms of telling us whether we have the right amount in the right places at the right time based on actual data. Hopefully, in the next 12 months, we will be able to sit here and discuss that with real live facts sitting in front of us and will be able to answer some of the questions that have been posed.