Mr. Alan Carr:

Mountain rescue teams are composed of volunteers, but there is another element to that. They are an emergency response volunteer service. They are tasked by the 999 service, and because they are a 999 service the service must be sufficient to the job it sets out to do. In recent years each team has, at a national level, sought corporate assistance and so on, with mixed success. However, it is an important principle that a 999 emergency response service should not be dependent on a successful, or unsuccessful, fund-raising campaign, especially when the State is investing in bringing tourists into the country.