Ms Mary Dunnion:

The fleet would have to adhere to a certification and that is done.

The National Ambulance Service has a vehicle replacement policy based on a seven-year life cycle and whether a vehicle has reached 500,000 km in mileage. Other jurisdictions only use years and not mileage which means the National Ambulance Service applies an additional criteria. All jurisdictions have a time of seven years.

In terms of data, the NAS has recently installed a system that allows it to begin to get a total oversight of its fleet. Up until the beginning of the review it did not have such an option. The new system is to be put on all the vehicles and is being rolled out. I imagine, at the pace it was going, that by the end of the year it will have full oversight. We looked at the data that the NAS gave us and could see that 18% of the vehicles required replacement. We also saw that the timelines for its replacement policy were behind schedule so that is a challenge.