Mr. Colin Bell:

We receive many requests. Yesterday, we received a request from a Deputy regarding a young fellow in Canada who suffered a brain injury. We can contribute to these cases but our mission statement is to bring home bodies. If we had more than enough money, we would consider bringing home seriously injured people but we must consider the cost of air ambulances. A particular family was quoted approximately £40,000 to bring somebody home from Spain. We are well supported but if this cost was arose two or three times, we would be wiped out. It is heartbreaking for us. We receive requests and we can offer donations towards the cost, but it is far outside our league to be honest. We also receive requests regarding, for example, the repatriation of a Polish or Lithuanian person who has been killed in car crash in Ireland having lived here for years. We can only go through our mission statement. We can make a donation in such a case but there is only so much we can do.