Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms O'Keeffe for that reply and for her opening statement. I acknowledge that 391 lives were saved in 2020. It can never be forgotten that this service is there. Is it more difficult to get volunteers? We spoke earlier about a churn of people coming and going and so on. I am not sure whether that was in relation to full-time staff or volunteers. Does Ms O'Keeffe have an indication of whether these are volunteers with ten, 20, 40 or 50 years of service? Are they staying a long time or is there a big churn of people? As and when the economy picks up, it will presumably be harder again to get volunteers involved.