Mr. Niall Ferns:

We looked at the figures when preparing for today. In the past three years, in actual fact 121 volunteers have moved on. There is always a passing-through of volunteers. People join and they go on probation and they last for a year. People join and spend maybe five, ten or 20 years in the organisation. Following on from Ms O'Keeffe's piece, we had an extensive roll-out of medals and we presented some 50-year medals which, for somebody to have given that much of his or her time, is fairly impressive. There has been a net increase of 79 volunteers in recent times. While 121 have moved on, 200 have joined. Having looked at the numbers, we do not have an issue recruiting volunteers into the units as there has actually been a net increase of 79.