Mr. Ted Kenny:

It is a real flaw in the system. We bring the concerns of our membership about waiting times in accident and emergency departments to management. Ambulance service management bring those concerns to hospital management, which will discuss them. There should be a co-ordinated group. The Deputy is right and we have asked for that. Meetings should be set up with all the stakeholders, namely, accident and emergency nurses, consultants, ambulance paramedics, advanced paramedics, ambulance management, hospital management and the unions to discuss all of that and draw up a template. That should be done not only on a localised hospital basis but for all hospitals nationally.