Mr. Robert Morton:

Within our current financial envelope we aim to train 400 staff in 2022. That is 200 paramedics and 200 emergency medical technicians, EMTs. We need EMTs for our intermediate care service and on emergency ambulances. In 2022 we also need to begin to increase our educational capacity. One of our rate limiting factors at present is our ability to educate people. This includes internships. It means interns have to have one year's experience on an ambulance. There are only so many places in the country where we can put interns. As the capacity of the National Ambulance Service grows, its educational capacity grows with it. It will be an incremental process. This will not be quick. It will take at least five years to get well under the bonnet of this issue.