Mr. Bill Forbes:

Memorandums of understanding have already been signed off and agreed between the National Ambulance Service in the South and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service in Northern Ireland. There is mutual working between those services. Both services work on a daily basis to ensure a timely response, or a more timely response, to a 999 call. There would be daily workings between both jurisdictions. The National Ambulance Service in the Republic of Ireland may ask for the assistance of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service when it is geographically closer to respond to a call, for example in the Inishowen area of County Donegal. That happens on a regular basis, and vice versa. The National Ambulance Service provided significant resources when the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service was under extreme staffing pressures. That works very well.