Mr. John O'Mahoney:

It will take five years for the newly constituted unit to have the same qualifications as the current team and to be available for full service. We know it will take five years because at one stage Mr. Lucas took a year out and when he came back he was told it would take him five years to get back to where he was in the past. If a medical doctor went to Médecins sans Frontières for a year he or she would not be told to go back to being an intern again on his or her return.