Mr. Robert Morton:

I guess you could probably say the same about the rest of the country. The rest of the country has one ambulance service as does south county Dublin. The longer-term plan, from a capacity development perspective, is to relocate Loughlinstown ambulance station. Where it is currently, it is hemmed in by residential growth. There is a need to grow services and capacity in the south Dublin area. We have a significant growth pattern in Bray, an area that is often served by the Loughlinstown station. We are planning to have new capital development somewhere at the bottom of the M50 area in which to grow services in that whole area generally. We have a range of services operating there, including pre-hospital emergency care services and intermediate care services, as well as a motorcycle response unit. By way of a support to the services in south county Dublin, as St. Vincent's is a model of a large tertiary receiving hospital, many of our resources that will feed into St. Vincent's will often respond to calls while travelling back down the N11. There is a longer-term plan on the part of the NAS to grow services in the south county Dublin.