Dr. Mike O'Connor:

The purpose, and we did mention it earlier on, was that there would be a national ambulance person deployed in the emergency department to take patients from the inbound crews, which will then go back to doing the job they do so well. This has been piloted in Wexford and it proved very effective from the point of view of handover delays. On the basis of that Wexford pilot, the National Ambulance Service, which is very focused and always looking to the future, is looking to roll this out across the hospitals.