Mr. Robert Morton:

An important point of clarification is that when students from UL go to the UK, they do not practice as paramedics. That is the difference. They are going to the UK to get experience but they are not getting experience as paramedics; they are actually practising as what is known in the UK as an associate ambulance practitioner, which is equivalent to our emergency medical technician in Ireland. That is a flaw in the process, which is why we have been working very closely with our colleagues in UL to get to a point where we are asking why we cannot do an internship model here and give the students practical experience as a paramedic intern rather than as what is referred to as an associate ambulance practitioner in the UK.