Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is one other area. We have talked about it before, and it relates to Pathfinder. I think we all got that it keeps elderly people in particular out of emergency departments. It made more than 10,000 call outs between January and April of this year alone.

It makes sense in the context of the number of acute beds and so on. I submitted a parliamentary question in May and was informed that, again, it was not included in the service plan for 2024. It does not make any provision for long-term funding of the programme. From our discussion this morning, we all accept it seems to work. Is a roll-out of that service being continued or are we cutting back in some areas? I have a particular concerned relating to the National Ambulance Service, which is a key component of the Pathfinder service. One of my colleagues in County Kerry, Councillor Deirdre Ferris, was saying there was a cut in particular to rostered-----