Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)

I wish to move on to another aspect of intermediate care. This is one of the most concerning issues that was brought to my attention in the run-up to this meeting. I was told that the intermediate care vehicles were being sent to road traffic collisions, often lacking essential equipment, such as vacuum mattresses. As a result of that, where there is not a vacuum mattress to transfer a patient if required, that ambulance needs to wait for another ambulance to present, and then the patient can be transferred. Is that true?