Mr. Phelim Quinn:

Let me outline the key issue. In good governance terms, the National Ambulance Service has a policy based on two parameters - the age and mileage of a vehicle. We appreciate the latter parameter is not used in other jurisdictions but it has been set within the policy of the National Ambulance Service. The only thing we could do, in this instance, was to manage the service against its own policy and that is what formed the basis of our conclusions.