Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Morton:

I am not sure how many emergency ambulances the Scottish Ambulance Service has, but it has more than 5,000 staff, so you are right, Chairman, in the sense that the two countries have very similar demographics and similar activity levels. Scotland has about 5.3 million people and about 33 hospitals compared with our 26, so the two countries have very similar profiles and workloads, but Scotland's staff number more than double ours. Vehicle-wise, I cannot answer the question. I would have to-----