Mr. Robert Morton:

In south county Dublin, we have a large ambulance station in Loughlinstown. That station provides most of the services in that area on behalf of the National Ambulance Service but as Professor O'Donnell said, we also work very closely with Dublin Fire Brigade.

There is a lot of blurring of boundary lines and interactivity on a daily basis. We speak to colleagues in the Dublin Fire Brigade usually at around 3 o'clock every day. There is a pass-over of calls and a checking-in with one another to see who has capacity and then the sharing of resource where possible.