Mr. Niall Twomey:

No, Mr. Conroy has described it brilliantly. I would like to come in on two of the questions posed earlier. One related to the strong spirit of volunteerism in this country and the other was about the tasks undertaken during Covid. I will give one example. At Christmas time in 2021, a 14-year-old boy from Bantry in west Cork was in the national children's hospital. He had been paralysed from the waist down. The resources of the National Ambulance Service were fully stretched at the time so Dublin Civil Defence collected that boy at 2 p.m. on Christmas Eve and drove him all the way to Bantry. He was met there by his family. The boy and his mother had not been home in three months. The Civil Defence team turned up about an hour later, at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve, and drove all the way back to Dublin. That is a perfect example of the exceptional professionalism and volunteerism of our members. It sums it up perfectly. The team comprised the Civil Defence officer in Dublin, the assistant officer and one of the senior volunteers.