Mr. Pat Healy:

Utilising that resource and expanding those training programmes to bigger numbers is probably the number one thing. It has taken quite a bit to get that, and it is successful. We are getting the Cork college off the ground. We have an interim arrangement in Ringaskiddy, but we are building a permanent facility in Youghal. The design team is being put in place. That will be built as a significant new €20 million investment. We have to put the arrangements in place to expand the training in a significant way. I hope we do, and we will come to a resolution on the roles and responsibilities issues that exist. When we do that, we will expand the advanced paramedic training.

Looking at alternative care pathways, enhanced community care and so on, we will also hopefully, as is a real ambition of mine, train more community paramedics. That is significant, and I am trying to signal that we do not have the resources to do all that now, but we will in the future. There is a commitment in the Sláintecare programme. We are having in particular areas of that. The NAS has a huge role to play in that broader remit. I would like to see that developed. We will deal with that comprehensively in the three- to five-year plan.