I have watched it all. I am sure Deputy Boyd Barrett has too.

I spoke yesterday to a paramedic who told me that morale in the ambulance service is in the gutter due to the long-running and ongoing recruitment and retention crisis. We have seen the recent capacity review by the HSE to show that we need to double the workforce in the next three years. We know industrial action has now been voted for. We know that the director of the National Ambulance Service has written to management across the State to say he is drafting a cost containment plan which will include a pause on recruitment to some posts. Paramedics are under huge pressure. There is a particular issue in the west and in the midlands. I know that a recent presentation on call volumes put north Roscommon, Boyle and Carrick at the top of the list, yet it seems an additional resource is going in elsewhere in the west. I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that where it is proven resources are needed, that is exactly where resources should go. I appreciate that is a specific issue, but on the wider issue of recruitment and retention, we seem to have a crisis in the retained fire service, the ambulance service and the Garda. I ask that the Taoiseach look at that crisis of recruitment and retention across our emergency responders. It very much needs to be looked at.

We are looking at it and taking it very seriously all the time. We have full employment now in Ireland - probably beyond full employment at this stage. There are more vacancies available than there are people with the skills to fill them. We see that in the public sector and the private sector. We see it in all parts of the country. We see it in jobs that are well paid and jobs that are poorly paid. It does challenge us to do a number of things: train more people, allow people with skills to come here with work permits or work visas and change the way we do things. If we are going to do more, we will have to be able to do it with fewer people, and that means embracing new technologies in particular.