Today there are 631 people on trolleys, which is the highest figure of the year. The Government has responded by reintroducing a moratorium on recruitment. It is absolutely crazy. Fianna Fáil did that. That is why we are in the situation we are in. All of those trolleys are lined up because we do not have enough front-line staff. We just do not have enough staff to physically open the beds. We do not have enough staff in accident and emergency units to do the treatments. In some hospitals, three or four nurses are trying to cover the work of seven nurses. Seven ambulances were lined up at Mayo University Hospital last week because not enough front-line staff were available to do the handover, treat the patients, get them into fully staffed beds and look after them in the way that any republic should do.

Instead of doing that, we are putting a moratorium on staff. In this case, it is not about extra funding - it is about the decision to hire managerial and administrative staff rather than front-line staff. One of the Senators here gave us the figures last year. We learned that 2,603 administrative staff and managerial staff, but just 54 extra nurses, had been employed by the HSE since 2014. It is a crazy situation. We have enough HSE communications, managerial and administrative personnel. We need front-line staff. That is what is going to reduce our trolley numbers and stop the ambulances lining up outside our hospitals. It is a crazy situation. We need another debate in here with the Minister for Health, particularly on the trolley numbers.

I want to raise what has been happening with ATMs, which is not confined to the-----

You should be the right one to know.

I am sorry, but it is not a laughing matter.

It is indeed.

I will tell the Senator why it is not a laughing matter.

Get your old digger out.

It is not confined to the North or to anywhere else. The owners of two businesses with ATMs in my own community, which is a small community with not many businesses, woke up this morning to find that their premises had been smashed into and thousands of euro of damage had been done. Many small businesses are already struggling to survive because of the punitive rates and charges that are put upon them. Something has to be done. Obviously, we need extra gardaí.

However, we also need the ATMs. I am afraid that the banks will use this as an excuse to remove ATMs from this rural area. Senator Norris does not know what it is like to have to travel 30 km or 40 km to the nearest ATM but those who live in rural areas do. Something must be done to prevent ATMs being removed. The banks have a responsibility to act-----

So do the paramilitaries.

-----such as by ensuring there is anti-theft dye in the cash machines. Alternatively, more policing resources are needed. This issue is connected to that of the Garda being used to pick up the slack in the area of mental health and disability services which was discussed in the House last week. Children and young people with disabilities are being criminalised and left to be dealt with by the Garda rather than the issues being solved within the health services.