This year I provided an additional £620,000 to the South-Eastern Health Board for the development of its ambulance service and a sum of £125,000 for the commissioning of a new ambulance command and control centre at Wexford General Hospital. This is the highest level of funding which has been provided to the board in a single year since the publication of the report of the review group of the ambulance service in 1993 and brings to approximately £2 million the total funding made available to the South-Eastern Health Board for this purpose. It is a matter for the board to identify the priority areas it wishes to develop in relation to the implementation of the report's recommendations, including the provision of two person crewing.