Hi Declan, When you look at the Northern Ireland service the NHs gave them an initial cash injection of 5 million pounds to get started. it's good to see the Charity in Cork back up and running but they need some governent funds.
I belive that the EAS service should be tendered out to Civil, As you know there are short of crew and they could be re-deployed to other tasks.
The Gasu heli appears to be a heavy machine, I've seen a lot of Air Support units in USA that are capable of multi roles,
Anyways- sorry to go off subject.