Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail)
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The committee will have to look seriously at that because it is not good enough. The councils are obliged to provide a lot of services to communities. The Department is not meeting its obligation, as far as I am concerned. If the council was not willing to provide premises or spend money on those premises, where would the Civil Defence operate from? It is ridiculous. The Department surely has an obligation to provide funding to local authorities to provide premises for these volunteers who are carrying out such a worthy duty on behalf of the public and the Department, which has an obligation to provide 70% of the funding towards the Civil Defence. Is it supposed to operate out of the back of vans?