Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I remember when this tragedy occurred. I live less than three miles from where the fire took place and I know the families concerned. There was much shock at the time, locally and nationally, at what happened, namely, two firemen killed in the course of their work in what appeared to be a normal enough fire that they found themselves confronting. One of the issues was the astonishment shared by many people that a large town like Bray does not have a full-time fire service. One of the calls made at the time was for the establishment of full-time fire services under a national fire authority in large urban centres like Bray. Has any progress been made at Government level to advance the idea of the fire service being made full-time in large centres like Bray?

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