Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Earlier, in one of her soliloquies that passes for a reply, the Tánaiste raised the emergency services, in particular the Dublin Fire Brigade.

She praised its wonderful record and said she trusts what the fire officers say, and so say all of us for all of our emergency services. A number of years ago we tabled a Bill on the protection of emergency workers, which would have applied to An Garda Síochána and all other emergency workers. I raise the issue in light of the increased number of attacks on members of the Garda in recent weeks and months. The Bill was voted down by the Government pending legislation to be introduced by it. That was in 2012 and it is now 2015. Does the Government have any plans to introduce legislation to penalise people specifically for attacking or endangering the lives of anybody in the emergency services?

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