Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 342: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has complied with relevant guidelines and qualifications in relation to ongoing upskilling in respect of the fire fighting services; if it is recognised that they have in fact exceeded the necessary number of points but have yet been requested to repeat or appeal the decision which determined their failure; if all other applicants are being subjected to the same criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35439/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The training of fire service personnel is the statutory duty of individual fire authorities under the Section 15.1 of the Fire Services Act 1981. Fire authorities provide initial recruit training, as well as training in the use of breathing apparatus to an agreed national syllabus, for all entrants to the fire service. While my Department's National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management provides a Central Training Programme for fire officers which complements and supplements local training programmes through a 'Train-the-Trainer' model, it does not have involvement in examining the on-going competence or training of fire fighters.