Dear Deputy,

The Irish Fire & Emergency Services Association is writing to every TD in the 31st Dáil Éireann to inform them that on the 23rd of September we will be holding a Protest Rally outside the Dáil. We are calling for the cuts to the Irish Fire Service to Stop and for the reforms to Start .

Time is a precious commodity, and it waits for no one. When lives are on the line, seconds count. Fractions of seconds count.

Few individuals in our lives better understand the importance of time than the men and women of the Irish Fire Service. Highly qualified public servants, trained to handle crises affecting both people and property – often simultaneously.

But now they face another danger. The danger of cuts to the funding of their service with proposed cuts to service by Local Authorities. These cuts will put the lives of Firefighters and the community they protect at risk.

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