Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 December 2025
570. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when local authorities will be notified of successful applications for funding for capital projects under the 2026-2030 Fire Services Capital Programme. [71770/25]
View answerThe provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of fire station premises, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the Fire Services Act 1981. My Department supports the fire authorities through setting general policy, providing a central training programme, issuing guidance on operational and other related matters and providing capital funding for priority infrastructural projects.
All local authorities have responded to a request for infrastructural priorities for inclusion in the 2026 – 2030. My Department will work closely with the local authorities to progress their identified priority infrastructural projects, within the context of the totality of requests from fire authorities countrywide for capital funding. My Department will move then to formalise the Fire Services Capital Programme.
