On Friday, the 23路9月，爱尔兰消防与紧急服务协会（IFESA）将在都柏林基尔代尔街的伦斯特大厦外举行家庭友好抗议/集会。
The IFESA has addressed a letter to elected officials asking them to stand up for their country, their constituents, their emergency services, and also, stand up to the cutbacks, but asked them to “have the guts to stand up”.
这封信如下：
爱尔兰消防与紧急服务协会
车站房屋，水道，萨林斯，
Co.Kildare, Ireland.
Phone: +353 45852300, Fax: +353 45855750
网络：ifesa.ie，电子邮件：info@ifesa.ie
19/09/11
Dear Deputy,
The Irish Fire & Emergency Services Association is writing to ever 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.
我们生活中很少有人比爱尔兰消防局的男人和女人更好地理解时间的重要性。经常同时，经过培训，经过培训，经过培训，可以处理影响人和财产的危机。
但是现在他们面临着另一个危险。削减服务资金的危险是地方当局提议的削减服务的危险。这些削减将使消防员及其保护的社区的生命处于危险之中。
作为一个训练有素的消防员/护理人员我可以看到effects that cuts on service delivery will bring to the Irish Fire Service. All I have to do is look to the situation in the UK, where Firefighter deaths from 1996 to 2002 were zero and on the implementation of so called modernisation, cuts and new work practices in 2002 saw the death toll rise to over twenty Firefighters from 2002 to 2009 and injuries increase exponentially over the same period. This is the tragedy awaiting Irish Fire Fighters as Local Authorities attempt to implement so called improvement to the service to reflect what UK fire services do.
克罗克公园协议的精神是为爱尔兰公民提供更好的公共服务。我相信这可以做到，并期待改善消防服务中的服务交付。克罗克公园不应用作实施基本公共服务削减的手段。公务员提供的某些服务需要受到保护，并围绕着他们的融资。
With local councillors from around the Country set to vote on these budget reductions in the coming months , IFESA is asking the councillors if they really understand the implications of their actions and the effect it will have for their constituents? They are playing with the lives of your Community and those who elected you. Only time and future polls will tell.
爱尔兰消防与紧急服务协会一直在呼吁改革爱尔兰消防局。有一些量化的措施可以为爱尔兰消防服务节省资金，这些措施不需要削减服务提供，甚至可以改善服务提供的服务，但是既得利益集团以及环境部，社区和地方政府似乎是阻止这些可能性。为什么政府未能采取行动或实施所需的更改或承担问题的所有权？
我们看到苏格兰的整个水都在向苏格兰议会的一份声明中，司法部长肯尼·麦卡斯基尔（Kenny Macaskill）阐述了警察和消防改革的好处，这是威斯敏斯特政府大量预算的背景。
他还概述了有关苏格兰警察局和苏格兰消防与救援服务部如何免于政治干预的职责，并保护和改善苏格兰各地的当地服务的详细建议。
苏格兰的单身警察和消防服务将：
*估计每年节省1.3亿英镑和17亿英镑
*减少八名警察和八项消防与救援服务的重复和间接费用，从而释放了前线警务和消防与救援服务的资源
在爱尔兰，我们有37个消防机构，有30个消防队 /服务。这就是Ifesa一直呼吁更改的情况。
The Irish Fire & Emergency Services Association has called for the establishment of a National Fire & Ambulance service in Ireland that will deliver a Fire based emergency medical service to the citizens of Ireland. This action alone will save lives, with A&E departments closing down around the country, Irish Fire Fighters are strategically placed to respond to life threatening incidents and provide life saving interventions to the citizens of Ireland. They already provide this in Dublin where 800 Firefighter are trained Paramedics and nearly 40 Fire Fighters trained as Advanced Paramedics. They crew 12 Emergency ambulances 22 Fire Engines, 2 Rescue Tenders and various other specialist vehicles. Dublin Fire Brigade respond to over 75,000 medical emergencies in Dublin a year that is in addition to their Fire & Rescue operations .This cover is provided to apx 1.2million people. Dublin reportedly has the second best out of hospital Cardiac Arrests survival rate in the world according to Dublin Fire Brigade management. Dublin Fire Brigade operate a Fire based EMS system to the people of Dublin and has provide an ambulance service to the citizens of Dublin since 1898.
We have to accept the need for fundamental change and reform in the Irish fire service. We have to accept that a structure that evolved when Ireland was a very different country, largely agricultural with relatively small numbers living in towns and cities can no longer provide us with the level of safety and protection needed.
We need to end a situation where the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, have all of the power without any of the responsibility. They can effectively walk away from any disaster and lay the blame at the doors of the Local Authority.
With Local Authorities budgets being slashed around the country the government seems to have washed their hands of the problems in the Irish Fire Service. If the deaths of Fire Fighter Brian Murray & Mark O’Shaughnessy in Bray in 2007 cannot achieve change or wake up the establishment to the problems, what将要？我们是否需要另一个悲惨的事件，例如1972年3月在都柏林帕内尔街的Noyeks Fire杀死八个人，1980年8月，邦德兰中央酒店的大火杀死十人们，包括五个孩子，甚至还有另一场星尘灾难，夺走了生命四十九young people on St. Valentines Night 1981.
The Irish Fire & Emergency Services Association fear that another such tragedy is what it is going to take for people and the authorities to take notice.
With the greatest respect Deputy,
STAND UP FOR YOUR COUNTRY,
为您的选民站起来
为您的紧急服务站起来
站在削减处
BUT HAVE THE GUTS TO STAND UP
此致
约翰·基德（John Kidd）
爱尔兰消防与紧急服务协会主席。
Vice President, European Fire Fighters Union Alliance.
