Reports & reviews
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National reviews of the fire service and the retained model.
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Retained Firefighters Survey: Explanatory note
Explains the NDFEM project team’s review of the retained fire service delivery model and its survey.
Explains the NDFEM review of the retained fire service model and invites retained Firefighters, including anyone who left in the last five years, to take a 15 minute anonymous survey run by Coyne Research. The survey closed on 20 December 2021.
Fire Safety in Ireland: Report of the Fire Safety Task Force
Summary of conclusions and recommendations, May 2018. The national review of fire safety set up after the Grenfell Tower fire.
Covers fire safety in multi storey social housing, the trend in fire deaths in Ireland, the systemic approach to fire safety under Keeping Communities Safe, local authority fire services and national standards, area risk categorisation, and who is legally responsible for fire safety in buildings.
Review of Fire Safety and Fire Services in Ireland: Final report
The 2002 review of fire safety and fire services prepared by Farrell Grant Sparks Consulting.
The first full review of fire safety and fire services in Ireland in over 25 years. It found no immediate unacceptable risk but called for fundamental improvements to cut fires, deaths and costs and to make better use of resources.
Report on the Fire Service, 1975
The Working Party on the Fire Service’s report to the Minister for Local Government.
Laid before the Oireachtas in July 1975. A full review of the fire service at the time: its tasks in saving life and fighting fire, fire losses, fire prevention, special services and ambulance work, and how the service was organised, with a summary of the main recommendations.
Retained Fire Services in Ireland: A Review of Recruitment and Retention
Review of recruitment, retention and the future sustainability of retained fire service delivery.
A national review, led by an NDFEM project team at the Minister’s request, of why retained fire services struggle to recruit and keep staff. It draws on local authority data, research from Northern Ireland and the UK and the first ever surveys of retained managers and Firefighters, and makes recommendations for the future.
