I move amendment No. 1:—
In page 10, line 25, to delete the words "twenty-one" and substitute the word "eleven", and in line 28, to delete the word "twenty" and substitute the word "ten".
The purpose of moving this amendment is to try to provide for the position which exists at present in regard to the officers and servants of the Dublin Fire Brigade. I understand that in the case of an officer or servant of the brigade who is compelled to retire after ten years' service through physical inability to continue in his employment, the corporation has power to give certain added years' service. In the section as it stands it is proposed, of course, to give added years of service when the officer has completed 20 years and in respect of service in excess of 20 years, in fact, to double the allowance. Our submission would be that the provision which would apply in respect of the case which would arise under Section 23, sub-section (2), paragraph 3, under which an officer who has become incapable of performing his duties by reason of permanent infirmity of mind or body and has not less than ten years of pensionable service, should apply to officers of the Dublin Fire Brigade, so that added years could be granted if the local authority felt that course justified, subject, of course, to the sanction of the Minister.
