Question 15119 — security of property and people

Summary

Mr. Sylvain Carrière alerts the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior on the urgent situation of the departmental fire and rescue services (SDIS). SDIS are on the front line facing the consequences of global warming and the multiplication of natural and technological risks. More frequent and earlier forest fires, floods, storms or drought episodes: interventions are diversifying and are intensifying. At the same time, personal rescue missions reached more than 86% of interventions, in a context of aging of the population and disengagement of the State in health services, particularly in rural areas. However, the budgets of the SDIS do not allow them to cope with these new missions. Civil security cannot rely solely on volunteering, the SDIS needs to increase the number of professional firefighters and strengthen their services. Today, nearly 60% of SDIS funding rests with the departments, which receive a fraction of the special tax on insurance agreements (TSCA). This has been set since 2006 at 6.45% of the tax on automobile insurance contracts. However, this fraction has never been revalued for almost twenty years, even though that operating costs explode and the operational burden increases considerably. Furthermore, the distribution key for this tax revenue, based on the number of land motor vehicles registered in each department as of December 31, 2003, has never been updated. It is now totally disconnected from contemporary demographic and territorial realities. Thus, a department like Hérault, which had less than a million inhabitants in 2000 and more than 1.23 million in 2023, continues to receive an allocation calculated on data dating back two decades. For years, representatives of the fire brigade have constantly warned about the profound difficulties of the French model of civil security. However, the results of the “Beauvau civil security” work, known since September 2025, are still awaited; the bill initially announced for the beginning of 2026 has been postponed several times. Breaking up measures into several texts is not the solution: the SDIS need legible, coherent and ambitious national management. He therefore asks him if he finally intends to structurally strengthen the financing of the SDIS, in particular by revising the distribution key and revaluing the TSCA fraction. He asks him what other measures he intends to put in place to respond to the crisis faced by the SDIS.

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