126. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Youth in the context of the protection of schoolchildren, all school staff, teachers, support staff and caretakers, and their health and safety, if he is aware of serious harms being caused (and escalating) for several years now by high density, breeding gull colonies in many schools around the country; if she has noted the recent very stark warnings in respect of Avian Flu (in which gulls are heavily implicated) issued by the Department of Health, the Health Surveillance Protection Centre, the Health and Safety Executive, the Department of Agriculture, and indeed by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage/National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) which urge that the public avoid contact with seabirds and their faecal waste; and if she is aware, can she inform the Deputy as to what advices, instructions and resource provisions have been or will be issued by her Department to all schools impacted by the urban gull issue and the warnings issued by the above mention State bodies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40106/25]

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126. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Youth in the context of the protection of schoolchildren, all school staff, teachers, support staff and caretakers, and their health and safety, if he is aware of serious harms being caused (and escalating) for several years now by high density, breeding gull colonies in many schools around the country; if she has noted the recent very stark warnings in respect of Avian Flu (in which gulls are heavily implicated) issued by the Department of Health, the Health Surveillance Protection Centre, the Health and Safety Executive, the Department of Agriculture, and indeed by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage/National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) which urge that the public avoid contact with seabirds and their faecal waste; and if she is aware, can she inform the Deputy as to what advices, instructions and resource provisions have been or will be issued by her Department to all schools impacted by the urban gull issue and the warnings issued by the above mention State bodies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40106/25]

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