354. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with regard to the national warnings to the general public posted on his Department/NPWS’s website concerning the current, persistent avian flu outbreak (details supplied) and specifically with regard to the published warnings about risks from faecal waste from wild birds, his attention has been drawn to the best practice advice for the proper methods of cleaning high-amenity locations/sites contaminated with faecal waste from wild birds for example screening off of affected areas, chemical treatment and use of full respiratory equipment by staff and workers, and for example that power washers should not be used as they cause wide dispersal of contaminated micro-droplets than can be inhaled/ingested by workers and passers-by; and if he will consider that such best practice advice for cleaning contaminated locations/sites should be well publicised, especially to ensure that schools, hospitals, supermarkets, restaurants and so on where high density colonies of seagulls are known to breed in the period March to September each year and deposit large amounts of faeces and detritus, should be properly advised as to how to clean and indeed how not to clean such locations. [51770/22]

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354. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with regard to the national warnings to the general public posted on his Department/NPWS’s website concerning the current, persistent avian flu outbreak (details supplied) and specifically with regard to the published warnings about risks from faecal waste from wild birds, his attention has been drawn to the best practice advice for the proper methods of cleaning high-amenity locations/sites contaminated with faecal waste from wild birds for example screening off of affected areas, chemical treatment and use of full respiratory equipment by staff and workers, and for example that power washers should not be used as they cause wide dispersal of contaminated micro-droplets than can be inhaled/ingested by workers and passers-by; and if he will consider that such best practice advice for cleaning contaminated locations/sites should be well publicised, especially to ensure that schools, hospitals, supermarkets, restaurants and so on where high density colonies of seagulls are known to breed in the period March to September each year and deposit large amounts of faeces and detritus, should be properly advised as to how to clean and indeed how not to clean such locations. [51770/22]

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