370. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage is he aware that the coastal city of Malaga, Spain, EU member state, population 569,005 in 2016, which has a surveyed population of 3,200 gulls, that is, a ratio of one gull to 177 people, provides a service to its residents as part of an "Environmental Health Service" (details supplied) via a phone-based app or a free phone service to have gull nests and eggs or injured gulls removed in order to protect its citizens from aggressive attack and or injury by gulls, and will he compare that basic public health and safety service in another EU member state, under the same legislation as applies in Ireland, to the complete lack of a response to urban gulls issues here in Ireland, for example, in Balbriggan, population 23,000 people, gull population 3,000 per NPWS's survey 2021, or a ratio of one gull to eight people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33669/23]

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370. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage is he aware that the coastal city of Malaga, Spain, EU member state, population 569,005 in 2016, which has a surveyed population of 3,200 gulls, that is, a ratio of one gull to 177 people, provides a service to its residents as part of an "Environmental Health Service" (details supplied) via a phone-based app or a free phone service to have gull nests and eggs or injured gulls removed in order to protect its citizens from aggressive attack and or injury by gulls, and will he compare that basic public health and safety service in another EU member state, under the same legislation as applies in Ireland, to the complete lack of a response to urban gulls issues here in Ireland, for example, in Balbriggan, population 23,000 people, gull population 3,000 per NPWS's survey 2021, or a ratio of one gull to eight people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33669/23]

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