There have been further calls on Galway City Council to address issues arising from the scattering of porridge oats on the city’s streets.<\/p>\n
The foodstuff is being scattered in various areas and is attracting large numbers of pigeons and seagulls.<\/p>\n
It has been the subject of ongoing discussion at meetings of the local authority, with councillors citing concerns about slip hazards, vermin and impacts on urban wildlife as a result of the practice.<\/p>\n
At this afternoon’s monthly meeting, Fine Gael councillor Shane Forde said city centre-based GPs were “at their wits’ end” given the number of patients presenting for treatment after slipping on the oats.<\/p>\n
He said one woman had broken a hip as a result, and that the issue was of particular concern for older people.<\/p>\n
Cllr Forde said efforts to deal with the problem were not proactive enough and that the council needed to treat it as a public health emergency.<\/p>\n
Councillors approved a motion in September 2024 calling for the distribution of porridge oats to be tackled urgently.<\/p>\n
However, the issue has persisted since then, with officials committing to liaise with the HSE and “relevant authorities” in an effort to address the matter.<\/p>\n
Cllr Forde was told there was no further update on the issue in response to his queries this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been further calls on Galway City Council to address issues arising from the scattering of porridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-489388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}