Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 May 2022

Committee on Public Petitions

Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion

Mr. James Walsh:

Only in public spaces. The law says a pesticide does not differentiate between an amateur pesticide or a professional pesticide. In most cases I mean the professional pesticides, the same as used by the council, but which people can easily buy in a hardware shop. They are using it all over the place. In the village I lived in previously, you could not go anywhere that was not sprayed. It was everywhere. It was in the playground, in the GAA pitch, on all the roads coming in, on all the streets, including the main streets and outside the chipper, the nursing home and the hospitals. It was just everywhere.

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