A Ballymun woman is afraid to enter her own kitchen because of a mice and rat infestation in her apartment. In spite of multiple visits from HSE pest control, she says the problem hasn’t gone away.
Maria, who spoke on RTE’s Liveline today, no longer cooks at home and only uses paper plates when ordering a takeaway. She said the pests are behind her kitchen presses and they’ve been there for about a year.
“They’re definitely in my walls as well,” she told Joe Duffy on RTE’s Liveline. “I can hear them.”
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Maria insists she has proof of both rats and mice living in her apartment and is highly critical of the HSE pest control service, who told her that the problem is just mice and that the case will soon be closed.
“They come out, they put their poison down, but they’re closing the case on Wednesday,” she said. “They’re insisting it’s mice.”
Maria shared grisly photos and video footage with Liveline, which she had trouble describing on air because they were so disgusting.
“I think it was three weeks ago, pest control had been out, we had caught a couple of rats two days before but… because we didn’t check on them in two or three days, they had literally disintegrated,” she told the radio host.
On one occasion, according to Maria, a pest control worker ignored the remains of dead rats, told her everything was fine and then left after three minutes.
“The pest control man was there, literally, I’d say about three minutes,” she said. “That night, there were three and a half dead rats. There were maggots and all there.”
Maria criticised the agency’s lack of communication among people working at the pest control service.
“I don’t understand how there is so much lack of communication between agencies,” she said.
“I don’t know what the problem is with the communication… why all the photographs that I’ve sent in are not getting linked in with one person to another person.”
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