DAIL FULL OF RATS, SLUGS AND FLIES..

Pest control issues may cause disease risk at power base

- DARRAGH MCDONAGH

MICE in a medical room, rats in a toilet, slugs in a basement, and fouling "next to the minister's entrance" were some of the pest issues recorded at Leinster House in the past six months.

Exterminators also warned that someone in the nearby Office of the Attorney General was defying instructions not to feed pigeons.

Experts said droppings on the Dublin building's doorsteps would “most likely cause an accident”.

An infestation of flies was reported in the ushers' hut at the Merrion Street entrance site last November, while rats were spotted burrowing out of a drain in a car park in January.