Brian O'Shea

So essentially traps for the likes of rats and mice, etc.

And when I kind of looked around, I kind of started to search the area.

And I kind of seen there was like...

They're like blue sticks that look like rat poison in different places in the playground.

So there was some kind of remnants of it in the sand table.

There was some on the ground.

There was some over in the sand pit where the kids would play.

So I immediately took the kids out and I kind of explained to the other people in the playground what it was.

Now, there was nothing on the boxes themselves to kind of indicate that these were being used as rodent boxes or being used to trap rodents.

So I went home and I got some gloves and a bag and kind of removed as much as I could find and then tried to reach out to the management company who there was no way of getting in contact with them.

Subsequently reached out to Kildare County Council and they took note of it and said they'd send someone out.

They returned this morning to find it nearly exactly as it was yesterday with still remnants of what I believe to be the bait or the poison in the sandpit etc.

And yet nobody taking responsibility or accountability to remove that.

I think later in today, they have since removed the boxes, but no explanation from the management company as to how these came to be in the development or why they're not labelled or who was responsible for placing them there.

Well, this is the other issue, Ciarán.

There's been no communication with the residents on any potential issue of rodents winning.

It's never been brought up as an issue.

If that is the case, why weren't the boxes labelled so that people could... Because what subsequently transpired when I began to speak to other residents is those boxes were there since Thursday and kids were stacking them like toys.

They thought they were toy blocks.

There was a child who actually had the bait in their hands and was using it as molla, trying to bend and flex it, because they didn't know what it was.