Cork advocate for the elderly Paddy O\u2019Brien has called for petrol pump attendants to be employed by petrol stations again, saying older people find it difficult to do the task themselves.<\/p>\n
Speaking to The Echo, Mr O\u2019Brien said staff members who worked outside the petrol station and would put the petrol or diesel into the car for customers used to be a common sight.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s been years since I\u2019ve seen one in Cork city. Removing the petrol cover from the car can be very difficult for older people who might be frail,\u201d said Mr O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n
He said that in the absence of a dedicated staff member, some people are having to ask other people to do it for them.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cPeople will say that they just ask a man who drives into the petrol station, and that can be a huge embarrassment,\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
he said.<\/p>\n
Mr O\u2019Brien said elderly people can often struggle to lift the bonnet of their car if an oil change is needed.<\/p>\n
He said that things like this can really limit older people\u2019s freedom, and that he is aware of older people in Cork who avoid using their cars because they consider going to get fuel an ordeal.<\/p>\n
Mr O\u2019Brien said this can prohibit them from going to the shops, to appointments or to social events, and keep them at home instead.<\/p>\n
He suggested, in light of prices at petrol stations continuing to increase, there should be sufficient revenue available to hire one or two attendants to assist those who need assistance, and encouraged Cork politicians to take up the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t understand why I have never heard this issue raised before,\u201d said Mr O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork advocate for the elderly Paddy O\u2019Brien has called for petrol pump attendants to be employed by petrol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[781,79,18,5321,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-17147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-elderly","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}