Why has some of the greenery in city planters been left to wither?
The council hasn’t been able to find a contractor willing to take on the job of looking after these plants, a council official says.
A council spokesperson said the council will monitor the use of the toilets, and base future decisions on the information they collect.
“This isn’t just about homelessness,” says Alice Leahy. “This is much broader than that. It is as if we have become so informed that we are forgetting about the basics.”
Six of the city’s 21 libraries don’t have toilets for the public. “I just think it’s mental,” says one library-goer.
There’s already a code that recognises that women take longer to use the loo, and calls for women to get more facilities than men to compensate. And yet the queues persist.
Labour Councillor Mary Freehill wants to try a pilot in the south-east of the city.
There’s at least one constituency that is served well by the city’s amenities …
That grey concrete mass at the southern end of the square is more than just a grey concrete mass.
Dublin City Council is considering a plan that would provide for public toilets. But is there a reason we got rid of them all in the first place? And would we even use them?