Dublin City to remove it's only Public Toilets

There's no security minding any statue.

You fell for the story.

How do you know what they are making?

the pissing police?

Ridiculous, but expected as DCC and central government both hate Dublin. You only need to look at the maintenance situation. James Joyce bridge hasn't been cleaned or maintained since it opened in 2003. It's completely covered in rubbish, trees growing out of the drains and most of lights and class are broken, have a look at the new paving on Liffey street, FILTHY. So a public toilet stands no chance, that required continuous maintenance, simply not in DCC's vocabulary.

Two years ago the council sought expressions of interest for the provision of permanent toilets in the city centre. It has since been in discussions with two providers, the report states.

“One of the service providers who specialise in automated units strongly advised against placing an unmanned/automated public toilet unit in the city centre, due to the significant risk associated with antisocial activity.”

One thing I've noticed on the continent is good quality "manned" facilities which charge a euro or so, for usage. I presume the charge pays for the person on site, and ongoing maintenance.

Central Dublin was always a bit grotty. I was there recently and it has gotten much much worse.

I would like to see the numbers on what it costs to run the 2 public toilets. I bet it probably pales in comparison to what sort of money is spent on other things.

Do they have public toilets in other busy places in Ireland? Galway? Killarney? Or is just Dublin without them?

I think they are completely understaffed is the thing. I'm currently in Spain and I'm sure you've all seen it, every morning teams of fellas are out spraying and cleaning. We probably need 50 times our current staff to get to that level in Spain. But that would never get the funding.

Running the public toilets cost a fiver per-person. That's f*ck all in the grand scheme of things for an important service.

What has probably happened is they projected a million people will use the toilets, so it will make 5 million, but only 20,000 people have used it, so it's believed to be loss making.

The reality is, the public toilets in most other cities don't make a profit. In fact the nominal fee you pay doesn't cover the upkeep of the toilets/pay for the attendant, but it helps it.

Two toilets would be a token gesture. Won't make a significant difference to the levels of public urination and defecation.

Because they're attended, which I assume is the biggest cost involved in providing them, which is all DCC seem to care about.

Women exist too though.