Dublin City to remove it's only Public Toilets

It's an essential service.

It's the duty of DCC to provide it.

Start from there and just get on with it, no more excuses.

Until the govt can confirm that the extra money raised would stay in Dublin and not divert to other counties that cant pay for themselves, I can understand why the council doesnt increase the rates.

Although the rates are going to go up in the near future.

But looking at the bigger picture

• Healthcare below the level of a rich country
• Police and army under resourced
• Shortage of schools
• Crying out for a new prison
• And so much more...

Not the trade mark of a rich country in my book

Fair point but I ask why so?

To suggest an answer to my own question: Mabye because we are not rich and cannot afford them? Rich countries don't cut back on essential spending on health, education, infrastructure, security, fuure proofing etc.

Add public toilets to this too. It should not even be a question of to do or not to do. They are essential in any city that values it's reputation and status.

Ah here, the headlines above do not describe the situation on the ground nationwide. Shortage of beds and school places is very real.

Nobody agrees the expense on the new hospital is justified, good value or any other metric. They should have ditched the architectural merit for utility value, and built a standard cubic type structure that could still house and deliver world class medical care, and in a much more timely fashion. The hospital expense says a lot about why we are not rich ...

Those evening / night pop up toilets have been in Amsterdam, London, Copenhagen & Hamburg amongst many other cities for decades.

We certainly should have more public toilets, but DCC seems to be run on a very tight budget, given the wealth of the country and especially the city.

If the city council isn't getting the funding it needs, there is only so much it can do with those limited funds.

Streets need to cleaned more often, especially when we get long dry periods like we are seeing at the moment and it does not rain for literally weeks.

The pavements get caked in crap, as well as all the litter that builds up.

Give the council the money they need to jet wash streets daily, at least around the city centre.

Dublin residents pay more income tax and PRSI than the rest of the country put together.

The govt should reflect this contribution in its council funding.

Dublin is also the number 1 tourist destination in the country, in terms of visitor numbers; another reason it should be in pristine condition, permanently.

Noticed this before I went away. The new pavements built from fairview to town in Dublin are absolutely manky already, really disgusting. No one is cleaning them.

DCC can't manage it's remit at the moment and the population has exploded making everything worse. Needs better management and more funding.

Exactly. I do not understand how the council and local politicians arent brought to task on it.

All Dubliners are asking is that the govt spend the money we as Dubliners pay in tax on our own local Dublin services.

We need a Mayor will power to represent the people of Dublin.

I'm in Cork and I don't think there has been public toilets in the city for quite a while now. It's a joke really. Cork City Council seems to adopt the same approach as Dublin in ensuring anything they do is about how it makes money or covers it's cost. A public toilet should be a mandatory public service.

I'm 15 minutes from City Centre, and the local town down the road from me has a public toilet but Cork City doesn't. It's a joke.

There are public toilets in Cork, admittedly not enough of them. There's one in the Library building on Grand Parade (entrance is from the street not from inside the library). Also one in the English Market during opening hours. And one in Fitzgerald's Park, although that's not very convenient for the city centre.

All the Business rates collected go on City council staffs wages and pensions , there is no money left for toilets or anything else

Does that not say to you that they're broke?

Reading the article, it is very clear that everyone quoted & involved in the council is saying the budget is nowhere near what is needed.

Almost 70% of the budget is on housing alone.

2.8 billion for housing in Dublin City is a huge figure and does not leave much left for anything else, once salaries are paid.

Is Dublin city not a public toilet anyway?

I think thats the point DCC are trying to make, yep.