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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 13, 2021

QUESTION NO.1

QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

To ask which public buildings provide free sanitary products as part of #CombatPeriodPoverty in conjunction with Homeless Period Ireland and to ask if there are plans to include all public community centres, leisure centres, libraries and any other public buildings under the remit of SDCC.

REPLY:

South Dublin County Council has provided free sanitary products in the public toilets in County Hall, Tallaght and Civic Centre, Clondalkin since March 2019 as part of the Combat Period Poverty initiative. This is a campaign that works to support girls and women who require sanitary products but are unable to afford them, and to date has been provided in Homeless Outreach Centres, Direct Provision Centres and Women’s Refuges.

The campaign continues in SDCC, and will extend to other buildings under the remit of the Council, such as Community Centres in 2022.