Council pays €2,500 to keep toilets open amid shortfall

A West Waterford town council has provided funds from its own reserves to counteract a shortfall in local government funding that threatens to close its public toilets.

Lismore Town Council has given Waterford County Council a cheque for €2,500 to pay caretaker costs to defer closure of the town’s toilets until Dec 31.

The county council plans to close all public toilets in Co Waterford after the Department of the Environment left it €2m short in local authority funding.