Maeve Higgins: Ending period poverty will help so many people

Period poverty means not being able to afford period products like pads and tampons or lacking hygiene facilities like bins and sinks

A supporter of the Period Products bill at a rally outside Parliament in Edinburgh two years ago. This week, Scotland became the first country in the world to make period products free for all. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA 

"You would never go into a public toilet and expect there to be no toilet paper or to have to carry your own toilet paper in your pocket," Lisa Moran, an administrator at Munster Technological University, told RTÉ news last year. 

She was interviewed when the college made period products free and available to all, encouraging other institutions and public places to do the same.