A motion calling on Cork County Council to recognise period poverty as a real issue for women and to provide free sanitary products in public toilets was passed unanimously at Monday s online meeting of the local authority.
Despite that the motion proposed by Cllr Gobnait Moynihan was passed 26-0, with just one absentention on International Women s Day, there doesn t seem to be any likelihood of early movement from the council to implement the terms of the motion.
In a response from the Council s Director of Services Niall Healy, it was suggested that a decision from a Government committee considering the issue be awaited.