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Plumbing problems remark slammed during debate on period poverty ‘scandal’
A comment about “calling out plumbers” during a council debate on period poverty has been slammed by a public representative who asked for free sanitary products to be made available in council facilities.
Monday, 15th March 2021, 5:16 pm
Ballymena Alliance Councillor Patricia O’Lynn angrily dismissed a remark at a special meeting of the council on Friday by Ulster Unionist Councillor Keith Turner who said that provision of sanitary products in council buildings was about “logistics”.
Cllr Turner was commenting on a motion proposed by Cllr O’Lynn for the local authority to provide free sanitary products in its sports grounds, public buildings and council facilities, starting with each of Mid and East Antrim’s town halls.