Ms Carol Coad:

Yes. The Great Sugar Loaf is a real family place to go. It is quite dramatic. An eight-year-old child can get up it in half an hour and really feel like they have climbed a big mountain. An eight-year-old child often needs a loo. If someone parks in the carpark and looks in the ditch, it is full of toilet paper. It is horrible. We have that problem replicated across so many sites in Wicklow caused by the levels of visitors and the lack of toilets. We found a unit that Wexford County Council had installed on Cahore beach. For all intents and purposes it is a really fancy portaloo. It looks absolutely gorgeous. Depending on how busy the area is, it gets emptied possibly twice a year or four times a year. Coillte trialled them at a couple of its sites. We knew the unit. We knew it worked. We asked LEADER for the money to pilot them in three locations. I put them in locations where the county council already had a portaloo contract so we had a maintenance schedule in place and it was not going to take any extra financial commitment to get them serviced. They are in and have been open for around five weeks. Their success is very much dependent on the kind of people that use the area. We have one in a family recreation area in Roundwood where there is an automatic gate locked in the evening. That helps against the antisocial behaviour issue. That is, to my great surprise, spotlessly clean every day of the week. We have a really good guy from the local authority who replaces the toilet paper twice a week and makes sure there is hand sanitizer in it. They are fully self-contained. They do not need running water and they do not need power. They are a dry unit.