ONE OF the country's leading motor-home organisations has urged county and town councils to provide parking spaces in their public car parks for daytime visits.
Councillors and officials in Kerry last week claimed there was a growing problem with campers parking where they liked and in some cases, leaving waste behind.
There has been a strong reaction to the claims from camper- van or motor-home users, who say their vehicles are fully fitted with toilet facilities.
In a statement, the Munster Motor-home Club said while its members had all toilet facilities on board, not all public beaches in Kerry had toilet facilities.
The council's environmental awareness officer Micheál Ó Coileáin has hit out at "the notion that you can come with a camper-van to Kerry and park up wherever you like". He said this was no longer acceptable.
He said local communities were lobbying the council to tackle the problem of camper-vans parking in car parks.