I was listening to the news on the wireless this evening, on 2RN (or, as they call it nowadays, Radio Athlone). Just after 6.00pm the presenter said:
Following a leak in the German parliament, the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan ….
I know things are bad, but are there now no loos in Dáil Éireann, so that the minister has to travel to Berlin for a pee?
Irish waterways history 
In America we’re refurbrishing the outhouse. An austerity measure to discourage congressional time spent reading the funnies.