Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That gives it much more clout than if it was the councillor saying it. That is the other thing, this meanwhile use of handing out a derelict piece of land to local community gardens is great for three, four or five years, until the landowner then says that they want to develop it now or the local authority says that it now has a need for the land to go back into housing. Suddenly, one has ended up in this situation where one has to evict the community gardeners from a site they have put loads of work into for four or five years.