Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
It was interesting when Ms Foreman talked about her own situation. She said there was already a waiting list for it and that if that had happened, her group would have been locked out of that space. It would not, therefore, have had the same ownership of that space. An idea or solution Ms Foreman suggested, for example, a standardised waiting list or some sort of waiting list, could in some ways limit the local ownership if it is an area-wide waiting list.
We need to be careful about interfering too much, although that is not to say we should not support it.
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