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
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
Let us tease that out. The council tells people that they can do it if they find a suitable bit of land. That is exactly what I have heard before. People go searching but they cannot find any, or if they return with three or four options, they are told that those lands have been earmarked for something else or the council is not quite sure what it is doing with that road over the next 20 years, for example, so it cannot do anything there. Is Ms Foreman saying that we should put the onus on the local authority to say where the land is? It would be plan led rather than community garden developer led.
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