Mr. D?nal McCormack:

We identified a 65-year gap in terms of an official figure for Ireland for the number of allotments and community gardens. We feel this is way too long a timeframe. We need a type of community garden-community growing census. Again, it could be done every five or ten years at a local authority level such that local authorities will know how many community growing spaces are in their local area. It allows for trending and so on. We think it would be very beneficial.