Ms Maeve Foreman:

I can give a couple of examples that I think are good models. As it is a first for Dublin, people might be aware of the Bridgefoot Street park. Eventually, because of local campaigns, it was decided to make it into a park because that area of Dublin was really low on green spaces. An element of the park is to have a community garden. That will be a permanent community garden. Likewise, moving Muck and Magic community garden over to Poppintree to be part of the city farm is giving that garden an element of permanency. In both cases, strong local groups were involved in the running of it. Farmers Hill community garden in my area of the north-east inner city is another example. That was a garden on a temporary space, which the council took back. There is development going on and it is giving half of the space back to Farmers Hill as a permanent garden.