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

Mr. D?nal McCormack:

I believe they are. Our survey, which was carried out in 2021, was indicative, but we can apply its findings to allotments and community gardens. They could be removed for other purposes, given there is no defined right in any legislation for local communities to be given a community growing space in the first instance. By all means, given very few are defined as permanent, they could be removed.