asked the Minister for Agriculture whether, in view of the inadequacy of the amount of land available to the Dublin Corporation and associations operating in Dublin to meet the demand of unemployed persons for plots, and especially having regard to the enforced abandonment of the proposed allotment of portion of the Phoenix Park, and in order to help to maintain supplies essential to the life of the community, he, in virtue of the powers conferred on him by the Emergency Powers Act, 1939, and the Emergency Powers Order, 1939 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1939, No. 224), will arrange some scheme for the free grant of implements, seeds, manures, etc., to all persons who are prepared to grow vegetables in their own gardens and who cannot afford to buy those requisites.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Assistance of Garden-Owners.
The question of providing additional land in or adjacent to the City of Dublin for a proposed extension of the allotments scheme is receiving attention. Grants under the Acquisition of Land (Allotments) (Amendment) Act, 1934, are restricted to recoupment to a local authority or an approved association of the cost of providing, for unemployed persons, seeds, manures, spraying materials and the use of implements for the cultivation of allotments let to them by the local authority or approved association. Grants to provide seeds and allotment requisites in any other circumstances cannot be made.