I strongly believe that all this development land were about to nationalize around every village, town and city, should be be turned into allotments and given to the people of Ireland to produce top quality organic food. There are so many benefits

1) Cut down on all the imported, over priced, poor quality, moldy muck thats flogged in most supermarkets

2) Obvious health benefits of fresh food produced locally without the use of pesticides etc. Not to mention the benefits of getting adults and kids outside into the fresh air and away from mind numbing TV and computer games, alcohol,drugs, boredom etc.

3) The community spirit endeared by people working together and sharing in the bounty and pleasures of nature.

4) Make a huge differenece to peoples carbon footprint in terms of foodmiles saved and the non-use of mass produced fossil fuel based
artificial fertilizers

5)Tourism spin-off from the beatification of our town-country edge, purchase of surplus product by visitors and a real as opposed to phoney manifestation of our clean, green unspoilt image

6) Big savings on peoples food bills in these recessionary times


7) Obvious benefits to the wider environment and wildlife etc.


These are just a few of the benefits I've thought of at short notice!


PS - I strongly believe Tom Parlons(ex-IFA and now CIF muppet) farm should be the first to be nationlized for reasons that should be obvious to everyone