Every housing estate, local authority owned or otherwise, in urban areas had a vibrant, hard working voluntary sector which helped communities by taking underage football, helping pensioners and so on. These committees and voluntary groups existed before the boom and were an asset to the country. However, as a result of the boom we have problems with our voluntary sector because during the previous Government's term in office jobs were given to the paid sector – to youth workers and co-ordinators of community development projects. These were great jobs, some of them worth €40,000 or €50,000 a year but the paid workers went into the communities and the voluntary sector began to fall apart. Volunteers questioned why they should work for nothing when others were being paid. No thinking went into the sustainability of voluntary communities in urban estates. When cutbacks begin, the first people to lose their jobs will be the paid workers in these estates so we will have not only lost the voluntary sector but the paid sector too. This is due to the lack of foresight in relation to sustainability.