Senator Ryan referred to housing. An increasing number of people are finding it impossible to provide housing for themselves without assistance. I urge the Minister to contact the Minister for the Environment and Local Government immediately in relation to the housing strategies which had been put in place by local authorities, acting on the advice of the previous Minister in that Department. Clearly, those strategies are not working. Fewer houses are being built, not alone in the local authority sector but also in the private sector. Coming in the immediate aftermath of an economic boom, that is disastrous. Builders and developers have no hesitation in attributing blame to the strategies which local authorities have implemented on the advice of the then Minister for the Environment and Local Government. I again ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to contact the present Minister for the Environment and Local Government with a view to having this issue addressed. If that is not done, the situation will escalate and the Minister will be inundated with requests in relation to housing problems.