In my area of Newcastle West – I am sure the same is true of Tullamore and other areas – when an estate is built there are social problems because of the density. There is a task force in a housing estate in Newcastle West involving the Garda, the health authority and the council in order to try to get things right. We then decide to build 50 houses and next door neighbours can simply stretch out to shake hands. There are no walls or divisions. However is it fair to design houses like this and push people into a small area? In our case, we then turn to the VEC to co-operate in providing a green area for children to play. We seem to adopt different criteria when private developers are building estates, but for local authority housing we try to compress them into as small an area as possible which is wrong.