Last week I read in a Dublin newspaper an appeal by the Eastern Regional Health Authority for more foster care parents. It is a disgrace and a scandal in 2003 that, in the most built-up and populated part of this country, we do not have sufficient people to look after vulnerable children who need to be looked after and that would-be parents looking to adopt must go to eastern Europe to do so. In our community we have thousands of children who need to be fostered. No one will foster them, yet when it comes to adoption it is virtually impossible to adopt a child in this country because of the demand. We have young Traveller children on the streets. It is another form of abuse, which is accepted today in our society, that people under the age of 18 live in appalling conditions on roads throughout the country.