For months, the Government has watched Mount Street turn into a tented city. Fine Gael's neglect of the inner city continues. Many residents do not feel safe around Mount Street or, indeed, anywhere in the city. Small local businesses next to Mount Street are on the brink of closing down because of the shambles this Government has created. The people I represent are sick of this Government and of being treated so disgracefully and neglected. If this happened on the streets in Greystones or Ballsbridge, we would see decisive action but because it is the inner city, it is being ignored and neglected. Families are living in flats riddled with dampness and mould. The continued neglect of the inner city needs to stop. Everyone agrees that what is happening on Mount Street is shambolic. Talk is cheap. What will the Government actually do about it?

What Deputy Andrews will not do is slur my home town. We should not be divisive on these issues. There are real challenges regarding Mount Street; the Deputy is quite correct. There are real challenges concerning international protection, the International Protection Office being located in the vicinity of Mount Street. The Government is working around the clock to try to find alternative solutions, some of which-----

Baggot Street hospital is empty.

-----by the way, are in my constituency. Rather than seeking to divide the House or pit one community against the other------

Baggot Street hospital is empty.

-----it is the people of County Wicklow, as Deputy Whitmore and I know, who are now trying to assist in providing responses. This is about a whole-country response. I very much take the point about the need to continue to invest in the inner city. We will very shortly set up a Dublin city task force. I would welcome the Deputy's thoughts and input into that.