The Dublin City Taskforce should really be renamed the "north inner city Dublin task force" because it will not actually impact the south inner city. For instance, Pearse Street and Kevin Street are very important parts of the city and the task force will have no impact there. Dublin City Council has been appointed to head up this new task force and to regenerate the inner city. It is supposed to be doing that anyway. The reason Dublin City Council is not doing it is because it is not getting the funding. This task force says it will get Dublin City Council to fast track and work on the regeneration of the flats in the inner city. Dublin City Council is already supposed to be doing that and working on improving the lives of people living in the inner city. The difficulty is that the funding for the local authorities is not there. It is already Dublin City Council's job to refurbish and regenerate flat complexes right across the city but it will not be doing that because it does not have the funding. The council has already pulled the plug on the redevelopment and regeneration of Pearse House. The conditions in which people are living in the inner city, such as in Leo Fitzgerald House, are absolutely shocking, not just on the northside but on the southside as well. The task force will not actually affect the lives of residents.

Look at Trinity College, which has turned its back on the local community in Pearse Street. If you walk from Trinity College down to Westland Row all of one side of the street is effectively sterile because Trinity College and planning has meant there is no life on that street. Very often there are tents lying open and homeless people on the other side of the street. Senator McCarthy will know well that Pearse Street is lively and active but on the Trinity College side there is that systemic neglect. The Dublin City Taskforce will not address the systemic neglect of the inner city. Dublin City Council has that remit. The local councillors do not and have not had any engagement in relation to this. Looking at the conditions people are expected to live in, the public realm and the lack of employment and educational opportunities for people living in the inner city, they are completely unacceptable and the task force will not solve this. All the task force will do is allow Government Senators and TDs to stand up and say they will do things differently now, even though they have overseen the demise of the inner city for decades.

Before I call the next speaker I welcome the delegation from Kerry who are up here on a scouting mission in advance of the all-Ireland football final.

They must not be planning on travelling in the coming days.

They are guests of the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae. They are most welcome and please God we will all bring home Sam Maguire the weekend after next. I thank them for coming in. Senator Joe O'Reilly is next, who does a great version of The Gallant John Joe about Cavan and how they won the all-Ireland final.

Unfortunately, we are still dining out on 1947.

Think of all the money you are saving on hotels in Dublin.

Cavan will be back shortly. We nearly did it this year. I wish all colleagues in the House a wonderful summer and great recess after a year of multiple elections and frenetic levels of activity. I wish our wonderful staff of the House a great summer also. Our ushers and all of the staff of Leinster House do a great job and provide such wonderful support. One cannot help but remember with fondness today the great Martin Groves who has now been very brilliantly replaced by Bridget, but we do miss Martin. He was a great man and we hope he continues to enjoy a good retirement.

Those of us of a certain vintage remember many great social revolutions, changes and advances over the years. Among the many I have seen and that were great was the introduction of carers to the homes of older people and people who are sick. This generation now take that for granted and assume it was always that way. It was not always so. Like everything else it is not flawless but a great initiative recently was raising the income limit by €200 whereby people can have carers. That is a huge reform and we have to move to a situation where carers are provided irrespective of income. My understanding is that it is contained in our programme for Government and we should work towards that.

The second thing we must look at is the provision of an adequate panel of carers in each county. When the hours are allocated throughout the country there is a shortage of actual personnel to do them and that means some reforms of the salary, contracts and basis on which carers work. That will need to be radically looked at. I ask the Leader to bring this to the Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, to see if we could have some debate or discussion on this in the autumn to examine whether the panel can be developed. We need to improve income for carers and also further improve income limits. We need to improve the supply of carers. We also should put home care on a statutory footing, like the fair deal scheme, so people are assured under the law they can get home care and have the option to be cared for at home. With the demographic structure of our country now, this whole debate and area is all the more pertinent now. If you take humanity, well-being and wellness out of it, from a purely cold economic perspective, in terms of money, it is the logical thing to do.

It is the cheapest option, if also the preferred option. I thank the Cathaoirleach.

I apologise for any confusion earlier. Before we finish for the summer, I thank the Cathaoirleach, all of the team and the Leader for his welcome, help and support to the new Senators. I thank Martin Groves for his professionalism and diligence in the short term I worked with him in the Oireachtas. Indeed, I also thank Bridget Doody, Clerk Assistant of the Seanad.

I also support the words of support by Senators Cummins and Ní Chuilinn on the Oireachtas broadcast staff who will be, essentially, on the dole from next week. I lend my voice of support to them.

Senator P.J. Murphy, my colleague in County Galway, raised the upcoming proposals and changes to veterinary prescriptions for farming. From discussions I have had with the farming community in County Mayo, there are serious concerns about how they threaten to monopolise the market. We need to have a discussion before these changes are brought into effect because it could have serious ramifications and increases in cost for farmers. I support Senator Murphy on it. I would welcome a discussion before any changes are made.