The northeast inner city has changed massively over the past ten years, according to local community worker Gillian Collins.
A youth worker for 27 years, Ms Collins said the North East Inner City Initiative (NEIC) has had a huge impact on the area since its inception ten years ago.
"There's been massive changes … changes for the good but there's still a lot that can be achieved," said Ms Collins.
The NEIC taskforce was set up in response to the series of gang-related murders, many in broad daylight, after the Regency Hotel shooting.
Its aim was to make the area a safer place and oversee its long-term social and economic regeneration.
The Mulvey Report, entitled 'Creating a Brighter Future' was published in February 2017 with recommendations on how to rejuvenate the northeast inner city and tackle crime in an area that was "run-down" and "neglected".
Four key areas were identified: crime and drugs, maximising education and training opportunities, integrating social supports and improving the physical landscape.
In the effort to tackle crime the number of garda assigned to the area has more than doubled with the assignment of an additional two sergeants and eight gardaí along with the reopening of Fitzgibbon Street Garda Station.
Despite regular patrols in the area drug dealing is still prevalent on the streets.
Ms Collins believes while there has been an increase in the number of gardaí there has also been an increase in crime leading her to believe "there will never be enough gardaí in the north inner city".
23-year-old Zachariah Caffrey, who lives on Seán McDermott Street, says drugs are a major issue with "young children on drugs, selling drugs as well, it has become a burden on the area".
Mr Caffrey said youth projects help: "They got me off the streets. I never did anything, I was a quiet person, but they do [help] and there's a lot of help there but it's not enough."
A pilot scheme is currently in place in ten local primary schools and five post primary schools, offering opportunities to children to encourage them to remain in the educational system.
Amongst the collaborators in the NEIC funded programme are the Department of Education, Tusla, Boston College and Mary Immaculate College.
Programme manager for City Connects Mickey McHugh said an individualised plan is tailored for each student based around their strengths and their needs and interests.
"In the schools we have seen higher attendance levels because they want to be in school to do the activities, they have expressed interest in," Mr McHugh said.
National Lead for the project Gerry Cullen said: "We're also trying to address the out of school factors, because in the area of academics, about two thirds of the disparity in achievement can be accounted for by these out of school factors".
He said these include housing instability, food insecurity, difficult family situations.
Mr Cullen said some of these families are involved in crime or there could be domestic violence.
The Mulvey report also recommended the transformation of the area into an attractive environment that the community is proud to own.
Significant work has been achieved under the Greening Strategy including upgrading works at Liberty Park and Diamond Park.
However, Aldborough House, one of Dublin’s most significant Georgian mansions, remains derelict almost a decade after the Mulvey report said it was "imperative that this "eye sore" was restored.
The taskforce, which meets monthly, is now being chaired on an interim basis by Liz Canavan, assistant secretary general at the Department of the Taoiseach, after former presidential candidate Jim Gavin stepped down last month.
Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam is calling for a permanent chair to appointed .
