 Thank you, Greg. Good morning. The Foreign Affairs Minister has told the Dahl the proposal by the British government to introduce an electronic travel authorization system could have serious consequences for Donnie Gull. The issue was raised in the Dahl last night by three Donnie Gull opposition TDs who highlighted their belief that this would compromise the cross-border freedom of movement, which is enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement. Concern was also expressed. This could lead to the reintroduction of border checks. Minister Simon Coveney told them a House of Lords amendment which would have exempted the border from the scheme was rejected, but it may come before the Commons again and he said the government would be pushing to ensure it's accepted this time. The introduction of the proposed ETA scheme for cross-border journeys could cause considerable disruption to the daily lives and livelihoods of many people. It's clear that border counties such as Donnie Gull would be particularly affected. Most journeys to and from Donnie Gull naturally cross the border. Since this proposal emerged, the government have been engaged with the British government at both official and political level to express our serious concern with regard to the proposed ETA scheme. There is time to try and change this and I can assure you we will be very active in our attempts to do that. And you can see that full discussion on our website highlandradio.com. Ukraine's military says Russian pledges to scale back operations in two key cities are an attempt to mislead. The Kremlin is withdrawing forces from the outskirts of Kiev, but Western officials believe they're being redeployed elsewhere. Russia's announcement came following peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has welcomed progress, but says Russia still can't be trusted. We can call the signals we hear from the negotiating platform positive. But these signals do not drown out the blows of Russian shells. Of course, we see all the risks. Irish workers will be entitled to monetary sick pay for the first time under new laws. The cabinet has approved a bill which would give employees the right to take three sick days by the end of this year. That will rise to five next year, seven the following year, and 10 by 2026. They'll be paid at a rate of 70% of a worker's wage to a maximum of 110 euro a day. Thornishta and Enterprise Minister Liev Radker says the change is being made for a number of reasons. And Donegal County Council is being urged to complete work on a listed bridge in the Twin Towns. The bridge, which links Balabafe and Strunhaler, had deteriorated a number of years ago. And Donegal County Council carried out some repairs along with the TII on one side. When works in the area began on other projects, the bridge work was suspended to minimise disruption to the local community. But Councillor Patrick McGowan says it's now time to return and finish the job. There's some very unsightly calls, ESB, carrying ESB wires and lights and that actually, and one's actually coming out of the bridge itself, comes out of it, through the pipe at wall, and that has to be removed. So there's a lot of turn of phone with different agencies, but may understand that's been long started out. So it's time now that they actually go on and finish the job. Looking at the weather forecast, mist and fog clearing this morning, sherry rain spreading from the north with some much colder weather. Top temperatures today no higher than five to eight degrees Celsius with some rain and potentially wintry showers during the day. drier, brighter weather will follow in the late afternoon tonight. It'll be cold and frosty, mostly dry with minimum temperatures of minus three to zero degrees Celsius. Back with news in full at 10 o'clock. First all, from the HSE. Hello, a very good morning. Four minutes past nine this Wednesday the 30th of March. You're very welcome along to the program. I hope you are well and I hope you're with us now at least for the next three hours here on Highland radio. Coming up later on in the program, it's wellness Wednesday. We're going to be focusing on multi neuron disease, particularly, of course, for the week that's in it, as many of you out there prepare to engage in walks or climbs supporting Charlie Bird and his support of multi neuron disease charity and of course pieta as well. The weather for Saturday is looking okay is showery it seems showery and a bit chilly, but nothing that should put anyone off if you've got the right gear. There's that and so much more besides on the way, but let's start with a look at the newspapers this morning and we'll quick off with the Finn Valley voice. The census of this Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 will be a landmark census. The Republic of Ireland's population will pass the five million mark for the first time, according to United Nations forecasts. The current UN estimate is five million and 35,000 odd up from three million in 1973 and four million in 2004. The estimate indicates a 10% rise from the 2010 figure of 4.5 million. It remains to be seen if the Finn Valley, which is the focus of this paper, of course, will share in the general rise Donegal's population in the last census shrank by 1.2% more than the entire population of Kiligordon and Ruffo combined. We'll see if those shrinkages are reversed. The English Times has an interview with Paddy Diver today, describing him as straight talking 100% redress campaigner Paddy Diver says he is stepping back from the group because his good name is being dragged through the mud on social media and he cannot take it anymore. In an exclusive interview with the English Times, Ineshaun's redress Totem added he was both heartbroken and disgusted his involvement in the campaign had to end in this way. Two pages dedicated to that on the inside of that paper today. The Donegal posed the 2022 national census, which was delayed last year because of COVID-19's pandemic. Restrictions will confirm on Sunday next how much the Donegal population has increased over the past six years. So we're going to have to wait quite some time before we find out the details of it. It will also indicate how the multicultural dimension to our population is becoming more diverse and greater ever over this generation. Indeed, the population diversity has altered radically in just one generation, according to Kearlock of Donegal County Council, Councillor Jack Morrie. Speaking at the launch of the first ever strategy for black and minority ethnic inclusion for counter Donegal in recent days, he said the 2016 census indicated that 7.2% of the population of the county, or 11,477 people, were born outside the state. I would be amongst those though that being said. I'm sure many others as well. The Irish independent pension reform needed to pay for generation rent. The government has conceded that the new auto enrollment pension scheme is needed to help pay for rent for the increasing number of older people who will not own a home when they retire. This is a knock on effect, you know, in the here and now people can't get on the property ladder, people can't get their own property, people can't build a house on their own land, okay, and end up in the rental market, long-term rental market, and then as they reach retirement they don't have a home of their own. So you pay for the problems of today down the line, they don't go away. A confidential cabinet memo states the scheme will be particularly important as home ownership rates decline, an increasing number of older people will need sufficient income to meet rental costs during their retirement years, the memo states. It comes as social protection minister Heather Humphries outlined the details of the new auto enrollment pension scheme, which will see the government pay one euro for every three and employer or employee, sorry, saves for the retirement employers will be required to match employee contributions up to six percent of the salary below 80,000 euro. The rate of home ownership in Ireland has been steadily declining for decades with the most recent CSO figures showing it had fallen from a peak of 79.3 percent in 1991 to 68 percent in 2016, and we'll see of course from the next census where it goes from there, but that's a huge drop isn't it from 80 odd percent of home ownership down to 68 percent. Onto the Irish Times now and perhaps there is some light at the end of the tunnel on the horizon as it relates to the war in Ukraine. There does seem to be some progress in talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials. Now of course everyone's going to be skeptical, skeptical, because of course as the Russians built up their forces on the border with Ukraine they all the while denied they had any intention of a mass invasion, but that did of course come to pass and there is other history there, but be that as it may you know anything that seems to be progress I suppose has to be welcomed and it's interesting to note that if you listen to different politicians from within Ukraine and of course it's like every other country there's going to be differing opinions, but you know there's a difference of opinion as to what it would take to secure peace, whether or not the Nassk region and Crimea could be given up or at least a period of time 10, 15, 20 years to determine its future if that could be basis for peace, but others would say you know we can't give up one inch of territory because if we do well that just sends a message to Russia that if you invade eventually you get what you want. So even within Ukraine there's different views as to how these talks might progress, but in the first meeting with Russian officials in almost three weeks Ukrainian negotiators at talks in Istanbul flagged territorial concessions for the first time in what Russian officials described as meaningful negotiations Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin and Moscow said Moscow would create the necessary condition for future negotiations by reducing dramatically military activities in the direction of Kiev and Cheneyov 150 kilometers north of the capital, but of course then you have the White House saying that there has been some there has been some pullback but it could simply be the Russians you know repositioning. The Irish Daily Mail today, Central Bank warning on mortgages. Banks are being warned to act on nearly 40,000 customers who've mortgaged arrears unpaid for more than 90 days with property prices soaring close to Celtic Tiger levels. Banks have also been ordered by the Central Bank to be extra vigilant in dealing with new customers who begin to fall into arrears. Central Bank director Jerry Cross said the problem was also causing deep stress for homeowners struggling financially and needs resolution. It comes as the T-Shark and the Hill Martin said the rising cost of food and energy will continue right through to the end of the year and warned that the government cannot be bringing in separate measures every week. Well you know why don't you just bring in a raft of good measures one week and take the rest of the year off that would be one option as well rather than firefighting look at the situation and say what can we do now to mitigate as best we can what is going to happen no one's asking them to do it every week no to read the papers and say oh well let's clip 101% off that don't want to come up with a plan like you did with other issues I don't think that's an unreasonable request I just wonder what this means though for these 40,000 people obviously they're already under pressure but does this mean that the central bank their message to banks does this mean the banks are going to get tough with these people you know in terms of the we've all been there you know the letters and the threats and the warnings and you know the anxiety that causes. The Irish Daily Starterdale tells us today that detectives investigating the murder of Michaela McReevey from Tyrone of course in Mauritius have arrested a former security guard at the hotel where she was killed his lawyer has said. The lawyer for Dasan Narayan told reporters that his client was detained yesterday. Vikash T. Lugdhari said Narayan was questioned about the allegations of theft of the legends hotels around from the legends hotel around the time of the County Tyrone Teacher's Murder on the Indian Ocean Island. He said his client denied any wrongdoing following Mrs. McReevey's killing in 2011 Narayan was initially charged with conspiracy to murder but that was later reduced to a larsenary charge and that larsenary charge was struck out in 2013. I do wonder how it must feel for Michaela's family. You know those little bits of news information wondering will it get anywhere or not. On to the Irish son now health minister Stephen Donnelly this is quite an interesting comment from him and it's kind of what we were reading between the lines of yesterday you know when we said he clearly doesn't think that masks on its own would have any meaningful impact in stopping the spread of COVID and therefore no point introducing them that's what his view is that's what Tony is telling him well health minister Stephen Donnelly went further than later in the day to say that only a full lockdown will halt the COVID surge but no new restrictions are planned so in other words they believe that only a full lockdown would have any impact on the virus to spread any meaningful impact and they're not going to go down that route but he urged people who have not had a boost to do so as the hospital system is under severe pressure Mr Donnelly added there's no consideration of bringing in new measures the minister said the BA.2 variant which had been gaining ground fast in Ireland is so transmissible only a full level five lockdown could beat it however he said only around half of patients in critical care have been boosted and urged others to get the job and that number actually fell yesterday in terms of the overall number fell to 50 yesterday. Sinn Fein health spokesperson David Cullinan said the public health advice for no change sorry was for no change and we have to accept that he said after tackling Mr Donnelly on the issue he's saying that the advice from the CMO at the moment is no change so tinkering around the edges with restrictions is not going to make any difference because of the transmissibility of the disease which means the only option is for a full level five lockdown and that is not an option that is being considered. Back pages of the papers today of course that Ireland have extended their own beat and run in international football with a late winner against Lithuania yesterday very finely now as we mentioned the t-shock admitted yesterday that price increases on food and energy will continue right to the end of the year in the mirror Mihal Martin was responding to Sinn Fein chief Mary Lou McDonald who called on the government to intervene again to help households who were struggling with soaring bills okay that was a run through of the newspapers we'll be back with more our first guest in fact after the break the newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Sentra mountain top letter Kenny you could run you could dance or you could just breathe the Bernardo's big active supported by Aldi is happening in schools across Ireland right now and it makes doing good feel great it gets classmates of all ages active but supporting their mental health and well-being the Bernardo's big active supported by Aldi will 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for public health measures to try and tackle the rise in covid cases and its impact on the health system those calls are falling on deaf ear from both to with both opposition and government parties and also i referenced yesterday the emergency department task force it's requesting public health measures are reconsidered by the government but as you've also been hearing steven donnelly seems to be ruling that out he says it's level five is the only thing would have any impact well dr furglough hickies president of the irish association of emergency medicine he joins us on the program now good morning to you dr hickie how are you keeping this has been unrelenting for a long period of time but we've now we've got a perfectly we have significant staff shortages because many staff are off because they've contracted covid we have typically between 400 and 660 patients on trolleys each day for the last few weeks and essentially it's intolerable and something needs to be done about it the message though it seems coming from all sides of the doll is that you know if you wear a mask but it's not mandatory of course and there doesn't seem quite as much emphasis on you know encouraging vaccine uptake is that a worry it is a worry i mean i get a sense and certainly the commentary from steven donnelly would suggest that they're taking an all-or-nothing approach in other words they're either going to go to holog which they clearly have no intention of doing or they're going to do or say nothing and i think that's not acceptable you know we have done very well in in dealing with this pandemic given the the capacity problems that we know health service suffers from and now when we get to the point where we have record numbers of people in hospital everybody's saying i'm sure there's nothing we can do about it that isn't good enough you know i think we need to be clear in strongly recommending to people that they wear masks in all indoor settings particularly things like public transport particularly things like retail we have we have maintained the mask mandate in hospitals we do get some blowback from from some individuals about it but most people eventually comply when it's pointed out to them that the alternative they won't be seen but i you know i i don't think it's acceptable to go from everything to nothing and that seems to be the current situation nobody is suggesting that we can actually conquer this variant of amicron but what we're trying to do is try to reduce transmission and by reducing transmission reduce the number of staff that have to be off sick as a result and reduce the number of patients who are coming through the front door and of course right from the very beginning of this and the phrase was you know weaponized and and and used but the whole notion right from the beginning of flattening the curve was to there was an inevitability that people were going to get it but was to slow to slow the rate so to ease the pressure on the hospital system that's what the whole flattening the curve was about and that was based on the fact that there's a lot of evidence to show that our bed capacity our acute bed capacity was inadequate before we started our critical care capacity was inadequate before we started our infrastructure is poor therefore our capacity to isolate people from one another is very poor so we had an even greater need to flatten the curve than many other jurisdictions obviously you know we're we're familiar with our colleagues across the water in the UK and they have struggled with this but other countries in Europe that have better infrastructure than either of us have and that have better critical care capacity they struggle to deal with this but we are because of our poor capacity and that's that's something that's replication the NHS we're particularly vulnerable and therefore we have a greater need to flatten the curve than other jurisdictions some might say though that a lot of the the problems that you listed right from the beginning are historic how big of an impact is is covid on how hospitals are running at the moment versus how hospitals would be running anyway because of the likes of particularly here in the northwest staff shortages and what have you the impact of covid is huge and cannot be underestimated I mean about half the people who come in with half the people with covid come in with symptoms of covid the other half are found to have covid when they turn up for other reasons like they've fractured their ankle or they've got appendicitis or a bowel obstruction or heart attack or whatever it be but but you know covid has a massive impact because it is transmitted from patient to patient it's transmitted from patient to staff it's potentially transmitted from staff to patient so we have outbreaks on on many of our wards in most of our hospitals and we have a loss of staff off not because they're covid contacts but because they've actually contracted covid so the impact of covid is enormous now it's not an excuse for the failure of success of government to deal with the capacity problem that needs to be said but it means that the impact of covid is magnified in an irish context okay we're hearing from from yourself Dr Hickey and we're hearing from the INMO and others working within the system and up to now the government is is is not taking on board your concerns or that of the IMO in an actionable way right and and what we heard from government people we've been interviewing and our position people we've been interviewing is that well we're following the CMO's advice this is what Tony Hulan is saying so why is there such a difference in say for instance the likes of your opinion as a medical professional and Dr Tony Hulan's because they have the letter from Dr Tony Hulan that really covers them not to do anything well it was well first of all they have stood down neph it so you know the broad constituents of neph it are no longer being heard I think that's a pity it's not that we ever thought that covid had gone away I think stepping down neph it seems to have been a triumphalist move that we've actually got past this when the reality was we hadn't I mean I haven't seen Tony Hulan's advice I'm told that he has offered advice but Tony Hulan is a single individual whereas neph it was a much larger organization and that had expertise from a number of sources so you know it would be a pity if you know after Tony Hulan's excellent stewardship of this for the last few years this was all being put on him whereas he had the advantage of having a group of experts who who he was able to chair that group and offer their you know their consensus opinion to government but we haven't seen what that advice is we've been told the devices there's nothing you can do I suspect Tony Hulan didn't say anything as live as that but what he has probably said is that short of going back to a full restriction we can't conquer this but nobody's asking for this to be conquered we're asking for the curve to be flattened so we're asking that the health service isn't allowed to be run into the ground which currently is the situation the clinical staff involved in this have been doing this for two years there's a limit and I said this yesterday in another forum that this as far as I'm concerned the elastic band has actually snapped and that is what we need to protect against that what we don't want is large numbers of people say at this point I can't keep doing this I need to leave I need to get out I need to go to somewhere that's less pressurized because the impact of that on emergency departments is going to be catastrophic now and I understand that people who want this to be behind us maybe they've recently had COVID to go over it in the fine now and maybe people feel the bullet proof and I get that and I don't think anyone wants to be in a position that we have to go back to wearing masks and I respect that but we can't ignore what's happening in our hospitals and let me ask you this finally then you know the the thing with this sort of big break in public health messaging that I'd have a concern with and I'm not not medical at all is that we are dealing with thankfully at the moment a population that is heavily vaccinated and quite heavily boosted and you know it's it's it's it's warmer maybe it's it that helps us but we could be heading towards a situation whereby another variant may come along vaccines may begin to wane maybe the climate might have a negative impact as well or not I don't know of course but we've lost the the train of public messaging does that make sense in that I just wonder if we think the freeway is moving really really clear now when it's really quite clogged but we are facing you know we are facing gridlock in the hospitals and in public health because it's going to hit us like a wrecking ball in a couple of months time well that would be my concern Greg is that you know this is a very this particular sub variant of Omicron is particularly transmissible and particularly contagious that's not to say that there isn't one coming that's even going to be more transmissible and more contagious but has the greater capacity to actually kill or cause serious illness for people I think we need to bear in mind that many of the people in hospital I think you said it in your introduction when you were talking about the newspapers is that many of the people in intensive care are not boosted many of the people in hospital are either either partially immunized or not immunized and that's something we need to address I mean there is still a group of people out there who for whatever reason have concluded that they do not need to be fully immunized this is crazy stuff because not alone have the capacity to be seriously ill and potentially die as a result but they have the capacity to transmit it to their loved ones who may end up being far more vulnerable and even though that they've been vaccinated their their medical vulnerabilities may trump the capacity of vaccination to protect them. Dr. Fergal Hickey thank you very much this morning president of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine and and the reason we have to talk about it and we have to is that anyone who's been through the hospital system recently not anyone but many of you will know what we're talking about here we're talking about a very very difficult situation people under great pressure huge delays and in some cases people feeling that and I'm not talking necessarily about letter kenny universe hospital feeling that they went in and they were sent home and they didn't really get all the tests and all the checks that maybe they thought they needed to go home assured that they're going to be okay and you know these are people who work in the hospital system and their voices cannot be ignored but as I say it's not a conversation we necessarily want to return to but as as I said and I'm sorry to keep repeating that phrase it can't be ignored either these are people that work in hospitals and are the 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vacant it seems or the it would have seemed a natural uh thing to repurpose them so they could be occupied and there was talk of them being knocked down too and some talk of it allowing access to to another development and all that kind of stuff well has there been an update from clued on this issue yeah there is a list not often time on radio with good news and uh taking this opportunity to tank island radio who have been consistent uh on on uh airing this very important issue uh and being a part of that uh push to get clued to do the right thing so i just want to recognize that greg and i think it's important and also recognizing that everybody who has participated in this from council officials to other councillors for what was happening was that we in the md englenties have been raising this for a very very long time not just the clued housing association but also response who had a floor lying empty there for a very long time we're in the middle of one of the worst crises that the 26 counties have seen in relation to the lack of home which is a deliberate policy of state we have people in west englent as there are and other parts of the county who are actually homeless uh and for whatever reason uh clued had decided uh that them apartments were ignored or had an excuse that the hse had participated in keeping them as they were so what looks like what was happened was that there was a deal done with the hse excuse me i'm a bit of cold uh hse now there are some people that were in these apartment that's their homes so i'm just conscious of that but the rest of the apartments had laid empty clued then had told us when we met with them last june now that's a fair bit of time that has changed and the cost of development has changed dramatically since as well and we met with them yesterday uh council staff and councillors they were very adamant in their position we were uh equally uh if not more adamant that we were not moving from our position that we would not allow uh these buildings to be knocked down and i as i explained to the ceo very clearly uh that if they didn't hear devices of those that were elected by the public that they would that they would certainly hear us on the day that they would look to demolish the building so did they change their position yesterday was it it was they changed the position there and then and what angers me is that and and what really angers me is that yes the apartments have been lying empty for all these uh lent all these years when we could have people uh honed in them uh but they made that decision at the beginning of the meeting they were very entrenched we both sides were very much in our trenches neither of us were moving uh i believe that all six councillors had their correct position on this here uh we weren't for moving and it took a fair bit of time and pushing and and that includes all the councillors not just me uh and we got them to change the position actually what happened was that one of them the senior management changed the position uh right there and then at a meeting and it was well that's something that they have to uh work to work through themselves with on their own uh staffing but it showed clearly that they could have changed the position all along they wanted to knock these perfectly fine uh this perfectly fine structure to make way to build uh 12 other i think two bedrooms possibly three bedroom homes we want them homes built as well how long would it take to build them homes i would have taken for ages to build them given how clued given how clued has handled this do you believe that maybe the department of housing planning and local government needs to review it's approval of it as a housing body not in any way to sort of withdraw that approval but maybe you know this is obviously one decision that was resisted locally strongly logically it made no sense to knock these down and at a meeting one individual changed their mind and now they're going to be retained and refurbished firstly that one person would have that influence i think is is it's welcome in this case but it's i think it's worrying overall i mean i wanted to do just the department need to maybe have an assessment of of clued and its decision making well i i think we need to have a major discussion one in our communities uh right right across from the airways to our newspapers to our community halls around housing we were like i said we're facing a crisis we have people who are homeless we have people now who had planned to build homes who can't afford to build homes we have people who wanted to return from far off shores to rare families in this area even late last night they had people who were in contact with me about their hopes and aspirations to move home to rare children to put them to schools we have schools who are closing down but there's a whole problem in terms of availability in terms of availability at those who are renting long term because a lot of people have moved to air b and b and the problems that that's causing we have the problem that the government failed to build adequate homes and looked to the likes of housing associations instead of investing it into our local authority and the local authority to build the houses because that's where that's who has but there are the people who should be building homes and now we need to look at the cost of building homes where it's beyond anybody the ordinary working class the ability to build to build a nice home for themselves excuse me all right and that's the difficulty and then we look we need to look at all the countries and models that they have in relation to to how we live and it's shocking that here we are talking on radio about apartments that have laid empty for years and years and years but we have people who are who are who are who are homeless at the moment or indeed you might have a home but it's not a long-term sustainable can i can i because i was i just wanted an opportunity and you must be thinking i'm looking from something from island one embracing is all this much this morning but again another cause that you championed right through and i'm grateful for is is the dredging and my erotic that started the day we've been fighting for this for a long time when the minister made this strange decision to stop the dredging which affected the ferry service to our islands and the fishing community at kwharote and i just want to take the opportunity because it was over there this morning talking to uh stonehill and and i want to complete the union dimension in relation to the work that's starting now and as we speak they'll be starting the dredge there's a number of people over there and that's fantastic news that we're seeing and i hope that we get this dredging finished but what we need is we need is it's the wall that we were promised understood the breakwater finally before i let you go obviously you know work continues on the ground at work continues on the ground it would contact between the likes of yourselves and and council officials and making representations and local electoral area meetings but to discuss the the big issues as well a platform to do so that the county council i don't know when the last time we had two consecutive full council meetings they constantly are being adjourned uh how frustrated at you that we are not seeing democracy in action in that forum and what are your constituents saying to you about it i mean you're part of it well look uh there's no point in saying otherwise yes a lot of people when you're in the shops are out and about yes people are saying it to you what's happened we're on the council chamber why aren't you meeting uh i think there's a frustration amongst all i think we we need to get on with our work because that's why we're here we're here to uh to be elected while we're here elected to represent the public the best as we can we don't have much powers as it is because that was taken off us consistently over many many years no but it's an important platform to discuss the issues correct and it's a very important like hence the housing and and and include uh the dredging and the hierarchy other very important issues that we that we work in relation to try to bring change and to highlight and we do need to have a meeting but all councillors who are asking questions also need to get answers to their questions and i think that that's really important but we do we need to sit down and within the structures as as i laid out within the council presumably excuse me the questions have to be asked within the structures that are laid out by the council that's how it all works doesn't oh yes absolutely but well look i can only talk about my own experiences that i find it very frustrating when you're raising questions and and and that you could be waiting a very very very long time to get an answer if you get it at all uh and i believe sometimes that that can be deliberate uh and and there could be other reasons look at the end of the day we have a situation where we haven't met properly uh i want to see if get on now do what we're here to uh do and that everybody and it's important that everybody is respected right through this whole process and that we just get on with what the public expect us we are absolutely on our knees i i can speak clearly for west and the gulf because that's where i'm elected for we're one of the most socially economically deprived communities we have well that's it i mean i've done that and we expect yous you people who we pay uh and i don't mean that in any way i'm not i don't mean that as if i'm no no no no no i don't mean i don't mean that in any way shape you know that yeah i don't believe in any classes or anything else councillors else councillors are feelings too correct you know exactly that's why i have to be very you're for a particular sensitive counsellor so i'm choosing my words uh carefully no but uh all jokes aside we we expect yous to come up with solutions to be able to meet and discuss the problems that affect us and we'll hopefully that's absolutely and that's important and that's important and we don't always agree especially because i come from a very strong left-wing republican right really position yes you know and and what do you call it uh i don't always agree what what the other positions of other some of the other uh independent councillors or uh the other party councillors but i think yesterday was a fantastic show of unity and strength and i have to be honest i'm so delighted and over the that's right to the meeting with clued yes yes voice that made collude moved their position it's powerful and that's why it's important we spoke to you this morning and i appreciate your time thank you very much thank you thanks very much for me to take care of yourself councillor michael colomagull and as big he has spoken on the issue as does councillor myteries gallaghan representatives from all parties and none uh they all worked together uh to pressure clued to reverse that decision as it relates to those apartments they have done so uh and we've been talking about that for quite some time and it's good to see a positive uh resolution we might not talk about it down the line but what it means is in a few months time there'll be i don't know how many apartments they'll be able to provide there let's just say it's five or six or something along those lines that's five or six couples or individuals or families that will have a secure roof over the head and uh that's a win the nine till noon show brought to you by kelly's toyota port road letter kenny explore our wide range of virtual tools at kelly's toyota dot com highland radio wants to send you on the holiday of a lifetime plus five grand spending money get your ticket now at highland radio dot com answer the question and start packing start packing draw takes place april 14th on the nine till then show start planning your 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some of europe's best family campsites irland west airport you're flying yeah so it was uh noticeably more chilly this morning i'll bring you the weather forecast now for the rest of today and i can tell you that mist and fog will clear this morning as cloudy conditions with sherry rain spreads from the north introducing much colder weather along with a freshening northeast breeze drier and brighter weather will follow for the late afternoon and evening along with a few showers of rain or hail afternoon temperatures just five to eight degrees but it doesn't feel even though the temperature is lower it doesn't feel bitterly cold outside right okay now on t shark mehill martin is coming to the region over a couple of days this weekend he's going to be in letter kenny on saturday um there've been requests i'm joined on the program now by the way i should say by michael darty pier of the mica action group good morning to you michael morning great i'm doing fine um i presume there have been requests to meet uh with on t shark uh obviously given the the nature of the the crisis up here as he responded to your calls or maybe the request is being made through the offices of charlie mcconnell tell us what's uh what what has been requested of anything yeah um obviously we were never going to miss the opportunity uh with the t-shirt coming to the region as you say um so we did put a formal request through to uh minister mcconnell that was uh 12 days ago now on the 18th of the month and um we heard nothing back so we had our monday evening our usual monday make action group meeting and uh we just called it out that we couldn't be ignored in this fashion and uh we went ahead and said we were inviting ourselves and ironically then we have it appears to have been yesterday evening we've got an invite now uh through charlie mcconnell and it looks like they're going to try and shoe horn is in somewhere uh into the itinerary uh on the saturday so uh yes we're welcome not we look forward to that but it'll not take anything away from what we're doing regarding bringing people back to the streets well that's what i was going to say i mean i wonder would that have happened if they had said yes of course you know this is a big issue uh we'll meet a delegation we'll set aside an hour on saturday morning and we want to hear what you have to say and we want to give you an update i imagine if that conversation had have happened at the time of the request we wouldn't necessarily perhaps be seeing such an organized feat on the street yeah and i think this is typical again of what we've been dealing with all along great you know everything's reactionary everything's last minute everything is after you hold their feet to the fire to the point where they eventually squeal and um that's exactly what we've done um i'm fairly familiar with what the itinerary was for the t-shirt and certainly we weren't done as part of it so they're looking to get a shoehorn done there somewhere now um but to your point would this have happened otherwise my own gut feel is no we wouldn't have been getting an invite and to think that your t-shirt would waltz into the county and waltz back out again having not uh looked to engage and with anyone representing the biggest issue this county has ever had beggars belief to be honest i wonder you know this is not really this is just my comment but how politics have changed back in the day i think what would have happened was is that you know a a t-shirt would have made sure they had a bit of good news uh on a big issue going into a region and actually would have sought to meeting themselves that's how it seemed to operate in the past but we seem to be in in a different space now maybe i'm just looking back with rose tinted glasses be what what questions does mihal motton need to answer now if you were if he were on the line and and he would put a couple of questions to him what are those questions well i think the first question is what have you guys done to resource this 2.2 billion euro scheme and i know the answer to that because i'm in conversations with the the relevant people and we don't have dedicated resources you know it's if you were in the private sector and you're dealing with 500 thousands of a scheme you would make sure it was resourced you would make sure there was plans in place there were work streams for all the different facets that's involved in a scheme and we're multiplying that up so many times reach 2.2 billion and yet we seem to be tagging on to the job roles of people that are in existing jobs it's you know it just represents the complete uh none urgency and lack of urgency that they seem to be treating us with here and we have got homes that are you know we've got schemes that are on a standstill even with the local authorities because of being kept in the dark and no answers being forwarded by uh the department uh regards what they do with the likes of Piratite that they've been told to ignore because it's not in the IS 465 standard and yet the council knows it's crazy to ignore it because you've been making the wrong decisions in terms of whether it's a demolition or a an outer leaf but the department will give no guidance so things are at a standstill the only thing that's not at a standstill is the rate at which these homes are crumbling and there is a complete lack of appreciation for that and homeowners are rightly extremely frustrated and you know they're they're looking across at one another we're picking at one another where in actual fact the problem is still in Dublin it was always in Dublin that and the local authorities and they're just not making it happen and people's frustrations boiling over and I think they need to come in on Saturday channel that frustration in a very appropriate way and make sure that we're not ignored yeah and I mean obviously you know there are people are going to be staying over at the same hotel but uh you can't make an omelet as opposed to that breaking some eggs sometimes so in terms of uh because this you obviously and and uh those involved in this are are right across it and have a intimate understanding of everything that's going on right but for those who may not or find it difficult to get their heads around stuff I'm a little bit like that myself to be honest I mean is there were there was announcements okay and then there was some commentary as to right you know this is the best deal we can do at the moment and it is close you know at least close to a hundred percent for the majority of people right okay so what has changed that this language has changed now that we're talking again about this isn't costed this is stalled um you know the only thing that that is progressing is that the crumbling of the houses what has changed over the last you know I don't know how long it is couple of months that we've seemed to have moved from a positive position where it feels to me as a an onlooker as a almost a not well not quite a square one position but do you get where I'm coming from absolutely do Greg and I think it's a very fair point um and it's not that we're jumping around with us we have to take what's in front of us at any given time and what was in front of us at the scsi announcement um was um a proper investigation into costs that was taken place by an independent body and they were using qs's from the area here and from all our affected parts of the northwest as well so and that was massively different to the cost ends that was being put forward by the department via the sliding scale but the important part to note is that the department were still involved because they were able to dictate what the remit was what the terms of reference was for scsi so they're they've done a good enough job I believe in the cost ends per square foot for what they were allowed to cost but there were things that they weren't were not allowed to cost for example replacement of foundations were not in there it was going to be a home built to 2007 regulations they were told not to allow for even a carpet on your floor to some extent that was accepted but we seem to have gone not accepted but it still was all right this is progress what where's the reverse come from where's the reverse come from where we're back in the area of you know frustration stalled process government needs answers like what is where's the regression come from I think the regression is coming from the fact that you know again we we were given something that we were taken in good faith and then a bit of the devil in the details starts to emerge again Greg and we had this before now there is detail in there that people need to know there's eight reference houses in there now not all the houses probably about 10 15 percent of our houses are going to fit neatly into them mate now we have the in-betweeners and it's not clear yet what's happening these in-betweeners and we have sought that detail that detail is still being kicked about by the department which concerns us because anything that the department got involved in in the past was definitely not in the interest of the homeowners so we were we were told we'd be getting independence it can't be independence for eight houses it has to be independence for all houses and that detail is still lacking you know so that's an example of the sorts of things we're up against the options two to five which is to do with the outer leaf there are big concerns now on the back of you know reinforced information and I know you had Paul Dunlop and Eileen Daugherty on there talking about this stuff you know we still have a department that seems to be blind to what science is telling them out there and they're still pushing options two to five when actual fact we have very very strong reason to believe that depending on the results that come back through that um you know less than demolition won't work yeah but that being said though Michael long before um some time ago I've said it here and others have said it as well it never made sense that you would do an outer leaf and not an inner leaf given what actually causes these uh blocks to deteriorate that it wouldn't make any sense to build uh you know on foundations that may well include the same problematic chemicals and and and what have you you know like I thought this was kind of a lot of people felt this for quite some time that an outer leaf option just was not really ever going to be satisfactory even with some sort of a state guarantee because there was an inevitability at what's going to happen down the line and really we've just heard at a webinar that being reinforced that you know by someone who really knows his stuff of course but it doesn't fit it doesn't seem like new information to me as an onlooker I think the difference is that everyone had their suspicions all along and you know if you're taking it and standing back in layman's challenge you say it's the same blocks come off the same lorry you know what's the difference between an outer leaf and an inner leaf uh the concrete came from the same quarry it's got the same aggregate in it what's the difference there was uh proposals put forward by department at the time because concrete is much more dense it's you know 35 40 newton concrete as opposed to blocks that are meant to be 5 or 7 newton that this would have less of an effect all of the time there has been science emerging and that science you know cumulated I believe in the form of what came forward through that european seminar and then it put a lot of what was suspicions to bed and there were more of facts than there were suspicions I think that's the difference because there are people that have to adopt that science though uh michael it feels to me and this is might be why the government or the civil servants don't want to take it on board it seems to me that this would inflate the cost of the scheme greatly uh and the extent of the not only the cost of the scheme in fixing the houses that have been identified as problematic but it would broaden it out uh you know to to include an awful lot more houses like as I say you know half are we are we at square one then we thought of mine I don't think we're square one I think where we're at is a place where we have to take stock of the facts that surround us and you know there's a lot of more a lot more information available now than what there was when the scheme was first announced people have been uh you know the experience of the houses that have been tested for example you know there's about 600 houses worth of data out there now that should be taken should be uh plowed into proper research and yet we don't see any evidence of that happening so you know we're taking this policy very simply Greg sorry about just before 10 say they announced like a 10 million uh and it probably would take something like that there to do a deep analysis right because of course the from the webinar we were talking about three or four samples right I think so this would take a much more detail can the scheme continue whilst that level of of investigation was ongoing finally Michael yes it can but if in doubt take it out that has to be the strategy until science tells us that less will do okay listen thanks for your time as always I really do appreciate it thanks Greg all right take care by the way that protest sorry this is why we began the conversation yeah a gathering of people it's at the in the vicinity of the Radisson hotel Saturday morning from about 1145 yeah correct and the last thing I'd like to say Greg is there's one in Derry as well at 7 p.m because the whole the holy homeowners need to be represented that's a place for them but we would ask that's a very dignified rally because it's the John John Hume memorial that uh we have got the Taoiseach visiting and we absolutely want to be respectful but I would also say John Hume if he was here today would see the great injustice that's been done and would certainly support what we're looking to do here so but let's keep it dignified all right listen thank you very much for your time as always appreciated any views or comments on that 08 660 25 000 whatsapps or texts or give us a call in 07491 25 000 another busy two hours on the way but we take a break now for the news with Donald Kavanaugh and the obituary notices live on air online and on the Highland Radio app this is Highland Radio News good morning it's 10 o'clock Donald Kavanaugh at the news desk the foreign affairs minister has told the doll the proposal by the British government to introduce an electronic travel authorization system could have serious consequences for Donny Gull the issue was raised in the doll last evening by three opposition cds from the county who highlighted their belief that this would compromise the good Friday agreements promised freedom of movement across the border concern was also expressed that this could lead to the reintroduction of border checks minister Simon Coveney told them House of Lords amendment which would have exempted the border from the scheme was rejected but it may be come before the House of Commons again and he said the government would be pushing to ensure that if it does it'll be accepted this time the introduction of the proposed ETA scheme for cross-border journeys could cause considerable disruption to the daily lives and livelihoods many people it's clear that border counties such as Donny Gull would be particularly affected most journeys to and from Donny Gull naturally crossed the border since this proposal emerged the government have been engaged with the British government at both official and political level to express our serious concern with regard to the proposed ETA scheme there is time to try and change this and I can assure you we would be very active in our attempts to do that Ukraine's military says Russian pledges to scale back operations in two key cities represents nothing more than an attempt to mislead the Kremlin is withdrawing forces from the outskirts of Kiev but Western officials believe they're just being redeployed elsewhere Russia's announcement came following peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky has cautiously welcomed progress being made but says Russia still can't be trusted we can call the signals we hear from the negotiating platform positive but these signals do not drown out the blows of Russian shells of course we see all the risks a 36 year old man detained in Straban yesterday in connection with the shooting incident in the Spring Hill Park area in February has been released without charge the peace and I say their investigations into the assault are continuing the designation of the new Atlantic Technological University represents far more than just a name change that's the conclusion of research carried out on behalf of the Northern and Western Regional Assembly which has found the ATU will contribute at least 700 million euro in economic output and support just over 3,100 jobs per year NWRA economist John Daly says his economic impact will be a significant improvement on the individual contributions of letter k and institute of technology IT Sligo and GMIT at present Mr Daly says the new institution will play a key role in supporting the recovery of the Northern and Western region's economy it will allow the college to deliver a higher quality in terms of academic courses which obviously deliver higher quality in terms of academic degrees and improved skills that all of which contribute to the North West economy and deliver high valued social and economic benefits that we expect to be delivered well the new university officially comes into being on Friday with the governing body of the new university convening for the first time at ATU Donegal in letter Kenny the governing body will confirm Dr Orla Flynn as its president the ATU will be officially opened on Monday next by minister for further and higher education research innovation and science Simon Harris he'll be at an event in ATU in Sligo and that'll be live streamed to campuses in Galloway, Mayo and Donegal Irish workers will be entitled to mandatory sick pay for the first time under new laws the cabinet has approved a bill giving employees the right to take three sick days by the end of this year that'll rise to five next year seven the following year and 10 by 2026 a Donegal County council is being urged to complete work on a listed bridge in the Twin Towns the bridge which links Malibu Faye and Strunaller over the River Finn had deteriorated a number of years ago the TII and Donegal County council carried out repair work when other works began in the area however that work on the bridge was suspended Councillor Patrick McGowan says it's now time to come back and finish it there's some very unsightly polls ESB carrying ESB wires and lights and that actually and one's actually coming out of the bridge itself so you fire up at wall and that has to be removed so there's a lot of two in a form the different agencies but my understanding that's been long started out so it's time now that they actually go on and and finish the job weather forecast mist and fog clearing with cloudy conditions and sherry rain spreading from the north through the morning much colder weather today along with a freshening northeast breeze drier and brighter weather coming in in the late afternoon and evening with some showers of rain or hail afternoon temperatures not going above eight degrees celsius today cold and frosty overnight with mostly clear skies wintry showers about in minimum temperatures of minus three to zero degrees celsius moderate northeast breezes tomorrow a cold bright and frosty start good spells of spring sunshine but it'll feel notably chilly in a brisk northeasterly breeze scattered showers of rain hail and sleep tomorrow a possibility of some snow on higher ground highest temperatures six to eight in a fresh northeast wind and that's island radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock the obituary notices for this wednesday morning the 30th of march the death house taken place of john harkin glenn crow mobile removal from eternal light chapel of rest mountaintop letter kenny this afternoon at four o'clock going to his home funeral arrangements will be confirmed later the death house taken place of mary mchew named mcmullin 74 art connell glenties her remains will repose at shovelin's funeral home sandfield art draw from four o'clock this afternoon with removal at half past five to her late residents removal from there on friday morning to st connell's church glenties for 11 o'clock requiem mass with burial afterwards in the local cemetery family flowers only please donations in lieu of desire to kilbeck's community hospital patients comfort fund care of james mcginnis and sons funeral directors funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv the death house taken place of catlino hanlon nae wallace 19 glenn road stroban and formerly of coal island her remains will repose at quickly's funeral home from five o'clock this evening with removal at half past six to sacred heart church dairy road requiem mass tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in lieu of flowers please to w h s ct greenfield residential home care of quickly funeral directors requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death house taken place of theresa cuskelly nae o reilly thorndale letterkenny and formerly of lower art o'donnell letterkenny her remains are reposing at her late residents at thorndale house quickly private please at the request of the deceased funeral mass in st junan's cathedral letterkenny tomorrow morning at 11 followed by burial in conwall cemetery family flowers only please donations in lieu of desired to the dunigol hospice care of any family member or jim medlin funeral director the death house taken place in london of christie tinney hammer smith and formerly of grahamsland castle finne funeral mass in st auguston's church hammer smith at quarter past 12 on friday afternoon followed by interment finneville can be viewed live on the parish web page the death has occurred of father patrick doger columbin fathers dalgan park navin county meath and late of gordon claire road clegan north donamana straban and the peru mission finneville mass tomorrow in st columbins dalgan park at 11 o'clock followed by burial in the community cemetery the death has occurred of mary macketeer nay mcmeneman whiteheart rath mullen requiem mass tomorrow thursday at one o'clock followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only please house strictly private to family and close friends mass can be viewed on mcn media dot tv donations in lieu of flowers please to the lord invalid fund care of mckelwee funeral directors or any family member the death has taken place of danie mcgilloway rockstown urus clon mani his remains are opposing at his late residence finneville from there tomorrow at half past 10 to st michael's church urus for requiem mass at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family fires only please donations in lieu of desire to the renal unit letter kenny university hospital care of commiskey funeral directors or any family member finneville mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv the death has taken place of leigh mcdonnell rye manor cunningham his remains are opposing at his late residence which is private to family and close friends please finneville from there tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 traveling via manor cunningham main street to st columbus church dromahal for 11 o'clock requiem mass followed by interment in the adjoining church yard family fires only please donations in lieu of desire to the Irish cancer society care of any family member the death has taken place of huo donnell gordon assila glentes his remains are opposing at his brother patrick o'Donnell's home at gordon assila house private please removal this morning for requiem mass at 11 o'clock in st connell's church glentes burial afterwards in the local cemetery family fires welcome or donations in lieu of desire to st joseph's patients comfort fund care of any family member funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv and the death has taken place of robert mccollie lennemore muff robert's remains are opposing at his nephew john and pauline mccollie's residence at carnamoil muff service there at two o'clock this afternoon with burial afterwards in cumore parish church family fires only please donations in lieu of desire to letter kenny university hospital care of porter funeral directors for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com welcome back to the program hope you still well hi greg where these census forms it's now the 30th of march and i still haven't got my form i'm not sure i think they're still out delivering the mine was only dropped in friday was it i think friday was it friday or saturday so they're still going around at this point greg could one of our local service station owners come on your show and explain why diesel and petrol have gone up by 12 cent a litre when it had just come down 12 cent two weeks ago i'm referring to the initial and area right across the county and i do drive around much of it it's not unique to your area by the way i do note that it's over two euro a litre from petrol in some places particularly in the south of the county seemingly it must have gone up i don't know i think when they're doing the business use on the national stations it'd be interesting if they did the price of a barrel of oil they do so in britain often and then maybe we'd get some sort of sense of what's going on right community centre in conjunction with milford resource centre and milford gea taking park in a walk taking part in a walk which leaves from the right community centre to the standing man 10k walk with a shuttle bus available in health checks before the walk if wished and a barbecue afterwards on saturday with registration at 10 a.m starting 11 a.m a sponsored walk aimed at all abilities and family friendly taking place in bung crannet starts at 2 p.m from st mary's hall at 7 kilometer walk teen refreshment afterwards and i'm going to have to presume that saturday because the day is not on it but i take it it's going to be saturday obviously these are walks and climbs taking place to support charlie bird and his support of the motor neuron disease association and also pietta two courses close to him and we will be talking about motor neuron disease as part of our wellness wednesday in the last hour of the program so stay tuned for that hi gregg just like to point out my wife who's a senior carer with a local company had to leave home at 645 to get to work at 745 having to happen to stop at a local service station for the toilet she was refused access she asked why and was told by staff they are not allowed having traveled from letter cany to look after uh an elderly and vulnerable people within her community i think now that restrictions are all lifted this is shocking treatment to one of the most dedicated carers there is shame on this company now i can't mention the company just because we have to get their policy on it but i think that that is really unfair and let's hope they don't need the assistance or help or support of your wife down the line what you know and maybe at this time they could be offering a little bit of support i i don't think i could honestly i'm no angel i've said that before i don't think i could refuse someone the use of the toilet i genuinely don't think i could stand there even if my manager said no one can use the toilet i don't think i could refuse them uh miho martin has a neck on him to come to donnie gol he should be run off the country out of the county say it's another uh perhaps the government know there's a recession coming and that things will be far cheaper once things go bust prices aren't sustainable at present believes the caller hi gregg i have a caravan holiday uh van in donnie gol on this park some neighbors and friends have big problems trying to get maintenance men who work at gas these guys don't answer their phones so in desperation they let anyone try to fix geysers as we all need to share health and safety is an issue can anyone help listen any people working in the likes of tiling plumbing gas you know that those kind they're up to their ears in work and but look at i don't know where this is located but if there's anyone works there in gas i mean obviously it's a very dangerous area of work if you don't know what you're doing if they want to get in contact with us we'll put them in contact with you if there's a bit of work going another caller says i know people who have all vaccines and they now have covered for the third time how come britain america and other countries are saying natural immunity is the way to go except for ireland well no one's saying that to be honest with you we are going for natural immunity that's exactly what happened when they stopped contact tracing in schools months ago that's precisely what we're doing right now um being fully vaccinated and we've known this for a long time with variants particularly when it changed from the original variant vaccines don't stop you getting it they stop you going into hospital you know you can believe that or not it's completely up to you but 1600 people are in hospital 800 of them actually are sick with COVID and over half of them aren't vaccinated and in ICU over half those in ICU aren't vaccinated so that's like 25 people coming from uh four or five percent of the population that's the statistics but it's completely up to you to decide whether or not you wish to believe that but we are in a herd immunity policy that's precisely what we're doing but at the same time if a massive group of people working in hospitals have a view as to what we should be doing we can't ignore that either we are bringing in potentially 200 000 people from Ukraine you think the hospitals are bad now well our population has grown by over a million since 2017 2016 I can't see the point in sort of looking towards the Ukrainians maybe many of those might end up working in hospitals they're here for a short time they want to go back to their country they want the water stop you know they don't necessarily want and i'm sure they welcome it fundraising uh to deal with you know the consequences of war they want the water stop you know in cities in Ukraine today there are children with no food they have no food there's moms holding babies in sellers in cities in Ukraine now and they have no baby food for them what do you feed a hungry eight month old baby when you can't leave your house is destroyed you're in a basement uh what do you do right oh do we seriously want to turn these people away and say well you know things are bad now you know we have to find a way don't we know I can't I could I I couldn't imagine us not helping people like those that I've described Ireland has the lowest rate of ICU beds per head of population in the western Europe and secondly restrictive COVID regulations in the world after Mongolia both are close to facts and we wonder why our health service is struggling time to cop ourselves on as a nation okay right we are uh going to be talking about new um we're going to be talking about new uh regulations which will benefit people as it relates to sick leave and sick pain entitlements in that regard that's on the way but we do take the bingo numbers now and a quick break stay with us um and we'll be right back as I say it's time for NCBI bingo on Highland Radio it's 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leave by 2026 what i wonder why the long lead in Richard well what it is is it it's supposed to be three days this year then five in next year seven in 2024 and 10 in 2025 it's to ease it in i think because a lot of employers do not have sick pay scheme so this i think is the issue that it could all come in as 10 days of one go it will be a big cost to most small employers what is the current situation now well there is no right to paid sick leave unless it's in your contract of employment so you don't have a contract that says you don't then you just get social welfare that's the position yeah okay uh so how will this work uh when the the three sick day entitlement begins so so how does it benefit the employee well the employee will be paid up to 110 euro a day or 70 percent of their normal daily wage if they're out sick so that's that will cover it now if by the way an employer has a more beneficial policy in place then you get the one that's the better for you so it's not so if currently we say let's say an employer has a five day sick pay policy and they're paid full time you know for this year and next year you're not going to get the extra days on top you're going to get whichever is better so that's the position on it i uh presumed there'll be uh the employers aren't going to be happy about this because this is going to hit them in their pocket where it wouldn't have before those that don't already have it in place for their employees yeah well it is because there's quite a bit of administration that's going to be on this as well because remember the employee is going to have to produce a doctor's certificate for any absence so that's going to be a cost to the employee there's going to be a cost to the employer and the employer i mean i'm not overly happy with it in the sense that they're not saying by the way the employer would be exempted from his employer PRSI for such payments which i think would help employers significantly but it is going to be a cost for employers and it's one that's going to have to be factored into the costs which in reality means that will pass on to ultimately customers and clients because it'll be a cost to the business yeah i think we really saw through covid didn't we uh the difference between those that have already have this agreement with their employer and those that don't yes we did and it's a it's a significant issue and by the way i think it's a good idea and the reason on that is you don't want a sick employee coming into the workplace particularly when there's covid around and so you want to have a situation where somebody isn't going to be there and passing it on to other staff members or to customers or clients so there's benefits in relation to this from an employer side it's not just a cost element as well it's a it's a health and safety issue as well yeah employers need to look at the bigger picture richard as always thanks for explaining things so simply for us i appreciate it greatly 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your body back to brilliant to find out more go to ask the physio.ie following their recent great away win over shelburn finharps are back in league action with two vital home matches first up our champions shamrock rovers this friday followed by drahoudy united on monday both matches keek off at eight and tickets are now available at finharps.ie that's harps versus shamrock rovers this friday night and drahoudy united on monday night at fin park see finharps.ie for details okay of course you would have heard earlier on if you were listening michael dowherty talking about a protest which is being scheduled now for uh the radison hotel in letter kenny on saturday it's to coincide with a visit to the county the region by on t-shock a protest also taking place in in dairy now it was stated during the course that interview that they had appealed to the officers of minister charlie mcconnellog 15 16 days ago at the start of march anyway it was all towards the start of march seeking a meeting nothing had been forthcoming in that regard they organized this protest and then last night i think he said last night that a meeting was agreed or offered and that i think he said he'd be shoehorned into his agenda he's looked at his agenda and it's not officially there and that's where i think the shoehorned comment come from so in response in the interests of fairness and balance minister of agriculture food and marine charlie mcconnellog joins us on the program now charlie i i imagine because you're in dublin i'd imagine that too that maybe you're hearing some of this second hand but as i've tried to outline it as clearly as possible to you do you think the criticism is fair yes thanks greg and no i don't think it's fair and i didn't actually hear the comment but it's been referred to me and i've delayed a meeting there just to make sure i can clarify it on your show because i wouldn't want to do any question mark over the fact that there was absolute clear understanding that there would be a meeting with the t-shirt and that that was very much part of the plan in terms of the t-shirt's visit to the county i have been pleasing with the chairperson of the mic action group who had made a request when the t-shirt was in the county that there'd be a meeting and i given assurance that i would ensure that there would be a meeting and certainly in relation to my engagement with the t-shirt's office and the t-shirt's commitment to this is absolutely paramount and he has shown massive commitment and support to the mic issue from the outset as you know i asked him to visit back last summer which he did and he met with mic the representatives of mic action group at that time and after that then the t-shirt had requested working with the minister for housing to put together the working group to actually fully assess the issue and coming out of that has been massively supportive in relation to driving through and delivering on the new scheme when the t-shirt would have visited the county and met with the mic a group back last summer great the scheme that was in place was a was a scheme that had a maximum of 275 000 euros you know and was a scheme which delivered nothing in relation to what had been the 9010 that had been outlined at the start what's in place now is the scheme that is supported in 25 000 euro based on up-to-date uh castings based on mark reflecting the market and will be every year from now on i had committed to the mic action group i think it was the 19th or 20th of march when in the contract i'd committed to ensuring that there would be a meeting if the t-shirt was coming um there was obviously a question mark at that stage given the fact that the t-shirt had contracted COVID um in the state system what exactly would be happening with the diary um but absolutely was clear that they would ensure that there'd be a meeting and there wasn't there's never been any questions right so so so we're absolutely clear then about timings uh minister when they reached out to you he says of course the the t-shocks coming to the the uh county or the region will facilitate a meeting and it was uh it was when his agenda was being finalized uh and i think he said last night that was when a time was given for what had already been agreed is that what your your position is yeah and listen i mean i had committed to the chairperson of the mic action group that i would ensure there be a meeting and i went back to the chairperson of the mic action group yesterday when i had um uh full clarity and confirmation relation to the timing for that i was very keen to ensure the shared island you don't as you know the t-shirt and there's a big commitment there in terms of the northwest region to the shared island uh the t-shirt shared island you didn't had planned a trip to dairy and also a couple of shared island events for dunny gall alongside that there was always absolutely a clear commitment and the number one priority for dunny gall the number one priority for the t-shirt in relation to dunny gall as well is the mic scheme i was keen to ensure that in terms of the t-shirt coming from dairy to let a kenny that we would ensure that the meeting would be um would be uh in in any show and be given the fact that it is the center of the the challenge obviously it's right across the north of the county uh that didn't tailor ease on over the last few days then with the t-shirt shared island unit in relation to um moving a meeting that he had planned for let a kenny through the shared island unit to later in the day to ensure that the t-shirt would be able to do the meeting with the mica group in a show because i wanted to be in a show rather than in the afternoon um i wanted to do it in a show so that i got that confirmation after releasing with the t-shirt's office over the last few days in terms of the timing of it i relayed that to the chairperson of the mica action group then yesterday afternoon um following through in the commitment i given to him to ensure that there would be a meeting and assuring that there would be a meeting if the t-shirt was in the county so that that that will be taking place now in south an issue very much key part of the t-shirt's um uh uh agenda um and uh um obviously the t-shirt's support for this has been massive um great and in terms of in terms of driving this on and there was never any question about whatsoever over the fact that he was meeting with mica and if you look at his track record in relation to driving this on and the government's track record um the commitment is really really strong here i know obviously we talk regularly and myself and yourself talk about frustrations around this and the challenges in relation to bringing it on um and the speed with which we're doing that that's been happening we have been driving it on as fast as we can dealing with the many varied issues that are there yeah i guess i just wouldn't want to be any question mark that this wasn't always an essential i was disappointed when i saw the video last night um uh saying that that the mica action group had been ignored because they certainly that's certainly not the case i've been very clear that there would be a meeting and as i say i leaves with the chairperson yesterday afternoon in terms of actually confirming that time what do you think of the what do you think of uh protest protests being called now for i suppose particularly for the the the radison in lefkenny are you calling i do are you calling for that to be deferred or what no no i'm not making any call in relation to that that's always an issue for the mica action group themselves and everybody has the right to protest at any stage the the part that i was disappointed in is that uh that somehow it was that the reason for the protest was because the mica action group for the mica action mic issue was going to be ignored by the issues in the county because that's simply not accurate or not not the case um and there was never any question mark over that as i say yesterday afternoon i i followed through back to the chairperson the mic group to to give the understood and you've said that okay right you've timelineed that for us and that that involved a lot of preparation that answer that because i was very keen to make sure the t-shirt would come to me shown last time when i brought him to the county and he came in very short notice last time um we visited a home in the foe and met with the mica representatives in lefkenny yes there was criticism of that stage that he didn't get through any shown um because obviously that's the epicenter i brought him up in two or three days notice that time and managed to get two or three hours of a window when he was where he could leave the north west or the north south ministerial council meeting and come given because it was really important at that time that we'd meet he then acted after that by putting in place that committee okay and that has followed through to where we're at today and his commitment is paramount here and listen that's not taking away from the frustration that has been there and absolutely understandable given what's involved here for the whole month and listen tell me fair that that you should have your say your your just very briefly and finally i won't defer that meeting that you've already deferred any further do you support the calls as it relates to is four six five that we investigate you know what came out of that recent webinar what's been out in the public domain before that as to you know get to the the root cause of all this still confuses to whether or not foundations are which you've said twice in this program included in this scheme others saying they're not do you think what without delaying the the pro progress any further that we need to to to to investigate further you know what's causing these blocks blocks to fail absolutely Greg and it's really crucial that is four six five is reviewed and is updated fully to reflect the new scheme and it's really important that we get to the absolute bottom of what transpired here and that's part of the government's commitment and the cabinet decision that was made at the end of November as well and which will be stepped out here and crucially as well obviously the work in relation to other materials which have become clear and particularly as more testing has happened the issue around pyrite and sulfites etc the national standards authority of Ireland have been asked to update and and do further assessment that so we can get clarity around how those can be treated and as I said in a number of occasions in relation to foundations um uh they they will be tested the the assessment so far is that they have been found but if it's found not to be the case they will be included and the scheme updated to reflect that as well that's been clearly said and minister for housing Darrell Rain has made that right here too okay listen thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it minister for agriculture food and the marine charlie mcconnell logan in fairness to the man might not like what he has to say but he does make himself available to us which has been a criticism of people in the past so um credit where it's due in that regard that's his response to it as I say it's just in the interests of fairness and balance it's not to necessarily contradict outright what michael said but listen there's two views and and you've heard both of them this morning and now it's up to you to make up your mind the nine-tailed moon show with kelly's toioza port road letter kenny where you can care for your toioza with a two-year service pack from 299 euro mike denvering concert with guests philomena begley ray lineman brendan shine at the millennium forum dairy on saturday april 23rd tickets at the theater box office that's mike denvering concert at the millennium forum with philomena begley ray lineman brendan shine on 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keeping well how are you i'm fine not as busy as you are though obviously between present you show here uh the gigs are back and you're flat out things are going well for you yeah do you know that's delighted to be back on the road we've clocked up a lot a lot of miles over the last couple of months we were in uh calarney last weekend uh the weekend before that we were in england and the weekend before that we were in america doing a cruise and next weekend we're going to or this weekend we're going to mayo and uh to cavern so delighted to be back on the road yeah exactly and the fans are delighted to see you all of the the big acts back again uh we're talking to you about a event that you're organizing it's david james with the stars of country music is a hallway trip from the ninth to the twelfth of october so uh we while away something to look forward to after the summer definitely and you know this is the first time that i've ever done a trip like this on my own obviously i've been involved when highland did a few trips but this is the first time that it is david james with the stars of country music the galway trip so the ninth to the twelfth of october and we're staying in a beautiful hotel it's the four star claiton hotel so if you've ever stayed there you'll know that it is a lovely hotel claiton hotels are really nice do you know this the the general consensus that we're getting back from the people who have booked already is they just can't wait to get back out there and we've had great interest so far and a lot of people have booked already so we're delighted with that yeah and there's something about these trips too that you know everything's organized for you isn't it you don't have to worry about how much is the boss how much is the hotel you know what gigs can i go into and pick and choose this is everything's they done for you and that's why these trips prove so popular it up yeah we have everything sorted out so we've got luxury coach transport from here in donny gall and the surrounding counties we'll also have a coach or two leaving from bridge end uh you know you've got a host of stars joining us who've we've got we've got mike denver and his band we're delighted that they're joining us and michael english and his super band as well myself and the band will be there also patrick feeney shonkeen something a little bit different with shonkeen uh john hogan louise morrisey olivia douglas and the ryan turner band and as you said we've got everything sorted out so we've got three nights in the hotel dinner bed and breakfast and admission to all the shows there's afternoon entertainment included uh use of the leisure facilities there's going to be a late bar each night we're going to be going down there till about three in the morning or so and uh we're really excited about it to be honest it's all day isn't it if you like music in the afternoon uh you like your concert style stuff for you oh you like that nice buzz yeah in the early hours yeah so we've got two nights of dancing in the main function room and one night of concert and then the three nights will have the late night entertainment and we'll also have something uh some afternoon entertainment and all the afternoon stuff uh it's 389 per person that includes your three nights in a bmb and all your entertainment as you've been outlining and if you want to secure your place now because put them so well i don't have the 389 right now but i can get 100 together you know to book your seat that deposit security seat right yeah 100 euro deposit secures your seat and you can do that by email in the golly trip at gmail.com or you can do it online at davidjames music.co.uk or you can give mary duffy a call on 087 628 05 26 all right these things sell out so uh if you don't want people to miss out if people out there and there's going to be lots of them are interested now's the time to get in contact i think yeah lay the 100 quid down and then you've got something knocked over to it exactly and a big thanks to everyone who has uh booked already we're excited to have you on board and as greg mentioned we've got it all sorted luxury coach transport and you've gone from being interviewed to co-presenting now yeah i know but sure why not three nights dinner bed and breakfast it was always my dream to co-present with you and i thought you know what i've got the opportunity today i'm co-presenting the nine till noon show can't wait to go home in ten month the next hour in uh 16 minutes you will have a bit of crap all right listen it's exciting it's a big undertaking a lot of organization in something like this is yeah pulling the acts together contacting the hotels the entertainment you know to make sure that people because you know you want people to come back uh and they say wow that was amazing that's that's how it works exactly to keep everyone having the just the best time possible yeah and you know the groups that have booked already there's uh it seems to be just a general buzz of excitement and as you said we've had a lot a lot of organizing in this so contacting the hotel to get um to get the hotel secured for the four days that we're going to be there sorting out everybody's coaches uh the entertainment you know there's a lot a lot of phone calls a lot of emails but we've got there in the end and we've got it pulled together and i'm really excited about it i think it's going to be a great trip and also we've some people coming from uh the uk and scotland and wales so you know that's that's going to be a first for me to have people over uh from across the water to see one of our shows great stuff brilliant uh it's october 9th to 12th and it is in go wait which is it's not that far away i i don't want to sound like a stick in the mud here but you know it's you get to see a lovely city as well yeah when you're down there but it's you're not on a bus for hours and hours and hours and we're quite used to that journey up here in the northwest and some of the best of entertainment Mike Denver yourself Michael English Ryan Turner Olivia Douglas Louise Morrissey John uh Hogan isn't it Sean Keen and Patrick Feeney all right listen best of luck with it best of luck with everything that's going on that's a big night and tuesday isn't it the yeah the hot country award about two or three times yeah everything that's going on yeah the hot country awards are up this tuesday delighted to be part of that and fingers crossed we might come back down uh to dunningall within a ward of some sort anyway yeah exactly well they have to give you something although there's not many artists at it every you know everyone's not a winner but it's good it's good and why not you uh David you're doing an awful lot and entertaining an awful lot of people listen thanks for the best of luck with with the trip um you can book online davidjames music.co.uk all right listen thanks very much thanks greek take care of yourself and you're back 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weather will follow for later in the afternoon frost here in the northwest and in the evening with a few showers of rain or hail temperatures just five to eight degrees and cold and frosty overnight with mostly clear skies there'll be a few wintery showers too around on high ground temperatures overnight tonight minus three to zero so a big change in the weather your lawns are in for a shock if you're short if you're lucky enough to have one right okay so we know the store with piano ferries don't we they unceremoniously sacked around 800 of their workers a lot of them via video via resume call they hired a load of agency workers obviously you know that's that kicked up a stink so what did they do they send in the health and safety two of their ferries now are locked down effectively because they aren't being deemed fit to go to water and there's a lot of politics going on here a lot of back and forwards between the the the states between the likes of the the British government of course their agents the ferry operators who's caught in the middle who's really getting the hit well it's the workers of course but also customers amongst them john john good morning to you morning rig right so you have a booking with pee and no from lauren to caron ryan isn't it right it's for tuesday next tuesday do you know if it's going ahead or not that's the problem rig i don't know i'm trying to contact them but i sent them an email yesterday and they told me that that was not a minute thing you know that just says that they have contact with me for 28 days but that's not used to you you need contact with at the very least within a couple of days yeah so i google someone this morning there and it come up and it says that lauren to caron ryan are not running the next few days that for to uh shake alternative uh rich so i don't know what to do is it i i'm not good in the computer and my daughter normally does it but she works here in the day you think so you're hamstrong until she's available that's sorry well that's what we have them for they have to be of some use down the line there uh john but that'd be that being said you know you you want to know what the story is um also you've you've paid them presumably yeah so they've got your money in my money yeah that's the problem uh yeah exactly so you don't want to have two bookings out there even if you're lucky enough to get another sailing on the tuesday you want to make sure you're going to get can you can you cancel it and and get a refund but if you're only getting an automated response where does that leave you yeah that's the problem you see because i've just taken there is a ferry going from belpastic car in ryan and tuesday morning but do i pay for that or what i you know i don't know what to do i could have i have a combination but don't think when they say yeah my sense would be uh john um if you can book it because i can't see i can't see p and o getting all the problems they have sorted between now and next juicy i could be wrong but you can't be sitting there on monday in the same position as you are today either can you i know that's the problem you see but will i get my money back or what's that's what we'll do uh what we'll do is we'll put a call out because you know with our connection with scotland and and what have you there's lots of people hopefully that will have been through this and know the answer to it so did you have a booking out there with p and o uh and obviously you don't want to roll the dice and whether or not it's going to sail so maybe you booked something else did you get a refund uh to help john out here so he knows what the story is because you can't none of us can afford to be laying out for two trips on the hope of getting a refund on one john all right okay well listen we'll see if our listeners can help they normally do with some advice uh i would say a lot of people might be thinking about booking that other route and you don't want to lose out on that either because that disturbs the trip and your accommodation you just want to have it sorted so you can set your mind to enjoying your trip over there yeah that's right yeah okay well listen we'll uh if we get any information we'll pass it on to you obviously p and o are up to the ears so we will send an email to them whether we're not we get a response i don't know but i think the key thing here is at this point john it's the refund isn't it that's really what yeah that's right because you never know what even if he says not it's going ahead in tuesday the way things are going you don't know if that could change on the monday evening uh so if i were you and if you could i'd get booked on on the other service and then we'll try and find out what the crack is in terms of getting your money back from p and o they're still they're not in liquidation they're still an operating company so hopefully you should get your money back but let us see if any other listeners have had any success and how they did it john and we'll pass it on to you and actually you and your daughter can sort it out this evening maybe thanks very much all right john listen and enjoy i'm sure you'll get over there enjoy your trip i'm sure it'll be hopefully it's a pleasure trip and and nothing yeah i don't know is it good man we'll have one for me will you thank you all right take care we'll check into that but it's over to you please our wonderful listeners are any of you in a similar situation to john particularly if you've got a resolution to it ideally and we can help him in that regard uh call us as the irish government are using donations from irish people and irish taxpayers money to help you crane in the understanding they'll get contracts to rebuild ukraine capitalism is merciless and ruthless that's coming in from patrick indon low maybe i don't know i i my mind doesn't get can't be that analytical at this point the way i look at it is is as much as we can try and put pressure on russia to stop what they're doing let ukranians live where they want to live in their own homeland and you know what i'm sure arland will do quite well in helping rebuild ukraine as well all i mean that's the way it works that's the awful situation that's the cycle of it isn't you know some countries make money supplying the bombs and the weapons and from war and then other countries will make money during the rebuilding process that is that's us that's what we are humans uh sadly hello great you know how the public can assist the ukraine people who are moving into towns here in donagol i've had lots of questions like this i know people with homes uh in uh in rural areas um and they don't know who to contact uh they're prepared to even you know if they do air b&b they're prepared to not do that this summer and off of their homes but obviously they don't want to be out of out of pocket you know i don't know uh but it's very hard to get answers at the moment it seems to me they want to put them in towns near schools in hotels and they're going to build two big centers for them in quark and dublin to house them in tents uh large tents i don't know beyond that it's hard to get information hi greg listening from dublin will the mandatory sick days be pro rata ie 10 days for a full-time employee for example but less accordingly for a part-time employee i would imagine so unfortunately i don't have the knowledge to have asked that question let's see if jones can help her jean can help john though uh right jean how are you getting on not too bad right okay so maybe you heard john there he's booked for next tuesday your daughter was booked on saturday that's not running uh she managed to get an alternative booking do you know what the story is jean at this point as it relates to the money peonohave of hers she she booked for the saturday she was booked to go back on the saturday and she got she realized that um the sailing wasn't going and they contacted her and told her to reboot with another company which she did she booked with stena and sailed on the saturday morning and on the saturday morning she got a text from peonoh asking for her bank details so that they could refund the money and she gave them the bank details and within two days the money was in that account okay so maybe we could presume then that once the ferry doesn't sail that's when they start dealing with the refund so john might get an email or contact from them on the tuesday of his sailing yeah it should get an email either the monday or the tuesday probably the monday yeah to give him time to to rebook right okay okay that's good advice all right then that's your experience your daughter's experience brilliant stuff uh was it last saturday or next saturday it was last saturday okay brilliant jean listen thanks for that that's that's reassuring take care of yourself thanks for listening thanks for calling in hopefully that's uh a bit of good advice for john there the night till 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greg just warn people that they're absolutely absolutely sure it's pno that are contacting them before they hand over the details scammers could jump all over that one yes great advice actually by the way because they might look for bank details to offer that refund okay thanks for that right our wellness wednesday now is focusing on motor neuron disease and we have two people who are joining us to discuss this firstly kathy kallahan kathy good morning to you thanks very much for joining us hi greg how are you i'm good and how are you hi good i good stuff emma dylan always also joins us now hi emma how are you keeping okay very very good indeed okay right um we'll start with you emma if you don't mind because your husband dilla had motor neuron didler sorry i beg your pardon had motor neuron disease he was in studio with us actually to discuss his diagnosis his condition he was first diagnosed in early 2019 isn't that correct emma he was the second january 2019 and we got the diagnosis um at that time um it was really just his legs that were affected and quickly progressed on to his arms um but um it was relatively well all through the summer up until about august we started to notice differences in his breathing and all just sort of went downhill from there uh and very very quickly an awful shock to you because didler obviously you're very active you know very well known very well loved as well too uh it's just you wouldn't expect it it just was a diagnosis out of the blue it was he had been having problems with his leg from like late 2018 we put it down to like an injury from his roman um because he did so much roman um so what did it just came like a bullet out of the blue test then um i just not expected definitely not expect us and and because things moved so quickly um you didn't really get to engage much with the motor neuron disease association which of course will benefit from from all the fundraising this weekend because things just happened so so quickly they did um you're right we really didn't get an awful lot from the charity because of that fact he didn't need an awful lot of equipment and stuff at home apart from his wheelchair and that and then uh it was while he went down to the hospital and the hospice that everything went downhill so um the charity weren't able to help us but i know they're so good to so many other families that need it yeah and of course what we've seen since charlie bird's appearance on the lake lake show was a huge all outpouring of support of sympathy and of course motivating people to take part in these walks you as a family enjoyed the same level of support from your community it was really quite remarkable wasn't it um you know how people rallied behind you and wanted to just do everything that they could it was totally unbelievable you know we got that diagnosis in you you're just your whole world's just upside down and then like you see this great community that you love on and people couldn't do enough for us that for me was really really unexpected um and for him i know like it was amazing all the fundraisers the different events thanks to he was able to go right it was amazing people are just so so good what's the the last we've all been like for you um i wondered you know um because obviously it's it's very recent for you and i presume you're still very much dealing with with the loss and the grief uh and then we have someone with the same condition speaking publicly uh so it's obviously it's a reminder for you but are you pleased that there's more awareness it must just be a big bag of different emotions for you that's very mixed emotions it did take me a while to watch the the charlie bird interview um who i had recorded it took me a while to go back to watch it but um i think it's amazing what he's done because it just basically the whole country is now talking about mnd and i think that's so important um to get that message across about how you know how awful of a disease that it actually is but at the same time and it just brings so many memories back to me and to the gears um it's it's very mixed emotions but i it's just amazing what he's doing and you just want to do anything you can't to support him and to help anybody that you can yeah for sure no doubt about that um and we're gonna talk about the walk that you're involved in so stay with us for that because i mentioned we said hello to uh kathy callahan uh yours is a similar story in that it is a family member dealing with motor neuron disease but it was your mom you've been for mom winnie that was affected by this awful disease kathy yeah um mom got mom started back in end of october star november 2016 she um she had a she started lumping like it was her left start at lumping and you know she was getting seen she's down in the bag heli and thought it was like planters thought herself along them lines like you weren't sure like um we never thought anything you know we didn't think it was bashed just to lumping um but then it just progressively it got worse and um then it was it did get that bad now that she was going into hospital and she may get remitted for her night and then she came out again and she happened a few times but then in the start of march 2017 she was admitted for two weeks and she at the time i didn't know what was going on like we didn't think you know we just weren't aware of it and then um she went down to gallway to get the test remember saying go down the ambulance down for 20 months and back up again and it was that following week wednesday it was wednesday 22nd of march she got the news in her dad got the news in that uh she had motor neurons and i'm sure the most one of the most difficult conversations they ever uh had was explaining it to you kathy and and you know it's such a devastating diagnosis how do you tell your daughter or your children such news it must have been awful awful for them yeah because i remember coming back from school it was me and my two boys and my little sister um i remember coming back from school and like it's just clear as day in my head and their mom was just like something something to tell you um got the results back and it's like it's what and we we didn't know what it was we were totally we never heard of anybody ever having it before and we were as younger as well like we were about the weeks by 13 we were 16 and um we just weren't aware but we knew it was bad we just involved crying and you know a lot we shouldn't have locked it up and stuff but i was just staying and forgetting then from then on like mom just started to go down home uh really really quick now she just her left leg then her right leg her left arm then her right arm you know and uh it just it went so quick and this is like the breathing difficulties um the only thing though that just about two weeks before mom's passing um that was when her voice started to go which we're so grateful for in a way because anybody that knew mommy always said you'd always hear before you see her she was so loud and she had this big infectious laugh and you know for that it was good that we still had her there you know we could talk to her and everything so it was so so nice in that way but it was um it was very profound just yeah. Were you told at the time Kathy how quick it might be because you know for some people it things progress incredibly quickly and for others it it can be prolonged were they able to give you an indication as to how long you had left with your mom? They told like that like no it would be one to two years um we were told roughly but it was nearly it was six months exactly nearly from diagnosis 22nd march and she passed away on 24th September so it was six months like you look it up and you know people they passed within the year other people kill of 20 years you know it's us it's individual to everybody you know you can never look at one person's story with it and compared to someone else's because everybody's so different like there's something to everybody it's completely different but yeah we were told roughly one to two years but we we had this so it's it must be so tough talking to you yeah I mean it's it's some people lose their their moms or dads and they never get an opportunity to talk and then you know use obviously had an opportunity to talk about things and sometimes you wonder which is better and that sounds like an absolutely awful thing to say if you know what I mean but figuring out how to talk about someone dying but also living in the moment for that period of time and especially if your mom was able to speak to you so close to her and it's it must have just been so tough for your for your Kathy and the rest of your family or maybe it was a blessing it just depends on how it was for you I suppose yeah it was you know like like as Emma knows like it is the most cruelest disease like that happened to anybody it is so cruel and watching like someone you love going through it as you would never wash it upon anybody it is so cruel but um yeah I suppose like we had the six months but like at the same time at least mommy wasn't suffering for a number of years you know it was if you wouldn't want to look at her suffer for that work she was so she was so independent and throughout all she was so so strong because um mom cares my other sister Louise she um she's confined to venture she's fine about that and she just was so strong for Louise and for all of us to um just she because she just wanted not for us to worry you know she's just she was so selfless selfless that way sorry that she's always thinking about some everybody else you know she just she was so so strong so strong for all of us you know it really helped us in a way but um what a woman uh what a woman with what she's going through and she was able to I mean she stands uh all our moms are brilliant her but she stands she stands particularly brilliant and I've no doubt Kathy that she's locking down on these days full of pride and I don't mean that patronizing but uh she'll be really really proud of how well you're speaking and the beautiful tribute to your mom I think it's absolutely amazing what you're doing thank you Emma um again it's that time I suppose between diagnoses and and and watching your loved one your your your soulmate changing and and having to deal themselves with what they're going through that's the awful thing about this disease isn't it uh Emma it is it really is and there is very a lot you can do to help them like they're losing their independence more and more every day and you're they're having to depend on you and like Paul was so active so able um and just overnight then not able to do anything for himself and that I know was very hard for him um but he never complained like it it was what it was he just got on with it um but it is it's very hard and it's very hard for me children like um my my youngest weekend was only a year and a half at the time that's very hard for them to understand what's happening around them yeah and that's now on you too as well um going forward to to sort of obviously um make sure that you know exactly who uh their dad was and is but also looking after yourself and looking after them and everything else it's you know it's ongoing for you too uh Emma it does it definitely is they're the reason for everything now they're the reason to get us up in the morning and um and just to make them proud of of the way that they're turning out because they're they're great years and they're there was kept me motivated since Kathy I'll ask you just about this national conversation that's going now thanks to to uh Charlie Byrd and him you know using uh the platform he has through his difficult times to talk about it has it helped you in that maybe you know your immediate family and friends will understand um you know um what happened to your mom Winnie is it helping you that maybe everyone understands what you went through and what this disease is and and and maybe you know reinvigorate your efforts to try and come up with better treatments or earlier diagnoses or whatever it might be like is this conversation that's happening nationally helping you oh 100% thank um like the time that may pass I don't think a lot of people even not even ourselves before in most diagnosis we didn't even know what modern urines was and a lot of people don't install don't know but like the awareness attorney byrd has brought to us like it's unbelievable because I remember the time that like mommy uh was diagnosed and like the Irish modern urine disease association they did help us there is amazing earth a nurse sorry ethnic college she got everything that we mommy possibly needed she was amazing but she was only one of four nurses covering the whole of Ireland and like there's there is a lot of people modern urines now and it's obviously you hear more about it now I think that it's just that's not enough to cover the whole nation like um but uh I think to me there was two in Donegal I would have sort of wondered is that enough uh you know what I mean because that's coming from a place of ignorance but when you talk about four covering the whole country that clearly is not enough and I suppose that's what we're doing here yeah we're trying to raise money for the modern urine association and hopefully the hsc whatever role they have they will step in as well to try and increase that because that is a huge workload and and even geographically to cover that amount of space yeah I think there may be more now but at that time there was only four but even to the neurologist Dr Murphy and Saigo like he was saying there was I can't really remember the name of the tablet there was only one tablet and that tablet was being used for the past 20 years there was no update in research or like as in luck research but there was nothing update it you know there was no more medication in use in the same medication the past 20 years and there's I mean there's bound to be something there's so many advances of yeah we're not advancing with what this okay Emma can you talk to us about the walk or climb that you're being involved in and if people in your local community want to support there is a I donate as well by the way but can you talk to me what the plan is for Saturday Emma sure when we were deciding what we were going to do I sort of wanted to keep it as local as possible to make it as accessible for everyone as I could so I decided to go with going in a failure for two reasons just so it was local and as well it was a place that Paul really loved up there so it just worked out well for me so what we're doing is we're having people park in Newton Village and there are shuttle buses running people down to the starting point which is just down a part so when they arrive there then they can just make their way and start the walk make their way up to green and we'll have tea and whatever up the top for everyone then and again the bus will run to bring people back to their cars at the end nice okay so it's all really well organized the fee is 10 euro for adults and children are free they can be paid directly to the I don't know page there's a link I think you might check out Emma Dylan's Facebook but the link I'll share this on my Facebook as well Emma Dylan's fundraiser fundraising but we'll share the link because it's a massive URL what Saturday going to be like Emma do you think because it's people coming together to for a brilliant cause to be part of something really big locally and nationally it's also going to be another opportunity to remember Didler I'm sure there'll be people there exchanging stories and conversations and memories you will be there obviously we've talked about the loss but also there's a I suppose there's a joy in people coming together what do you think the day will it will hold I think it'll be it will be a very special day I think as you say a lot of people coming together people that we won't have seen for such a long time between lockdowns and everything else and there's a lot of stories about him but I just know that he would be so happy to see all these people coming together for him and also for the MND association I know he would be really really happy with that yeah I think taking part in a way we'll be doing it in his name so the euros that are donating it's in remembrance of Didler as well and I think that's a beautiful honor to him it is it is and it means so much to me and to the three years it's unbelievable that's great well listen fair play and thanks for joining us and keep strong and keep moving forward and we thank you so much for speaking to us thank you so much take care of yourself it's really nice to have you on the program and Kathy talked to me about the walk that you're always a climb or a walk that you're taking part in we're doing a walk we're doing it down at the Crossroads Kelly Gordon that's that's where mum grew up in like or that's where we all live now so we're just keeping it local as well and also making it accessible to everybody because not everybody can find mountains so we're just keeping it local now so it's starting at the Crossroads Prukel Prukel hall and I'd have to on Saturday and it's it's actually a loop so we call the back of the wall but it's up past the right queues pitch out mind hall and then across Drumford Gris and down to Arneganna road and it leads you back then into the Prukel hall at the cross so and I like this one it's just under 5k yeah there's a bike held though to be fair but it's all doing a lot and in terms of donations what's the facebook page Kathy um it's called a walk with oney um if you start that up uh there's more information and stuff on there and the donation page is also on there so um we're just donations on the day um are into the donation page so and again we talked about you talked about Winnie and her involvement with the likes of the Donegal branch of the Spina and Hydrocephalus organization and I know all her colleagues really really miss her very much because they're messaging in and as you said she's a big personality you'd hear before you see her and again just like again just like did learn people will be taking part in this maybe a nice opportunity to remember your mom and all the good times and to raise money for this great cause in her name and let's do something about full nurses for an entire country Kathy yeah that's exactly it okay okay again without sounding patronizing you've done absolutely fantastic and made your mommy really really proud and we appreciate your time this morning thank you so much great thank you take care of yourself that's uh Kathy there all right bye bye Kathy thank you bye bye thank you very much indeed right okay Greg can you get MND at any age you know this and maybe it's an opportunity for us to talk about that side of it I don't know enough to say one way or other but if there are questions like that it's I'll get a professional Winnie was such a lovely lady so colorful in every way we all miss her at the Donegal branch of the Spina and Hydrocephalus well done Kathy your mommy would be so so proud Greg both ladies have mentioned that the legs were first symptoms they noticed in the loved ones would it be okay to ask them if they could elaborate on what that means what it means by that um I yes and as I say maybe it's something we can go back and talk about again and maybe you're having an issue with your leg and it might worry you see your GP it's like a lot of things it's not often it is what we fear it might be but the best way to get that sorted is to just go and get it checked out it's a limp is is how they were describing it in one leg then it progressed to the other okay listen um I think it's going to be a wonderful weekend for all of you taking part in these walks and climbs and you've heard right there um and as as Emma said they they didn't have enough time with Diddler for him to benefit from the services of the Donegal sorry the molten urine disease association but you heard then from Kathy and how it benefited their family a beautiful not wonderful no sorry coming in and assisting them but only four of them across the country according to Kathy and that's what we're all doing for at the weekend and of course as well uh money being raised for Pietta okay that was Wellness Wednesday we'll be back with more on the Nine Till Noon Show after these messages the Nine 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story earlier in the week wasn't it very much greg zinc works at telecoms and financial services research and development company has announced the establishment of a software engineering hub and co-lab facility on letter kenny at campus creating 50 new jobs over the next 18 months zinc works was founded in 2018 and currently employs 180 people at his head office in atlone the company's focus is primarily in research and development and telecommunications particularly on 5g so the project is supported being supported by the irish government through eda irland yeah i still don't really know what they do but that's on me it's not on them you know i tried three times to get the owner to sort of explain what they did and i kind of get it but um obviously it's in research and development in in really uh upper end technology radio a couple of uh housing reports came out which showed that don't go house prices are only going one way at the moment and that's upward gear that's correct greg the latest daft dot it daft dot a sales report shows house prices don't go on the first three months of 2022 were 22 percent higher than a year previously compared to a raise of three percent seen a year ago so the average price of a home is now 180 a thousand euro that's 65 percent above its lowest point which is very notable so according to irland's largest probably website the average listed price nationwide in the first quarter of 2022 was 299 000 euro that's up 8.4 percent on the same period in 2021 and just 19 percent below the sell the tiger peak and norway as well just 10 000 homes were listed for sale in march yeah and what i thought interesting too about that is whilst the average house price is 188 000 that's all houses there a couple of years ago they were asking prices right and it didn't really give a a firm indication because you know people might take 178 for their 188 average price but actually the houses are going above yeah their list price in some cases as well they're going the north the north side very much of the asking price and the gay prices very much more it's a very different market to what were used to good news for laura boner yeah greencastle's laura boner is one of 14 women who has been shortlisted as the entrepreneur of the year and this year's image pwc business women of the year awards the founder and ceo of muffler company she established the premium drinks brand in 2018 with her business partner tom russell all right okay good news for the city of darry airport too yeah the city of darry airport has been allocated three million pounds by the department of infrastructure in conjunction with the department of finance towards its running costs so naturally the funding has been welcomed across all political parties and this allocation is being described as a timely boost to secure the airport's future and help to facilitate further growth yeah and that's what it needs it needs further growth to be somewhat more self-sustainable and get back to where it used to be at it's tough it's tough yeah sometimes these airports get caught up in the politics of ryan air as much as anything else but the funding is good but we want to get it back to a to somewhere close to or ahead of where it used to be here and a difficult two years in the aviation sectors right so hopefully that's the start of a getting okay so we're not going to be calling the lyt lyt anymore i don't think are we or are we having a clue uh do we probably will for a while but uh officially it's there are changes of foot um letter kenny institute we still call the road past our house the new road has been there yeah there are things in the town we're calling them way back decades ago that's a letter kenny yeah okay thanks greek letter kenny institute of technology i think that town is if we all supposed to know which town it is well officially become part of atlantic technological university from friday april the first that's along with gmi t and it's lego the third level college is curtly serb really gets fiftieth anniversary and a record five thousand students are enrolled at lyt for the current school year so we have paul hannigan on before christmas yeah gregg and i'm just doing a wee bit of research for come on this morning but he told me um that's been renamed i was originally called that i came to regional technology college renium that i came here in 1998 and it was worth uh the latest data 100 million euro annually to local economy that's absolutely huge huge especially with the its interaction with local businesses and what have you and and who's to say where it's going to go with with university status like it's exciting times in the world of of education and often here and you know we don't see you know that it's not tangible if i build a house you can see the house house you know what i mean but when we see a development in al-wati it's hard to say right that's what we've done now look at the result uh do you know and obviously people have done research if you as you were able to outline there but i think it's going to be really really good for the for the students and for the region as well and i suppose it really puts on the focus how important the college has been for both letter kenny and the northwest in terms of innovation enterprise business employment and and and more recent years i suppose the co-lab and we had a story earlier on in relation to the co-lab that's the full capacity now as well so you know good times at the moment yeah for sure right okay let's uh let's review the news thanks very much for that kiran as always um now let's talk about this week's podcast yes great on this week's business matters i'm joined by brendan bradis o'Donnell owner of the glinty's based broadcasting and media company bradis video productions after leaving glinty's comprehensive school brendan worked in the local mcdevott factory before embarking on a film production course in trilly in 1996 and 2000 he set up his own company and since then he has become a well-known figure at sporting venues behind the camera throughout the country as a documentary filmmaker his work has taken him to europe and the united states where he is also enjoying building up a client base in the corporate sector so during our conversation bradis talked about the people that had helped and supported him and getting up getting his business up and running 22 years ago but my father was a huge you know he's seen he always said always work at what you love he's just trying always do the job that you love and i am blessed to say that i do that i wouldn't even call it a job i don't like i get excited about doing a job no matter what it is it may be tedious at times and you may have to wait around and all that like but i love it and i have to thank my father for that and my mother and of course michael as well too like you know and as a pre mentioned earlier on you know there was another uh france is born but also a guy in danie boil in the town you know who used to be chairman of our g a club and that danie was a was a good help to me as well in terms of encouragement and certain things too you know you mentioned uh your first photograph taken as a four or five-year-old do you can you recall your first video or your first film that you shot it was the harvest fair that was it i've done a few wee things around the house just when you get the camera you were able to film me mother and my father and and some of the brothers and sisters i would say probably after the limit a recording a recording thing here karen but um that would be not the first kind of main thing i'd done was and i kind of got it for the harvest fair and i got that and just from going back to the glantis video club and you know what karen it's interesting to hear how people uh get into what they love and then maybe make a decision in the life and say do you know what this is something i'm passionate about i'm gonna pursue it remarkable to keep it going for a business going for 22 years and i imagine over the course of that time too uh you have to keep up with innovation and and new technologies and you know i don't know how long hd's been around or streaming or whatever it might be or how you upload video and how you edit it but you know it's an exciting field it's it you know it's constantly innovating yeah as you say uh braz he found a job that he loves he talked about his first photograph that he took as a four or five-year-old you mentioned the equipment and that's one of the things we talked about actually was the change in equipment and how much can be done and how much technology has changed that there's not big bags of equipment being taken around as much and there's so much can be done with much smaller and much more modified equipment great yeah indeed it's going to be a fascinating interview and you can hear it all that full interview with brendan bradisle donnell it's available now on our website that's highland radio dot com you can see it in the on-demand section by the way it's there alongside you know parts of this program the deal debate the score our documentary series it's all there in the on-demand section of our website highland radio dot com you can also listen to it on spotify and itunes and if you want to listen to the show as part of our scheduled program here sundays today isn't it kieran yeah sunday even greg after six clock news and if anyone wants to get in touch with you on the program how do they go about doing so yeah just drop an email please buzzersmatters at highlandradio.com kieran thank you very much as always i really appreciate it and look forward to seeing you next wednesday and again just to remind you that previous editions of that show are available for you to listen back on again kieran thank you very much indeed okay now amary emailed us off the back of our chat with john he's due to travel to scotland via ferry with p&o next july this call it sorry i know it's amary via email donnell goll travel advised yesterday that the Scottish route will not be sailing until at least in and including the fourth of april contact donnell goll travel in england they're absolutely amazing to do we good luck to your traveler that comes in from amary thank you very much indeed call it was in the breast clinic in letter kenny and it was the first time in a quarter of a century that she got the results on the day dr riley was in the their short term is making a big difference historically you'd have to wait six weeks for your results to be issued to the doctor and the doctor to call you we need a full-time radiographer who can provide this service all the time everyone working there at the moment deserves a random applause for their hard work yesterday remarkable to get your results on the day if you're asked to come in for training on your day off are you entitled to get paid for that day well listened common sense would sort of suggest yes unless it's in your contract greg can you please mention that there is a free webinar with psychotherapist and parent alienation expert karen woodall it's today at six p.m tickets are available three at alienated.ie this will be very relevant to anyone who's interested in the public consultation about parental alienation that the government will be undertaking at the end of 2022 i call it says pretty soon no one in arland will need to work at all 10 bank holidays 10 sick days four week holidays throw the covid excuse into the mix and no time to work race to the bottom in certain recession i think that we work very hard in this country most of us work very hard and i think it's only fair that we're treated fairly um if you're sick you know you're entitled to some pay from your employer if you are sick i would have thought i don't think really workers have it handy i know anyone around me or in my life they work very very very hard very hard and almost feel guilty sometimes when you chat to people about for taking time off it's been revealed yesterday says the texture that the hsc clicked five million euro from a hospital car parks annually where is that money going and why is it not being used to open no more ICU beds or pay nurses better wages well it's certainly not enough to do that okay some of it's used to maintain the car parks because it's private companies that run them and develop car parking facilities and the rest is used by the hospital in whatever way i get where you're coming from but look five million euro is is not it'll open up maybe four beds nationally i don't know which is not insignificant but it's nowhere near where we need to be hi greg just wondering if any listeners experience trouble with vodafone coverage of spoken to a helpline call center in egypt called numerous times to no avail vodafone shop no help either said it will depend on the number of complaints they receive before action is taken tell us what kind of problem you're having and where you are and uh we maybe we can rally up a few uh this caller says the problem with ukrainian refugees is that they will get our benefits and not want to go home arland is a benefit state and us working class are on our knees can't take any more the government are completely out of touch this is what i'll say to that is you know i don't know if you've ever worked away from home but i have i worked over um i worked over in london for a while and it wasn't incredibly pleasant i know how people can be treated uh just because you're from arland the stereotypes that are put on us um and i went over there really recently we went away to other countries in our hundreds of thousands and we worked really really hard and we had to put up with really bad treatment by sometimes by the nations that we went to yet we contributed so much and to some extent that's still actually ongoing now uh we were accused of being this that and the other when often what we were is mostly what we were is really really hard workers that contributed a lot didn't ask for much in return um and uh you know built a lot of these countries that we have this history now for us for someone out there i find it really i kind of really quite upset naturally that someone would paint an entire nation as one type of person and and believe that that entire nation is coming over here to sponge you know i don't know where or how that comes to pass how people think like that i don't understand it or what drives it or in what place they are but we've been there we've been the people maybe not uh in some cases fleeing conflict that's not like that's not uh a lot of people would have left this country because of the conflict that was on this island for one reason or another you know you could call them refugees went over worked very hard treated badly in some cases refused accommodation in other cases we know our history you know why would we infact it on other people why would we judge an entire nation uh 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northeast breezes okay now the minister for education norma foley has announced her ambitious as she describes plans for a reimagined senior cycle of education for post primary students equity and excellence for all where the student is at the center of the senior cycle experience the three tenants of senior cycle reform are into empower students to meet the challenges of the 21st century enrich the student experience and build on what's going what's strong in our current system and embed well-being and reduce student stress levels and therefore parents and guardians stress levels i'd imagine a former education minister of course comes in the shape of deputy joey mickey joins us now good morning to you joe thanks for taking the call no talk good morning right so i mean obviously it's heavily worded there and i can understand that but it doesn't make a great deal of sense to me so i'm going to rely on you to explain what you view as the key changes that we're going to see in our education system for these for this cohort going forward well i suppose in the first instance the ford there'll be 40 continuous assessment uh over fifth and sixth year and then for paper one in both irish and um and english there's going to be an exam in fifth year so basically the leaving leaving said starts proper and in fifth year whether's whether's whether's actually going to be an exam and both those subjects at the end of the year the big the big thing here is is to follow through on what's been happening over the last two years in terms of continuous assessment um the student really really is at the heart of this decision because there has been a long call and a strong recognition that there's been a high stress factor involved at the very end so so look you know and i know there's there's going to be a need for a consultation now with what the teachers and those conversations will now start to be stir at the the conferences of the tui and the asti so we'll we'll need to hear the voice of the teacher and and how this works out so that's a good question because in terms of continuous assessment 40 of exam marks and all subjects will be uh will be attributed to continuing assessment like is that uh regular exams or is that the opinion of teachers well look that that's a detail that needs to be worked out but if you look at continuous assessment that that's already been happening within um history leaving said history this project worked as a percentage for that leaving said oral for irish is 50 percent and you also have continuous assessment of new subjects with computer computer science and p so there is there is a you know what you know there's benchmarks in those areas though i mean what we want to avoid though is the fact that this comes down to interpretation don't we in other words whether or not a a school particularly wants their their their students to excel because it looks good for them or you know dependent on uh you know just a mood of a teacher what she likes to see you know we hear football pundits or boxing pundits they like attacking over defense or vice versa you know so how do we ensure and pardon me if the question's ignorant how do we ensure that you know personality or you know ambition does not influence it dependent on your teacher which school you're in yeah like there has to be a standard and and that's why the state examination commission will be will be really involved in this because they that's where the standard will be measured um teachers were always afraid even when the continuous assessment came in two years ago they were afraid um of that measurement and you know not been put into a corner themselves and in relation to that so that there will have to be uh detail worked out to ensure that that all students in all schools are protected from a an equality point of view and as you say personalities are brought into it and i'm not in any way questioning schools or teachers but you know that that could be could be the fear whether it's justified or not um you know we had a real opportunity maybe to and there's been calls for forever to look at the system look at not just fifth and sixth year maybe the entire secondary uh secondary part of of a person's education if we are going to to make some changes do you believe these go far enough uh this is what Norma Foley thinks but what does uh Joe McHugh think well look i think it's a good first step i do believe we we can go further but sometimes we have to you know make incremental steps before we before we go further um but one thing i'm picking up from a lot of principles throughout the the country from different you know feedback from the last two years there is there was a change in the relationship in in the leaving cert classes where um where maybe the the teacher the top down uh relationship between teacher at the top and the students at the bottom that that has been equalized because students obviously rely on on the on the teacher in terms of the continuous assessment so there has been a development and the maturity of the relationship so i think it's important that we we continue to hold that as well um and that the teachers do do you know build on the on the experiences the rich experiences that they've had in the last two years so the their voices wouldn't be critical as we tried it and the student voice too because you talked about and and you know the absence of you're not saying doesn't mean it's absent but you talked about the the consulting with teachers i think more so than ever now students have a voice that they've always had a voice but they have a voice on their education and the direction of it presumably the minister will engage with students not to do precisely what they say but certainly to take on board what they feel and and craft this in a way that everyone feels like they've got a win yeah and look and there is a formal mechanism for that the students have a place at the table where the stakeholders meet data at a second secondary level so that that that voice will have will have to be listened to very attentively and and also we have to look at what's happening within the junior side there is a debate out there as to you know the the changes and how that is impacted in terms of of education so there's going to be a review completed on that and that should be due shortly and what what do you think needs to be done there because it feels very separate you know especially with transition year in there that you have the first three years then the the junior cert or as you might remember joe the inter cert uh then then you have the and me then you have of course you know transition year then then the big push on in fifth and sixth when you talk about how that might change or reform are we talking about maybe something more continuous throughout the the the six years someone might be in secondary school yeah i think look there is some people would argue argue that the junior cycle is a is a dumbing down of the of the old system but the old system had its false as well so it's it's how to how to prepare those students now that will be going on to leaving sir first year in 2024 who will be doing two papers in first year that that they're ready for it and they put for that yeah and 10 study of the leaving sir and i think we i think that review is going to point to that continuity and i do think it's important where transition year sits in there as well because you know some people might choose not to do it some might and i don't know uh but anyway i'm sure all that's going to be looked at drama film and theater studies that's going to be an actual subject yeah drama film and theater studies and there's going to be a subject on sustainable development and climate change and these are the issues that that the young people globally obviously locally within the school system and in our own country that have been pushing these agenda items and and the way the world of business is moving and even what's happening in ukraine at the moment and what's happening in terms of energy dependence that that there's going to be a massive fast-tracking to sustainable energy form so we we need this young young generation leading leading from the front and they're they're the people that's going to be changing change in the world we live in joe thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it greatly that's the former minister for education deputy joe mcquee there i just want to mention before i go that you still have an opportunity by the way to get your ticket to win the holiday of a lifetime it could be one single holiday it could be numerous holidays it's a 10 000 year travel voucher for you now you can go back and forwards fleeting all over the place many times or you could book that trip of a lifetime maybe it is to take the young ones to where's that place that santa lives the north pole or it could be florida or paris or whatever it is you'll 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