 About the code was it a nice drive to work was foggy foggy There was some cars that didn't have the lights on we've got a few texts saying yeah for Pete's sake Where did where did that term come for Pete's sake? I don't know just in case it's bad Maybe I maybe not the thing with the lights. It's so important like To have your lights on in the morning. Yeah, but they not say as well Do you know it's good to have your dips on during the day as well? Is that one in some country? I think in some of the Nordic countries there's a week on all the time See a lot of the more modern cars and they're not really you know the last five six seven years They have the lights are auto, but I know people who have the auto lights and they still don't use them Yeah, it's a mental like it's gonna get foggy or a mess to your in the morning So it's just that period between darkness and light as well, even if there's no fog Yeah, but you just need the lights on sure do all right. Have a good show now. Can we are you make sure you switch your lights on all right? You know Good luck safe home. All right, then that's Lee Gooch. It's the Michael noon show. Let's get a news update and say good morning, Mikaela Clark Thanks, great. Good morning. The construction industry Federation says building levies to fund the micro redress scheme should be aimed at manufacturers Cabinet ministers are due to discuss changes to propose 10% levy on concrete announced in budget 2023 Finance Minister Pascal Donahue has reiterated this morning that it will be going ahead despite pressure from backbenchers To change or scrap it director general of the construction industry Federation Tom Parlin says manufacturers should be paying the levy The issue in Dunigal with Micah was defective concrete blocks. Nobody has ever challenged that it was defective concrete blocks There were this that they were supplied to the house builder or the industry and a lot of the houses in Dunigal were self-bills So it's the wrong target. It's not the industry. It was the manufacturing and the supply side and they should be targeted The juniors third results are to be issued on Wednesday, November the 23rd The state examinations commission has confirmed that this year's results that will be available in schools on the 23rd of November Candidates can also access their results online from 4 p.m. On that date the delay is being blamed on a very significant shortage of examiners Special meeting of Dunigal County Council will be held today to acknowledge the Crecelon tragedy Concerts will offer their condolences to the families of the 10 victims of the explosion and pay tribute to the emergency services for Their work in the major rescue and recovery operation What supports the council can offer now in the aftermath will also be up for discussion Ask a hearlock of Dunigal County Council, Councilor me hon Nocton says there is an onus on the council to ensure those impacted by the tragedy are looked after The people will leave extra support there around the Crecelon area You know a busy what would have last year is you know the heart of the village the heart of the community And the people suffering and their hearts have to go out and the people have lost loved ones So definitely there is an onus on us as councilors and Dunigal County Council to put whatever support and help that we can Do make sure that these people are looked after in the future The Crecelon post office meanwhile will this morning reopen at a temporary location The facility was destroyed in the explosion over a week ago The new temporary post office is located on the main street in the building Which ties the local post office for a number of years and up to May of this year Since the tragedy post office services have been available at nearby Kilmickrennan all services will now return to Crecelon Finally for weather mainly dry and sunny today It will become breezy later with highest temperatures of 12 to 14 degrees That's all from Highland radio news for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then. Good morning You're all living your best lives now, aren't you? That's right. Andrea got a new car with heated everything Greg's finally having his horse themed wedding. I'm getting the bathroom read on It's a waterfall rain shower This might not be your life But with the loan from onpust money you can live your best life with Ireland's lowest rate on loans over 20k Apply now at onpust.com slash loans onpust money your money for your world Lending criteria fees and fees apply new applications only info correct July 14 2022 so a ccpc for Ireland's lowest rate Onpust acts as a credit intermediary on behalf of avant-garde deck on post trading as onpust money is authorized as a credit intermediary by the ccpc Avant-garde deck trading as avant-garde money is regulated by the central bank of Ireland The nine till noon show is brought to you by green shoes at letterkenny shopping center Market square in falcara with a new range of great autumn winter footwear now in stock Also online at green shoes dot com The county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio And now it's time for the talk of the northwest the nine till noon show with greg hughes on highland radio Hello, good morning to you. It's just turned five minutes past nine on this Tuesday. It's the 18th of october How are you doing? I hope you're very well indeed and hopefully You'll stick around and enjoy the show for the next three hours. We have the lines open for you right now WhatsApps and texts await six sixty twenty five thousand Feel free to have your say pass on some information whatever it might be you're more than welcome To get in touch you can also call by the way 07 491 25 000 07 491 25 000 or Your emails to comments at highland radio dot com if you want to watch the show On your fire stick youtube watch or not youtube watch facebook watch or whatever you can go straight to our website Click watch live on highland radio dot com or go over to youtube highland radio island or any of our facebook pages And it's great to have Green shoes letter candy and falcara on board sponsoring the program for this week and we have a pair of dubury leather boots Available for you to win today and i'll let you know after we run through the papers how you get involved In that so thanks to our sponsors green shoes letter candy and falcara We have a beautiful pair of dubury leather boots dubury are a top irish brand and i'm new this season at greens And there's a great selection of top quality shoes and boots now available in store online And i have to go in there myself and get hodson a pair of shoes So i'll be reminded all week uh to win to win to greens all right So stay tuned for how you can win those boots and um For the rest of what we have lined up for you today Let's look at the newspapers for this morning and the donagall people's press Father john joe duffy reveals tragedy helped him through traumatic week Chrysler curate father john joe duffy has used the experience of his own personal trauma following the tragic drowning of his father 21 years ago to comfort the Breved and injured in the village speaking at mass in st michael's church on sunday Father duffy appealed to everyone to avail of the professional cancelling services that had been provided to help the community cope With the trauma that they had experienced following the tragedy on friday october 7th And i think really what was important about Father john joe making those comments is that it would encourage others you know to reflect on What's affected them in the past how the events of the last 10 11 days has affected them and to speak to someone about it and it was a a Very brave obviously when you open up and talk about your own situation It's incredibly brave in a public forum But what it also does is it sort of opens that door a little wider maybe just someone who is feeling That they might need a little bit to help it opens the door a little bit wider for them Maybe just step in and get the help that they need and i would imagine there was certainly a Another example of leadership from father john joe duffy into to facing up to what's affecting us and to get some help for it When it's available and it is still available for those Who are affected by the kreisler tragedy The dairy journal mourners heard how five-year-old shawna flanagan Garway was a caring little girl who was so excited to start school last month shawna and her dad robert Were laid to rest on saturday the last of 10 people killed in a gas explosion A suspected gas explosion at a shop in kreisler the people who died were james o flaherty 48 jessica gallagher 24 martin mcgill 49 katharino donald 39 her son james 13 Hugh kelly 59 martina martin 49 robert garway 50 and his daughter shawna who we mentioned five years and of course leona harper just 14 years of age And we remember them and we keep them in our our thoughts of course On to the irish times now and i don't know if you've got a view on the evictions band Maybe you've had landlords view i think maybe a landlord might be less inclined to Come on and talk about it because you know you put your head above the parapet Someone's going to try and take it off But i'd be interested in maybe you're a renter or a landlord if you have a view on this because it's not exclusive to Areas with sort of rent pressure zones, etc It's going to impact us here Well, the cabinet's expected to approve a ban on new evictions lasting until next march when it meets this morning Despite misgivings about the measure among some in finna gale Once ministers give the go ahead the government will introduce legislation in the iraqtis which is Which it aims to pass before the end of this month However, it's expected that the evictions ban will not extend to tenants who refuse to pay rent or misuse a property And that existing notice to quit will still be enforceable, which You know like it's not in power yet. So landlords looking to get people out. They might issue a notice To quit now, right and then the talent has no protection really So they're giving them a window landlords a window effectively to issues these notices. That's how some might see it But what do you think? Maybe there is an element of pushing a can down the road to march But because we're facing into a winter maybe that is the right thing to do I don't know what's the right thing or wrong thing in this situation But what do you think 08 660 25 000 the Cabinet going to agree that today Irish independent tells us that one of the country's largest home builders wants to entice farmers into partnerships That may see them get higher than normal prices for land In some cases glenvey properties will be prepared to offer Substantial non-refundable deposits to secure a farmer's support for a project That's interesting phraseology, isn't it a non-refundable deposit to get a farmer's support for a project Okay Sounds a bit like a payoff doesn't it they've launched a campaign aimed at overcoming what it sees as a huge Fall-off in the amount of development land coming to market the deal will see farmers paid an upfront sum on condition The developer can make a planning application Glenvey will then carry all the costs associated with a sizable acclimate application to a local authority If permission for a development is granted the final sale price will be higher Than what the farmer might have expected if he had sold at the beginning of the process if the farmer Sold the land today with issues in place planning or lack of services It would sell for x whereas if they come On the journey with us and we had value through the planning process or services They will be paid a different figure as that value is added to the land glenvey investment director Owen Hughes told the Irish independent it seems to make a bit of sense Right on to the um The Irish daily mail right really bizarre It's it's really bizarre politically at the best of times wherever you are but over in Britain at the moment Unbelievable stuff. I'm finding myself feeling sorry for Liz trust Liz trust now. I am fully aware of what she and her former Exchequer her former chancellor have done to people um a lot of people now because of the mini budget that they announced a lot of people are seeing mortgages First time buyers particularly all those exiting deals a mortgage of save for instance Well, actually the figure is on average a mortgage increase of two and a half thousand pounds now To earn two and a half thousand pounds often you have to earn four or five Before you can clear two and a half thousand pounds. So they're mistaken inverted commas is going to cost um You know your average mortgage holder in Britain and Northern Ireland two and a half grand a year Not to mention the other impacts it might have because they had given hope in terms of certainty over Uh electricity prices that's been scrapped as well after March But what I'm saying is is I don't feel sorry for in that she's well capable to um To suffer the consequences of her decisions politically But it is it's just the shambles. I mean there was a labor put down a A a a question yesterday, which normally would see the the leader of government come in to answer She just didn't turn up. She just didn't turn up and then she did turn up when uh, jeremy hunt was addressing um The houses of the house of commons and she sat behind him and said nothing and then left halfway through his presentation Really quite bizarre and then she gave an interview to the bbc last night Which was as watery as they come. Well last night, uh, Liz trust was warned She was in office, but not in power as she issued a groveling apology for blunders on the uk economy Speaking after new chancellor jeremy hunt dismantled her tax cutting growth plans The british prime minister said she had gone too far too fast I want to accept responsibility and say sorry for the mistakes that have been made I was expecting it to be tough and it has been tough. I think it's fair to say she told the bbc Earlier mr. Hunt used an extraordinary five-minute televised statement to axe almost all of miss tross's flagship tax cuts in a bid to reassure the financial markets that the government was serious about balancing the books, but she's a She's a lame duck now. She's a This is not a u-turn. This is like turning a Oil tanker on a sixpence But as I say, there's a Tory tax now on mortgage payers and others affected by the interest rates, which will not come back like they went up and britain And of course you have to throw this into the brexit context now britain has a 60 billion euro hole in its finances and the reversal of those measures yesterday Plugs about half of that they have to find 30 billion annually Which means that rather than tax cuts there's going to have to be tax increases rather than reductions in spending Rather than reductions in spending on public services the nhs, etc They are actually going to have to They're actually going to have to cut even further. So they're facing into an awful time over there Hopefully we are some somewhat insulated by it The start today jerry the monk hutch is expected today to plead not guilty to the charge of murder of kinehand cartel associate david burn mr. Hutch who's 59 Will this morning stand trial for the february 2016 murder of burn in what's expected to be the gangland court case of the decade one of the first things Mr. Hutch will have to do when the trial starts in the non-jury special criminal court in doblin is to formally answer the allegation That he murdered mr. Burn He will be arraigned at the start of today's proceedings and will have to say whether he pleads guilty or not guilty His defense team has already indicated. He's fighting the charge as soon as he utters the words his trial will start There's going to be a lot of if you're interested in that You're going to be flooded with it in the likes of the tabloids the red top tabloids And elsewhere if you're not interested in it's going to be hard to avoid dez kahle He's hanging up the mic of a program. I've never really watched actually the sunday game dez kahle revealed he's thrilled to be stepping down from his role as the host of the sunday game as The show's broken and needs to be fixed the 63-year-old yesterday announced his decision to leave bringing a 15-year spell On rt tv to an end the gea broadcaster revealed He was calling it quits because he wants to go see live games again but dez has no regrets as Hosting the show Left him feeling frustrated in recent years. He yesterday told the Irish son about a shock exit. I'm thrilled I'm heading off to somewhere posh with my wife now for the afternoon to celebrate I'm lucky that I enjoyed it so much, but I'm surprised. I'm so happy now. I thought I would have Pangs when the announcement was made my son said to me you should have done it a couple of years ago Because he could see I was frustrated. All right, okay. Who's to replace him though? Jackie hurley's in in with a shout Darrell Maloney Damian Lawler Darrell can age it and Marty Morrissey is also Being shortlisted for that role. I don't think he'd do it though. Would he give up his Would he pick up his commentary to do that and all the other stuff he enjoys doing now? I don't know. What do you think do you have a preference 08 6 60 25 000 And is this the last one? I believe it is, you know The Irish daily mirror workplaces face an exodus of female staff after research revealed most menopausal women aren't getting the help They need to help them in their jobs Just over 36 of respondents in the poll of over a thousand people say They've been forced to call in sick on account of devastating symptoms and 81 didn't feel comfortable Discussing the issue with their employer researchers also found 38.4 percent of women who took part in the survey said They would consider quitting their jobs because of menopause and businesses need a framework really whereby you know HR or boss or whatever Can broach the subject or that someone who's affected by that feels that there's a as I say a framework for them To bring up that issue it affects an awful lot of people. All right, let's Let's do this quiz. Shall we where is it? I haven't a clue. 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He puts in the hard yards Day in day out Some say he's mad to do it He doesn't disagree But he'd do anything for this game He's a referee And he belongs where we all belong The gAA stands with its referees and match officials join us in doing the same. That's referee respect day sunday october 23rd Hashtag gAA Refrespect gAA Where we all belong Okay, so there's an international conference on my kid defective blocks taking place on tuesday november 15th That's next month between 1 45 and 9 45 p.m. I'm joined by a number of guests to discuss this now first. We'll say good morning to you professor paul donlop research director Photography and environmental sciences also university. Good morning paul Morning gray. How are you doing to have you with us? I'm doing great. Thanks. Dr. Eileen da hearty is a lecturer in digital transformation at Also universities with us as well. Eileen. Good morning to you Good morning gray. And joseph morgan is director of engineering at droover of a pronunciation connect Correct there joe. That's correct. I may have even pronounced pronunciation wrong. Maybe it's pronunciation. I have a clue Anyway, listen, I digress paul I wanted to maybe start with you if that's okay And to help me and others who aren't familiar with this that where does this conference sit? In the whole sort of mica controversy the whole mica scandal if you know what I mean because people will be listening at home And you know there's frustration there as the the scheme seems stalled and there's question marks over it as well You know and and we have the manufacture of these products and then we're here now So just did that whole time frame or in the whole context? Where does this? Where does this conference sit? Okay, so mean obviously there's been a lot of people who've been following the the will make a So Particularly in dunagol will have be very aware of a another mineral that has sort of come into the mix called pirate tight Which is very highly reactive mineral called an iron sulfide mineral and it releases sulfur in the con under the concrete blocks when it's Comes in contact with oxygen and moisture that turns into sulfuric acid and it can attack concrete and a lot of applications have stalled because of The department of housing and the nsa is 465 don't take that mineral into consideration Although there's definitely mounting evidence of that playing A major part in what's happening in the concrete in ireland. So Is 465 is currently under review. It was doro ryan the minister Said that need to be happen to try and look at all our factors that might be causing Concrete to degrade so That's where we sort of flipped into this, you know, we decided that we would try and reach out to some of the best International scientists in the world We work with defective concrete geological minerals and understand the detail of what is happening in concrete And bring them across to ireland now. We had an event in march last year We recall we had speakers at the european parliament. These are the same people So luke ming flanagan's office is paying for them to come across to Donegal to basically see what's happening in detail up close And also share with Anybody who wants to come to the conference, whether that's homeowners or engineers work on the scheme or government officials or people from the nsa i What a pirate type doesn't concrete What all our factors may be in Causing issues here in concrete in donegal and also what Science has told all our countries internationally about the impacts of these minerals on concrete. So it's a bit of a sort of It's a gallerin of expertise for the first time With some of the leading experts in this field the island to try and throw a fair bit of intelligence onto the issue And is this then more looking to the future and to maybe help avoid anything like this happening again, or you know us really Being a reference if anything like this happens elsewhere. In other words, what impact might this have retrospectively? So I mean one of the things that That we want to do is bring across all our people from different countries to show how science has informed The standards in all our countries and we know the people who we've brought across Have their scientific results have changed standards in canada in america and in norway So it's about that. It's about trying to show as well. Well, how did you deal with your company and what can we do here in ireland? We have an authority A body called nsa i national standards authority of ireland We are responsible for update and standards So, you know, they can learn from other countries about what to do. How do they Deal with this issue and how did they change standards to protect citizens in the future? So it's a couple of things. It's it's about Bringing intelligence to ireland It's about having open discussion with all our people there. It's not just about piratite. This conference has got A broader spectrum of people who deal with defective concrete coming to it But it's about opening up a debate And it's about hoping that basically the people who are Interested and responsible for updating standards will listen. Yeah, that's what I was going to say And pardon my ignorance before we bring the other guests in here Is this not the type of initiative a government, for example, taking an issue like this seriously It should be organizing themselves be in front of or behind closed doors Do you know what I mean? Like if you are really serious about getting to the bottom of a problem to tackling it to understanding it Like you would expect sort of the housing department or something to be drawing this type these type of experts together Yeah, can I just come in there? Yeah, yeah, um, actually it's a it's a very very good point because actually when we were in the working group last year myself and joe We actually said that very thing to the department of housing We gave them information on all these people. We gave them the email addresses We gave them all their names and we told them who they were Now their lists have still since expanded because paul has reached out to another few who he was working with But we literally a year ago or more gave them all these information this information said You should be speaking to these people. So yes, absolutely This is something that we should not necessarily have had to take the initiative on Now, obviously the the focus of this is paul said it's piratite and it's science But it's much much broader than that as well I mean It's effectively as somebody said to me in the last week because we've been organizing this obviously for a number of months myself paul and joe It's really literally it's going to be an event where everybody who has anybody and effective Concrete or materials is going to be in the one building on the one day Internationally, that's the simplest way to describe but it's not just the scientists that are brought over to talk about the minerals It's the government officials. We have a session on government representation We have a session on the societal impacts on mental health. We have groups like initial development partnership We have researchers in psychology. You're talking about mental health. We have families who are coming to tell their story We have commercial premises businesses who are coming to tell their story I'll be presenting on the irish governance the lack of governance It's a massive massive conference. It's an incredible conference as it's come together We started off with sort of maybe smaller plans and it's expanded into something really quite exciting I mean at the end of the day, I think the key thing greg is that this is about collaboration You know, we've spent a lot of the last number of years, you know, there's frustrations on every side You know, the scheme is not perfect But ultimately we need to get everybody together and to the one room And we need to start discussing how do we come up with solutions? That's effectively the easiest way to describe what this conference is How do we come up with solutions on all aspects of either the scheme On the fact that the protocol is deficient on the fact that there's not enough mental health provision on the county How do we deal with the fact that the commercial premises businesses have not been supported? It's absolutely everything now. We have this on day one, which is two to the 15th Myself, Paul and Joe are going to then take the delegation of international experts and researchers On a day trip the next day on a site visit across Anisho, mostly on Lerner, Kenny And then on the third day we have what we call a research scoping day where we're going to sit down and say right Where do we go from here? The focus of this is research We want to ensure that there's absolutely the best researchers undertaken by all of the key stakeholders And that we really just start Taking this very seriously. Some of these things, I mean we've been asking for facilitators for the last two years There's nobody on the ground supporting families. These kind of things we have to give a bit more prominence to So this is basically, I suppose a mixed bag, but it's really all encompassing. It's everything Yeah, Joseph to the scale of this And All the different All the different parts of this scandal that it covers. I mean this should be From page news nationally certainly if not internationally Such as the quality of this conference that has been put together because it touches Everything like no one could attend this and not have a full understanding of everything that's going on here Yeah, I think alien public I'm sorry to look quick. Well, Greg it is multi-disciplinary So, you know, there are three very distinct threads running through the conference and to Paul's point The who's who's of experts international experts in concrete are going to be And on location in Donegal on that date of the 15th of November And like Paul has very much led bringing the scientists who are worldwide recognized together And there's there, you know, if you look at the agenda, it's in a very exhaustive agenda And we've also brought in leading players from government organizations and state bodies as well in order that we get a balanced view View right because ultimately we're trying to inform policy it as a result of us I mean is going to be covering the multi-disciplinary aspects around governance and psychology, etc And then where I'm coming in Is to try and care where we're at in terms of research that we've done around EU regulation And you know, just in summary that exercise has been going on Since the middle of last year off the back of the work myself and alien we're doing in the working group As you know, we visited Brussels in December 2021 To present an initial petition to the petition within the EU Parliament So there is activity happening as a result of that and we covered that in a bit more detail and then subsequent to that We've also changed that and we're also now looking at The relevance of EU human rights regulation, which has a slightly different objective and that that is to Try and inform And enhance the current parameters of this game that's being proposed by the government today Yeah, Paul is part of the problem though the the the wider the parameters of this scheme The wider they become the more expensive it becomes and to some extent This current scheme that seems to be just something to put a lid on the problem for a while If you know what I mean like there would have to be an appetite to sort of embrace This information and say do you know what we really need to do the right thing here? I wonder In political circles regardless of where those circles are will the appetite be there for broadening this out really to where probably needs to be Well, I mean ultimately if you want to try and resolve a major problem You have to get down to the facts that are causing it, you know And if you don't do that, then it just prolongs the issue So and it prolongs the pain and it prolongs the finances of it So, you know, we've all seen that there's been a real push back from government to try and understand what's been happening really It took around 12 years been aliens been at the front list from the very very beginning They try and get a scheme in the first place and there was a massive social campaign last year to try and get A better scheme that would work for people and then there was a lot of people work with the local Qualitations and TDs to try and get 80 amendments done They try and make the legislation right and every single one of them were rejected by the current government You know, so you can kick back as long as you like but it only prolongs the pain And and the suffering of individuals living at homes But also the finances of it and ultimately if you want to get it resolved you need science to hear you a What's happening internally in the concrete and be how do we change regulations using the science information? So this never ever happens again. Can I ask you what might seem like especially given given the The talent I have on this on this call, but there might seem a basic Thing but see see for instance session three scientific insights into the cause of defective concrete, right? Like maybe a lot of people out there think that at some point Someone made a decision, right? To say that we can produce this product Maybe cheaper or more efficiently. I don't know what and as a result of a decision that was taken Here we are now Is that the case because you know, obviously we need to hold those responsible To account, right? But then sometimes when it gets so technical, maybe there's an out there Well, I didn't realize it was so technical We just do you get where I'm coming from like so could you could you talk a little bit about that? Well, I mean I'll keep it very basic for everyone listening, you know, so essentially, uh, european unique about the standards For producing all sorts of materials. They are adopted by nsai and for sort of the average format so Very easy one to follow with one called sr16 Which is basically the standards that you follow for producing aggregates and aggregates are basically rocket. You just crush Now that there are very clear guidance within those standards in terms of how you follow And a very simple one to look at is basically what what how much sulfur is being released if pirate tight is present It's very very very small amount. So anyone who's crushing bedrock with pirate height present as a mineral Should be testing their aggregates and seeing does their Uh, sulfur release conform to what's in sr16 and if it doesn't then you can't use it to make concrete That's my understanding of it to me. It may be very simple. So in other words, if there are there are guidance If national standards had have been followed at the time that these products were being produced We wouldn't be where we're at now is really Well, we're saying yeah, and I mean can I just say that also like say for example I'm presenting a paper in Portugal next month on the governance failure by their state What I'm looking at and presenting and I'm going to be talking about at this conference too is The government didn't learn from pirate so pirate came before us After pirate there was a report done an independent report and they produced Say about 17 recommendations to say this is what we should do now to address that this rules And if it ever comes up again, this is the kind of things we should do So I've gone through each of the recommendations from pirate And looked at what did they actually implement following pirate that might have helped us avoid the situation Virtually nothing Virtually nothing was implemented from pirates. So the point is we're trying to say is it's not only from a scientific point of view But there's all this governance issue like why why did the government even bother doing that investigation into pirate when they don't even bother Taking on their own recommendations. I mean joe's looking at the EU stuff, which is it's really incredible There's an amazing amount of stuff. I don't know joe if you want to make a comment there the joe's Yeah, I was going to commend alien and Greg to your question We know and it's not just homeowners who are saying it the government themselves and their advisors And industry experts in Ireland are now confirming that there has not been Assessment of queries that would align to what EU regulation stipulates that they have to do And one of the key shorefalls is and the government has said this I'm not making this up the government have stated this in writing and verbally They they would assess queries off the foot of a complaint In the absence of a complaint, there was no assessment happening Now the EU states that you have to have regular proactive Assessment of queries and the manufacturing processes of concrete that wasn't happening in Ireland So that is a contributing factor in terms of where we find ourselves today Yeah, and sorry for the basic question but sometimes when the the more science you introduce into it sometimes it can You know, and I often think if I'm struggling a little bit Other people listening are so it's good to ask and I think just get that clarified the balance to Eileen here between You know the science and I'll go back to paul on on some of the talent that's been invited and is attending Versus, you know the reality for people there that go they're going to be there the reality of it You've talked a little earlier on too about how it's affecting people in all all all different ways An important balance to strike there, wasn't it? So this is all inclusive really It's all inclusive and I think it's worth noting again I've mentioned very briefly at the start but there is a session also where government are coming to speak and that's a big deal for us too Because that happened just really in the last couple of weeks We have John O'Connor, for example, who's coming to speak he was liaison between homeowners and the department over the last year So we have people from engineers out in Damien O's from engineers out in with Mark Mcdiamond from the council So we have that balance in the sense they're going to come Families will have an opportunity to maybe ask questions of those kind of government bodies Then we have the multidisciplinary session, which is a session that I'm chairing and It's a really good opportunity for us to give Families and other people affected the opportunity to talk about how this is impacting them on an it's an international stage Ultimately, Greg, you know a lot of the scientists who are coming from all over the world the government officials who are going to be there They're going to hear these stories first hand from these families. There's a full day event They can meet these people. So here are very different stories from Eileen McLaughlin-Long who's going to talk about the impact on her and her family We're going to have Angeline Ruddy from Mobile. She's a teacher She's going to talk about the impact on students and also school teachers just in her and Mobile College And then we have actually an anonymous business owner who is going to we're going to present his His presentation and again that highlights this the fear that's amongst commercial property owners because they If they they come forward to say they have mica. They have no insurance. So we have a very mixed bag there We also have an issue development partnership who will talk about the schemes that they're currently running to support families all over the county and then we have psychology from Karen Kirby whose Senior Lecture in Psychology and she looked talk about the research that she's they're planning to undertake. So there's a huge amount of Stuff there. I mean to be honest, Greg, we could have done this over three days or so many people would love to have asked But we're trying to do it at the first time it's ever been done. It's nothing's ever been done like this internationally And again, we hope this is the first of many. So we really just want people to go online We want them to register and we just want to really have a full house This is an opportunity for families to meet so many different people that they might have questions of So we really really urge people to register and to come on the day Yeah, and as we we begin to wrap up we'll definitely remind people as to how they can But I'm just looking at the round table stakeholder discussion um Paul that's going to be fascinating Because these people will not have had an opportunity on this scale to interact before Uh, so, you know, you know what I mean all of them all at the same time I'd imagine that's the rule on zoom, but I imagine not so it's going to be it's going to be But my point is it's going to be it's going to be a fascinating Conversation that we really don't know where it might go in other words at the end of that round table stakeholder discussion It'll be quite interesting to see where we are Are at in terms of the the sort of science side of things and I will have to put an idea But do you get where I'm coming from? Yeah, no, absolutely the idea of doing that was to try and get out like a mixed group of stakeholders all all who have some sort of involvement and either the science of understanding what happens with concrete Down to the people right the people who are living with the impacts of living with the effect of concrete And then between the people who are trying to deal with it And to try and maybe they get a chance to sort of Sort of debate that openly Get people to sort of fully understand the implications of what's happening on the ground And then how people are dealing with it. So like for example, we've got thomas gambling He's one of the engineers on is four six five He's dealing with homeowners and don't go all and the county mail Quite a complicated thing because it's actually different issues happening in different counties That we think at the minute and then we've got different scientific opinions there And then we've got sort of government officials. John Connor and mark McDermott engineers out in demon demons No ones people like that who are dealing with sort of registered engineers on the thing So I think that that'll be a very very good discussion and and again, you'll see sort of I would think A good chance to get get immediate information from the experts or someone has an idea or an issue They talk about in the round table and you can get a quite a quick answer straight away without having to wait For a long time. So I think that's going to be a very good session Yeah, Joe talk to me a little bit more about the The EU policy session that you're chairing with uh, Luke ming flanagan Yeah, so greg that I mean, I actually I was on a couple of weeks with you and I kind of summarized it I'll do it again, but we will be going into it. I can't remember everything. Joe. Let's go again So so just the first piece will be great for my own perspective will be to revisit The delegation to Brussels in december last year and I presented to the patio commission I lean actually joined it joined me. She was one of the delegates that were out there as well So what we make happen on our objective on that trip was which was very specific to construction Manufacturer regulation, right? And what's happened since then off the back of that So that'd be the first piece and but subsequently I think this is more important and will be more of interest of homeowners today Given where we're at with the scheme We we have done a lot of research in terms of EU Human rights regulation and there is quite a bit of us Which we feel is very very relevant to where we find ourselves today in terms of the shortfalls with with the scheme and what we're trying to do is apply political pressure from the EU in order to Amend some of the parameters of the existing scheme in order that we have 100 percent of our homeowners covered by it, which we don't have today Uh, right and paul, do we as anyone ever made an estimate as to the full scale of this problem and potential costs? you know say for instances as we learn more about the science and and You know how products are deteriorating over what period of time and how many might be affected and What the costs might be now of course when we talk about cost it depends on what you were to do to remediate these homes but I mean Where would you see the ballpark figure in reality over multiple years? We'd be talking uh, the the cost of of fixing this problem correctly That's a it's a big question. Yeah, and I don't really have the answer for that because you know at the moment You think about it like the three billion that we hear from government only really deals with people's private individual homes It's not dealing with the likes of the business owner that aliens bring their their session The garages the petrol stations the public buildings. It's not dealing with any of that You know, so essentially that three billion is a very low estimate. I think it's much higher than that Yeah, and can I just make a comment on that if you don't mind paul because actually that that just gives you a very good Example there greg of why we need research And one of the people that i'm looking to work with is people who are in business who are looking at financial modeling So that's an example of something that needs to be done. So none of that stuff has ever been done There's so many parameters of this micro issue that's never ever been properly researched And that's exactly one of the areas i've actually been trying to get somebody to do It's like you pick a figure that sort of sounds massive Uh, and then sort of say a few things and then that's that sorted but you know in reality in reality where where Where are you and maybe if the figure was four times that Everything needs to be chucked out again and revisited and to incorporate all the types of buildings that you're talking of Yeah, you know something greg just just if you think about this right so this scheme Effectively it's going to cost three billion plus. Okay, but no one knows the upper figure really And do you know how much funding has been allocated for research? I think they give one project 50 000 euro two years ago. They look at the effect of concrete. They think in mail How do you mail mean you would think that basically the government would go okay There's how do we understand what's going on here? We need to fund there's science foundation For example, there's different funding bodies in the south of iran. This should be Research fund you see this is this is the this is the problem with the kind of world we're living in that you might remember Um, that it was clearly a government tactic and and when this is not being anti-government But it was clearly a government tactic to connect the spend On repairing homes with taxpayers. So in other words, we're we're taking money out of your pocket, right? And we're going to have to give it to these mansion owners in donningall That was a narrative for a couple of weeks. What we should be saying is well Can you make sure that you're spending on money correctly? Can you do your research? So that we know exactly how this money's being spent and that if my son or daughter builds a house that it won't happen to them But there's that there's not that sort of trickle up accountability that we really should be insisting on No, I'm just to give you an idea that in canada, for example We have experts coming from university in canada and canada. They've given over a million dollars And research funding, you know, they've done some of that stuff in the us Why are we not doing why are we not talking about this because they don't maybe because the Because the answers might cost 20 billion Exactly, we know that and that's one of the reasons why I think we just have to force this conversation Um, greg and I think it's just a really important conference There's so many questions that people ask like the one you've asked that nobody is even looking at So we want to become effectively kind of a center of excellence in the northwest and ulster and and atu And to really start asking and answering some of these questions on behalf of Everybody involved in this issue, right? Okay. So yes, go ahead. Can I make one last question? Just very quickly. So we have a current estimate in government of 2.7 billion But there's a foundational or fundamental assumption in that estimate That's the fix and the remediation that they put in play for each and every one of these houses is going to be correct Right, this conference may Contradict that foundational assumption in that what they're proposing and what they think today is the Is the issue in dunigala down the western seaboard That that could be contradicted But if if we go ahead as we are and we fix these homes without the level of science that we're proposing and click it off with this event the cost will Exponentially grow because they'll have to go back and redo some of these properties But sure look at i'm not an expert but Like even i was listening to donal on the show yesterday and they were talking about smoke and cessation And the question was about vapes the use of vapes. This is a random analogy Don't get me wrong But I think well, we can't say anything about vapes because we don't know we don't have the research Not enough time hasn't passed right But you were prepared to spend billions of euro on maybe outer leafs not considering foundations And if the truth be told unless there's a great deal of research Not enough time is to pass to find out what happens to internal leaves have it correct me if i'm wrong I don't know or or to what might happen as as as foundations may deteriorate But in the absence of that information We are still prepared to potentially spend billions of taxpayers money Without really knowing what might happen to these houses in five or ten years time You should be throwing millions and millions of euro at the research to try and figure that out I mean that would be a logical use of public funds, wouldn't it? Okay, absolutely. And the the thing about that is it mean like our university also university Provided some some small amount of funding for me and Andreas Lehman to do some work together And we have tested inside leaves We have tested outer leaves and we've also tested the first time a few weeks ago We took a foundation concrete samples from the house that was demolished Now we're doing that research on our own because we understand The real pressing needs to get answers for homeowners. I mean that should be happening at a much higher level Government and you know Andreas is going to be presenting those results at the conference. Very interesting. Nextly There's no point me asking the next question. I was going to say what did your preliminary examinations find? But anyway, it'll be worth waiting for because this is There's if you simply just run through Who's at it and what's being covered? You'll see that this is a wide-ranging and fascinating and important conference that probably should be sponsored Or run by the government, but it's not it's being run by the people Or put together by the people we've been speaking to it's at the Atlantic Technological University Uh, it runs from Tuesday. Sorry. It's on Tuesday, November 15th. It runs from 145 to 945 I know from things that we do in this program. There'll be a rush towards the end So if anyone really definitely wants to have their position To to observe this whoever wants to take this you need to get on to event right now I would strongly suggest because obviously There's not an indefinite tour. Sorry. There's there's a limited amount of seats, isn't there? Yes, there is a limited amount of seats We would say that we're still talking to you about the actual room and the size but Absolutely, please get on and register as soon as possible I mean, I think this just we're thinking about we might offer some sort of streaming capability But it'll not compare to being in the room, Greg I mean, they're you're getting to meet people getting to ask those questions as Paul and Joe said And I think we just really really want as many people to register and to contact us with any other queries. But yes All right, finally anything anyone wants to start Paul? Just one thing, I mean like a lot of homeowners ask me because I understand the sense a bit more detail in the lords about their Homeowner reports, but I get I get emailed them in a fairly regular basis. What do you think about this? What do you think about this? In this if you are a homeowner and you're stuck on the scheme or you're a homeowner and you want to try and get on the scheme This is your chance to go and talk to people who know what they're talking about Come down and talk to them and meet them come into the room. You're not going to get an odd chance like it No, and you can meet people from the department as well and from local authority who maybe if you're after your application's stuck This is an opportunity to everybody will be in that room who has anything to do with mica pirate pirateite So please please we urge people to come along 100 and we'll obviously remind people of the how they can book their tickets and stuff as well It's event write dot ie the science and social societal impacts of defective concrete And and it's going to be linked on the various Facebooks and stuff as well and we'll link it to because some of those URLs can be can be quite long listen We will do that send it through all right. 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What about You know funding for emergency works all that kind of stuff any questions in relation to that We will try our hardest to get answers For you where answers are available, of course. So that's on Thursday from 11 A caller says a mica kicked and kicked down the road How many years is this group allowing it to happen? Why didn't they bring Dublin to a halt? 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I'm akilah Clark with the news at 10 o'clock The finance minister says he's bringing changes to the proposed concrete block levy to cabinet this morning The charge on concrete products has been heavily opposed by the construction sector since it was announced on budget day Housing minister darrow brian has raised concerns with his colleagues about the impact of the levy on the cost of building a home Minister pascal donahue says he will announce changes to the concrete levy later We're keeping a levy. It's and we're going to be implementing a levy next year I have listened to the feedback in relation to The execution of the levy and some of the consequences that I could have I've made some modifications to us That I'll be briefing cabinet on this morning Well the construction industry federation says building levies to fund the micro redress scheme It should be aimed at manufacturers Director general of the construction industry federation tom parlin says manufacturers should be paying the levy The issue in dunig all with mica was defective concrete blocks. Nobody has ever challenged that it was defective concrete blocks There were that they were supplied to the house builder already industry and a lot of the houses in dunig all were self bills So it's the wrong target. It's not the industry It was the manufacturing and the supply side and they should be targeted Meanwhile an international conference on the science and societal impacts of defective concrete blocks is being held next month in letter Kenny the event will be co-hosted by the atu Ulster University and midlands northwest mep look ming flanigan on november the 15th at the atu's campus in letter kenny The conference will see leading international experts in geology our sciences and engineering The research the impacts of deleterious materials on concrete from canada the essay switzerland norway and arland professor paul dunlop a research director for geography and environmental sciences at ulster university Says the conference is about highlighting the approach in other countries In an aim to create standards that address defective block issues in arland One of the things that we want to do is bring across other people from different companies to show how science has informed The standards in other countries and we know the people who we've brought across Have their scientific results have changed standards. It's about trying to show as well Well, what did you do with your company and what can we do here in ireland? 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Good morning. If you're just joining us, where have you been? Uh, anyway, if you ever miss a part of the show, you can always listen back to the podcast of the program on our website Highland radio dot com will watch you back at your leisure or as they say in america leisure On our facebook and youtube pages coming up shortly. We'll have community guard information with, uh, guard agrania Daherty, so stay tuned for that What is going on and why is the problem not sorted people boiling water and buying water this past two months in letter macawal Catchment area of the water supply. Well, we've chased that up a couple of times. They say I believe it's this if it's the same issue They say that they are Trying to identify a problem and they'll let us know as soon as it's sorted It's not good enough and we spoke to people affected by that in terms of you know the reality of Trying to run a house and bottled water the expense particularly right now when uh, we're You know Our pounds on our euros aren't going as far as they used to Uh, why are we talking about the uk when I lived over in the uk? They never talked about us. We aren't talking about the uk but if you It would be naive for us to think that Politically what's politically happening in the united kingdom. It doesn't affect us firstly There's a lot of people listen to this program in derri in terrone for example who are affected by The policy decisions of west minster their mortgages are going up So it's also speaking to to those sisters and understanding what they're going through But not least also in terms of the impact What or who is in power in britain the impact it has on things like the northern island protocol There's lots of lots of different reasons Interested really on on the uh, london government's approach to say for instance scottish Independence i'd have a big interest in scottish independence and and where that conversation is going That's why really whether they talk about also not Greg why is the price of diesel shut up with very little noise about it? It's now 209 which is higher than it was when the last noise was about yet the price of a barrel of oil has not changed I'll look into that because I do know there was a spike in the cost of oil. I mentioned this last week Uh, it fell back again Uh, why is it diesel particularly that's affected we will get on maybe to the our Contacts in fuels island or whatever the name of the organization is and see if they can offer us a reason as to why Isn't that the right thing for us to do so that you have an answer The lack of proper building regulations is possibly similar to the beef issues decades ago But the micro issue has impacted like nothing else on the people and families if mickey is not sorted and the government survives We're in a very bad place politically. IMO Why don't they independently value the houses compensate the value i.e. 150 000 euro? Then wipe the planning requirements for the site and let the owner flatten the house and build whatever house they want Be that at 50 000 or their own and build 200 000 house or stick 50 in the bank and build 100 k house job done Everyone happy government have it out of the way and people of houses will listen It's not quite the same But you know that would be one way of looking at it But what the campaigners propose to the government is that people would be allowed to save for instance the rebuild of a house was 390 000 but they'd have to add an awful lot of money to that because it's another 100 percent redress scheme They said well allow us to downsize Uh and take that 390 and build the house that we can for that 390 therefore they might not have to go to lenders again It seemed kind of logical. It's somewhere in the sort of same space of what you're suggesting to some extent They refuse that so if they refuse that what seems like a common sense approach I can't imagine them writing checks as you Suggest But it would be one way of resolving the issue But the problem is is that you couldn't do it over multi years, perhaps I don't know what the argument might be Greg look after the countless million spent on bad pavement says a lot about Uh shoddy concrete companies another any house that is micah can't be sold Nobody wants any house built in the last 20 years Where are where's all the debris going to go when these houses are demolished? Well, I think there's been 14 houses completed so far Where is the debris going? I don't know. Uh, it's another question. Actually, do you know what? That's a question for councillor McDermott on uh, Tuesday on thursday. Sorry at 11 o'clock A winter eviction ban is to be introduced until february. It's like something from dickens I think it's beyond february, but we mentioned that Uh morning, Greg. My mortgage has gone up from 420 to 726 unbelievable, but what can we do? I'm gonna track a mortgage Can you switch? I don't know some of those tracker mortgages you locked in some of them you aren't I kind of naively thought tracker mortgages were fixed exactly at the european interest rate I realized subsequently that I know people on tracker mortgages said at 3.6 or 3.8 percent So they're starting to really feel the impact of these interest rates movements Um, you know, there was a time to lock in a mortgage Maybe still I don't know Right, okay, let's uh take the bingo numbers for those of you waiting on the numbers today Good luck if you are playing and well done. 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It's the 18th of october And it's the latest edition of community garter information and we're joined in studio today by garter granja da hati Thanks for joining us granja. I appreciate your time today as always Right, okay. Let's talk of appeals first and fatal road traffic collision, which very sadly occurred in karagas on october 14th I just might hold you for a second there granja because I I just have the wrong mic pressed here and it's just important that people hear you Right that should be good now No, it's not. I beg your pardon. Sorry about this. It's not my fault I'll tell you what we'll do we'll take a very quick break and we'll come back then to make sure we have the The mic working important because it's very important people here. 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Good morning again to you granja and our first appeal is relating to a fatal road traffic collision In car regard on october 14th. Yeah, so sadly a tragedy has struck again within the millford district and guardian emergency services attended the scene of a single vehicle fatal road traffic collision Happened on our 245 and carry gout on the morning of friday the 14th of october So this collision occurred just before 8 a.m. The driver was the sole occupant of the vehicle A man aged in his 40s, and he sadly later passed away as a result of his injuries So we are appealing to any witnesses or road users who may have dash cam footage You were in that area around that time to make this footage available to gaurdy Gaurdy may be contacted in millford on 0749153060 The gaurdy confidential lines there is always also 1-800-666-111 or contact any gaurdy station Okay, um next appeal is assaults in burn foot Yeah, at bunkrana gaurdy you're investigating a couple of alleged assaults these took place on thursday the 13th of october In around 10 p.m. So this happened in the car park of a closed down licensed premises This licensed premises is in sappa. So it's on the burn foot to muck road A number of men are believed to have been involved in an incident that took place at that location around that time So we are appealing to anybody who traveled on that road the burn foot to muck road Around that time and who had a dash cam to make that footage available to gaurdy in bunkrana And also if anybody witnessed this incident and can provide any details in relation to it We also asked them to contact gaurdy in bunkrana on 9320540 and as always again the gaurdy confidential lines available All right, so next appeal is criminal damage in meadow bank park Yeah, letter kenny gaurdy you're investigating this incident This incident happened at meadow bank park in letter kenny and the early hours of sunday the 16th of october So it's believed to have happened in around 120 a.m. That morning So a resident in the area had their car parked at the front of their property Damage was caused to the driver's side window and the rear passenger window of the car No entry was gained to the car three people all dressed in dark or black clothing Were observed leaving the scene shortly after so we appeal to old users who traveled in the area of the long lane Or within the meadow bank park area itself and who did ash cam again to make the footage available to gaurdy in letter kenny Again anybody that may have witnessed this incident or who may have seen the three people in question on foot on the long lane Or in the meadow bank park area to contact gaurdy in letter kenny on 9167 100 Okay, now bunkrana gaurdy again this time investigating criminal damage Yeah, so this criminal damage incident happened now a resident of a property reported that fireworks had been thrown at their property This resulted in the rear one screen of the car at the property being smashed So this incident happened at sledron bunkrana had approximately half past midnight on saturday the 15th of october So we appeal to anybody who has any information in relation to this incident or any fireworks related incidents And they're on up now to halloween to contact gaurdy and bunkrana on 9320540 We might stay on that issue as well too because unfortunately it's already begun We are seeing halloween's being let out halloween's fireworks being let off There's a lot going on here. Obviously there's the potential injury and we know the ed department in letter kenny Will see people injured by fireworks they do every year, but the disruption to residents and There are pets or animals as well. So what's the garden message as it relates to? fireworks usage Yeah, so halloween is on the horizon now and it's it's coming fast what next next week And we urge anybody who is thinking about buying are using fireworks to have a serious rethink about that You know fireworks and the associated noise can cause great distress most especially to older people and more vulnerable people And as you mentioned already the noise also frightens family pets And many of these pets run away from home as a result of the the noise and some of them quite simply don't return to their homes Fireworks are dangerous. They can cause very serious injuries And we just want to make everybody aware that there are severe criminal penalties for anybody who's found guilty of the offense of Igniting an illegal firework Throwing an ignited firework at a person or a property or possession of illegal fireworks for sale or supply The penalties are fines of up to 10 000 euro and five years imprisonment So people may not realize you know when they're buying these fireworks and letting them out they may not realize just how severe you know That the penalties are so we just wanted to make them especially You know a lot a lot of maybe even younger people consume a lot of social media It might be us based or whatever there's a far more relaxed attitude towards fireworks in different places Or at least it may appear By their social media, but here their use uh, it can only be done So if it's licensed and as you say the penalties are really really quite severe and letting off a firework for what you don't want that to Get in the way of maybe you're you know traveling for work abroad or whatever or even that the financial penalty of it It's taken very very seriously seriously here and those uh rules are are well enforced as well Of course and you will as you mentioned, you know for for people who wish to travel or wish to apply for a job They will have this conviction on the record afterwards. So just think about the consequences never good thinking also There are serious injuries, you know in each year we do post, you know usually we post pictures of some of the injuries and things like that, but And the emergency department no doubt this year will we hope it won't be as busy as other years that people will have a rethink But they do and it holds up an awful lot of um, you know emergency services ambulances The emergency department staff who are already under pressure, you know And we would just ask everybody to have a rethink and maybe for parents and guardians Just have a talk with their young people Last eyes damaged eyes burns on faces missing digits These are all Cases that will be reported out of eds across the country over the next while all avoidable all completely avoidable and People getting caught up in a moment and not realizing the consequences. We're not here to spoil people's fun Granja, but we know what what happens and what can happen and that you know, it would be Reckless reckless of us not to get that warning out there Of course, yeah, and we will have more content on our own facebook page You know as we approach halloween and also the donnie golfer service every year You know they issue warnings and videos in relation to so we would just ask people to make themselves aware of The injuries that can be sustained and are sustained every year and just most importantly to speak to their young people in relation to Maybe i'm being a little bit forgiven, you know forgiving sometimes in my attitude as to the impacts eggs being thrown at houses might have Um, but that being said, we've had contact from one person who seems to be particularly targeted I'm not saying where this appeal is not necessarily linked to that But there have been an increase in reports. Have they in terms of egg thrown again This is the where i'm probably being a little bit too forgiving. I wonder sometimes to those responsible realize The terrible impact they're having on other people. But anyway, what's uh, What's the nature of the appeal in this regard granja? Of course, yeah, and as i went through as i do every week went through all the incidents over the past I actually checked the last fortnight this morning and i did notice an increase in these sorts of reports You know people are having eggs thrown at their houses at their cars And you know this causes great especially if you have an older person living in a house or a vulnerable person Most especially that does it causes the massive distress and they feel as well as anything else that they're being personally targeted by their community Or something as well, you know, it's not just oh kids thrown You know a lot of people feel that this is something against them and it really worries them and it affects their sleep and Affects their their comfort in their own home. Do you know it can run really deep for people? That's what i want. Maybe those responsible to try and understand Yeah, and they may not look young people and young people are going you can't put an old head and young shoulders And they think that's a bit of fun, you know But as you've mentioned there these older people are anybody whose house is targeted by this sort of activity You know they do feel that they've been targeted and they do take it personally and most especially if it happens a second Or a third time and that causes immense worry for those people So we would just ask the public, you know just as always and i know i don't need to tell the public this They're very good in this regard. They do they look out for their neighbors. We would urge people especially the run up to halloween now Halloween itself Please if you see any sort of antisocial behavior in your community or if you see any sort of illegal activity Even something so simple as young people throwing eggs at doors cars And it hasn't happened at your property Maybe but you see them doing it across the road or somewhere else. Please pick up the phone call us Give a good description maybe of those involved And as well as that if you're traveling along, you know, and this actually happened to me last you know And I didn't have a dashcam and I wished I had but if you're traveling along And we often get calls too from people that are out driving and they'd say maybe you know There's a group of youths at In whichever area I see them there. They're throwing eggs at cars, which also that's another issue We haven't received any reports of that this year. Thank god to date But you know very that could put somebody off the road that could cause a serious collision But if you're driving along you have a dashcam and you think you may have captured antisocial or illegal activity You know coming up to halloween now Please just come in make that footage available to us so we can identify those involved, you know And we would urge anybody who is sometimes two people made of eggs thrown at their car or their house and I think you know You know, it doesn't cause permanent damage. Maybe they go out the wash it off They might not report it to us Anybody who this has happened to we would ask them. Please do report it to us. Don't feel one Bit embarrassed to be coming in it's not trivial and any word of the scent You know, it'll be treated with most seriousness and it will be fully investigated Because I presume you just follow trends and reports if there's a particular problem a particular area Patrols can be redirected or whatever, you know, I mean So if you get an idea of what's happening in a particular area for a particular amount of time You can you can adjust things in that regard Okay, of course and if we if we get a lot of reports within you know one area in particular Maybe we you know extra patrols as you said are then diverted to that area You know during the times that these incidents are usually taking place Um, not I mean it depends on age and a lot of variables What you know, someone egging a house what what is the crime there is such, you know, I mean, is there a stiff penalty or Yeah, well that that is it's investigated as a criminal damage Criminal damage, you know, it is it's the same as putting a breakthrough window Investigated in the exact same manner even though on these, you know It's mostly younger people and we don't like to pinpoint younger people all the time and point their finger at them But throwing eggs at houses and cars it usually is younger groups of people that and as I said There's discretion there and maybe a conversation might be enough, but that's determined Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you know, right. Okay. Now Guardi from the community policing unit are going to be in boncran and Maville. Yeah, correct. Yeah. Well a lot of recent events, you know, understandably have been cancelled and rescheduled so just to make the public aware that Guardi from the community policing unit boncran and they'll be at the Maville and district family resource center today actually October 18th They're there today between half 12 and half one So we would encourage the public to call in and if they want advice information Maybe the farms that they need stamped signed and we would also encourage them to come in You know, if they want to chat if they want to friendly chat, they're more than welcome to come in also Yeah, okay. Now another event that has been rescheduled was the property marking event in Dunlone Yeah, so this has been rescheduled So it will now take place the same location. Actually the Mina Cross Holland on low this Friday October the 21st Will take place between 7 p.m. And 9 p.m Guardi then from Carandona station will also be property marking at the initial and co-op That's the Carandona branch of the co-op They'll be there on Saturday the following day between the hours of 9 a.m. And 3 p.m So as mentioned before look property marking can prevent property being stolen. It can help us return recovered items to the rightful owner And you know, I think sometimes maybe people think as well when they hear about these property marking events They think it's only farm machinery, you know that it's only for trailers and farm machinery And that's not the case, you know a lot of different items can be property marked from phones to chainsaws trailers You know, there's a whole selection of items that can be property marked bikes bikes as well. Yeah trick scooters Yeah, you know nearly every item can be property marked to be honest I couldn't bring my fence in could I You could try if you I'm sure they'll mark it for you Yeah, and as and we've said before you know, a lot of stuff is recovered by Guardi And then you go well, how can we prove who owns it to return it? So there's there's a preventative measure, but there's also reuniting it with its rightful owner Some stuff has serial marks and which helps the serial numbers and stuff, but other stuff doesn't of course Well, especially phones basically as we would we would get a lot of those into our property store there in letter candy You know, and if it was property marked to me, it's great. You can just contact the owner directly I just also remain people to bring their correct air code with them also Right, okay Now an important piece of information went out from Guardi and I can really understand the motivation It's part of routine Guard a door-to-door inquiries in the in the Creasel area and of course particularly with emotions As raw as they are to To have a guard landing at the door and not knowing why it might cause further distress So tell us what's happening and what people could could look out for should look out for yeah No problem. Yeah. Now remember look the community in Creasel have seen a guard of presence anyway, you know over the past Week or further, you know, whatever We just wanted to make them aware people I found over the years Maybe you called a door. It could be just a routine inquiry. It could be Sometimes you called a door to ask for directions, you know, it could be something as simple as that And we would find that sometimes and understandably so people sometimes do, you know, they get upset or alarm sets And when they see a guard walking down the path of their house, I think I'd have a turn honestly because I'm such a warrior Yeah, well, that's it and look emotions are so high and it's a weak community Who it's devastated at the moment. We totally understand and we just wanted to make people aware routine inquiries That's what's taking place in Creasel at the moment, you know, we don't want to cause upset or alarm Gardy are calling door to door. They will be for the coming weeks over the course of the coming weeks We'll be calling door to door We wanted to make residents aware of that, you know And we posted it to our social media page and we just wanted to make those especially who aren't on social media aware We don't want to call work in case where people aren't aware of our intention to call by their house So in the Creasley area over the coming weeks, Gardy will be calling door to door We don't wish to cause panic and they are there as part of routine inquiry So we just wanted to put their minds at ease that if they do see a guard coming down the pathway to their house That's the reason for their visit. Okay Right now I think it's really a case of that the road is going to stay closed as long as it needs to stay closed to to allow this very complex Investigation to happen whichever Group of individuals are are pursuing it. So the road is going to remain closed for for some time. Is that correct? That's correct. Look, we don't we don't have a date yet for the road to reopen But we just wish to remain all road users that the traffic diversions are in place they remain in place And we wished to advise motorists perhaps who aren't from that area and are intending to travel to the area that these Diversions are still in place. We advise people to take alternative routes. So The N56 in Creasley does remain closed to all road users Diversion routes are via the N56, R255 Junction in Terman The R251 the back of the Aragile Road and the R256 the Muckish Road All diversions in and around Creasley Village are for local traffic only. So we just wanted to reiterate that make people aware Right, and then there are diversions in and around Creasley Village, but that's for the local traffic That's for local traffic only. I get you And so You have to say for instance the the back of Aragile It's quite some distance back from from Creasley So people need to be aware and keep the riot for those signs and plan the journeys They do and just can I just mention one more thing just before I go um Greg and I heard you talk about it earlier Actually, I think with Lee this morning. It was my way and I was tuned in Um about the fog the fog this morning the fog was atrocious this morning And as you're aware you were in early yourself But just to make people aware I noticed a lot of cars coming towards me in the road this morning Had no fog lights on and you know in patches of very dense fog the visibility was very poor So we would ask people to make sure that they're aware before they set off their journey and they're They're aware that there is fog there just make make yourself aware of where these switches are You know ensure that you know where your front and rear fog lights are and because they aren't dependent on the car They're not that simple actually to know which one because it's like a light with dashes going back or forwards You make yourself aware of which one is which uh because it's uh Something I until that's changed. I changed my car. It's a bit more clear my old car I've had to think about it. Yeah You don't and the last time that I changed my car actually was coming to work one morning There was fog and I pulled in pulled in at the side of the road to try and flick I was thinking this because I didn't want to continue any further without and I wasn't sure where the switches were So just your advice is before you leave home and there is fog there You're aware of visibility is going to be poor Familiarize yourself with where the fog lights are turn them on and of course when the fog when the fog clears And you're in a clear patch stretch a road again Please turn the fog lights off and just keep it good distance from the car in front also Just make sure that you have a good distance kept from and would you suggest people especially with fog and then it's dawn Right, would would you suggest people drive with their Dips on at least I mean there's no reason why not to that always baffles me really Do you know when you see a car just appear out of somewhere and you can what why the lights on there's no cost associated with it Yeah, well, of course, especially that period in the morning where it's just turning bright You know and it's not quite bright yet. Of course. Yeah, the advice would be to have your headlights on yet To um so that you can see also so that you're aware, you know If you come upon a cyclist or a pedestrian on a road your visibility is improved But also it triggers say for instance someone is walking In high viz it triggers the high viz as well. You know, that's another reason why it's important Just to have them on even if it seems to be relatively clear because your lights are often what will illuminate someone's high viz Of course, yeah, and it makes you as a motorist more visible to others also, which is important. Okie doke Listen, thanks very much for that granja as always. 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Nice to hear that Greg I live on the Thorn Road and over the last few weeks the noise coming from the water plant is unbearable Wakes us up at night and becoming more frequent Can you ask your listeners who we contact over this the council etc? um Irish water perhaps would have stewardship over that but you know what I'd contact everyone contact your local counsellor contact Contact Irish water and also contact The council itself, um and we'll give us more details. We'll make some inquiries on your behalf too Uh attended a meeting in dylan's hotel with the palestinian ambassador to ireland last night I personally don't believe the Irish government is doing enough compared to other countries etc Just this morning and the new government in australia has reversed its policy to recognize west druslim as israel's capital And why no sanctions on israel yet? 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Thank you for that Right. I'm speaking to you this morning as you are hosting a helping irish hosts on thursday the 20th of this month It's at 7 p.m. In the colab seminar room in the atu in letter Kenny So what is that the purpose beyond what I've just said of this meeting? Yeah, it's really to support and recognize and acknowledge the the community work that's happening out there in across dunagore to welcome refugees I I work for the irish refugee council. We we We provide a range of supports for refugees and people seeking protection in Ireland And we work on a project called community sponsorship, which allows for communities really to play a central role in welcoming and supporting refugees And this program is what welcomed over 30 families into into irish communities We've learned a lot through this program and we're working with partners locally the dunagore intercultural platform And the local the dunagore local development company And I know that a real power of work has been done to support newcomers across the county And we're really keen to acknowledge this work and share our expertise And also really just learn from the experiences of welcoming People newcomers into the county and all of the great work that's been doing out there Is there any concern that that good will? Uh, you know might be Falling off in terms of those that that are prepared to get involved because there's a bit of a pushback at the moment Of course the the refugee crisis is being Uh, you know associated with the housing crises and what have you you know, uh, are you concerned that that that that sort of the negative anti-refugee Comments and some of the actions that we're seeing z's being painted on on on roads and stuff I'm sure that would fall under the sombrella are you concerned then that people might Think that it's a toxic environment to get involved in and you might not have quite as many people Who are prepared to help and welcome refugees And not really not not what we're seeing we're seeing A lot of work being done around communities and particularly rural communities in in dunagore And we obviously recognize that there's high numbers of people moving to dunagore And and they should be met with with community infrastructure to support them And there is a housing crisis across the board and we recognize that And we know that the services and particularly in rural areas are particularly stretched in dunagore Have been for some time, but what this event is about really it's not about The state providing accommodation. It's really about irish welcome And celebrating the irish welcome and we know that people are stepping up and we know that we want to support them And and we want to encourage others and particularly people that are you know, making the really Really profound commitment to actually share their home And and we know as I said, we know that there's a lot of numbers of people being transferred transferred By the state to dunagore. We want to support local efforts And so this event is it's not so much about And the overall picture it's about how we can support locally And we want to make sure the hosts feel supported while they accommodate people that they don't feel like they're doing it alone Okay, well with that in mind then sorry, what what kind of then supports Can you will do you offer them? Yes, so we're going to have a panel of experts there. Um, as I said from local agencies as well as from including the the intercultural platform the local development company in dunagore all to the right right cross and grassroots organizations like helping irish hosts that have sprung up since ukraine And we have experts in the room which will cover topics like safeguarding understanding how you can manage the relationship And understanding the legal basis of hosting arrangements and sharing your home Looking at and recognizing trauma potential trauma and self-care And then also some of the state supports that are there recognition payments And and things like that. So we'll go through a lot of those and we'll also have a chance to hear from local hosts about a particular local host who will Make an appearance and I suppose tell us about their experience and also Refugees and will be there to actually Ukrainian refugee were there to share their experience about finding a safe home with a dunagore family So there'll be a lot lot covered And in the in the event we really encourage people to come along who are interested or who are currently working to support refugees And and we'll hopefully just see you there. All right, and this is a scheme that's already Been seen in other parts of the country. So you're not reinventing the wheel here. You know what works You know what needs to be talked about and how people can be helped We're not reinventing the wheel. This has been Part of the the picture of accommodating refugees really for for 10 years over 10 years since the syrian crisis I suppose the scale of it is is much bigger this year But we have got a lot of expertise and learnings from the community sponsorship program around welcoming supporting refugees and knowing what you're getting into understanding What you can do what you can't do Where are the the state supports where As I said, you shouldn't feel like you're doing this alone And and so we will provide a lot of guidance around that for the event, but it's really about celebrating And supporting hosts out there and people that are sharing their home and encouraging others to do So we've seen great results in this in this way where people really understand what the refugee process is like As opposed to just Seeing it on the tv, you know, yeah, I get you. Okay. Um, now the event is on Thursday the 20th that's the day after tomorrow It's at 7 p.m. In the colab seminar room in a to letter kenny and people can just roll up on on on the evening Or do you need pre-registration driver? And we're encouraging people to register and we've already got quite a few registrations And there's an event bright link, but you can you can turn up on the night You'd be very welcome. There'll be tea and coffee and biscuits. It's a two-hour event And we hope that you'll find it really useful and we encourage anyone that's interested to come along Yeah, and that could be people who aren't currently hosting refugees but want to know Some information about doing so as well. So that's pretty, you know, that is a potential host families also Yeah, exactly. We have um the helping Irish hosts People will be there and we'll be hoping to sign people up and to give them Basically a roadmap of how it will work And so we're looking to recruit more people that we're are interested in doing this As I said, we see great results in it and it it's really avoiding That kind of institutional living which we know in Ireland doesn't doesn't work. So Community welcome works and that's what we're trying to encourage and just to clarify you have already twice I believe it's not related to the state provided accommodation or commercial interests It's to support hosts in the community to uh willing to accommodate refugees temporarily in their homes There's a great deal of people out there in the context of us regularly that have concerns about how Some some refugees are being housed the amount of people per room. What kind of facilities available to them? You know, there's a genuine Humanitarian concern amongst the the public. I know your focus is on, you know, the community sponsorship development But is that something that you can talk about or talk to? I know the refugee council has released statements in the last couple of weeks But you know, what what can you say to people who are concerned? You know of the for the welfare of of the refugees Yeah, absolutely. I mean we're we're uh Our obviously there's a major housing crisis across the board And we have a situation where the kind of standards have dropped And we recognize that and we see that we this week released a report We're advocating for to the government for increased standards all the time And our proposed solutions to this are are contained in our accommodating creation our accommodation crisis report Which has been published recently I'd encourage you to To have a look at that And but as I said the focus of the event won't be on commercial game. I understand. Yeah, it won't be That's why I clarified that before he asked you that final question because I don't want to conflate or or I wanted the people that this is for to attend. Okay, Trevor. Thanks for your time this morning. I appreciate it Thanks, great. Bye. Bye. Take care of yourself. All right. That is uh, Trevor Kappel Community sponsorship development officer with the irish refugee council We're gonna head to news now the nine till noon show is brought to you by green shoes at letter Kenny shopping center market square in falcara with a new range of great autumn winter footwear now in stock Also online at green shoes dot com Wet suit on and underwater by a Aprons on breakfast orders in conversation flowing loving every second Every day is different. There's always new faces. 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It'll become breezy later with moderate east to south east winds increasing fresh to strong highest temperatures today of uh 12 To 14 degrees rain will develop overnight and turn heavy with a risk of flooding by morning lowest temperatures of seven to nine Degrees with uh fresh to strong breezes. Okay. It is 11 o'clock. So let's get a news update time We say good morning now to mckayla clark Thanks, great. Good morning. Gardy have renewed their appeal for information on a fatal crash in carry garth last week jimis rogers who was in his forties was the sole occupant of the vehicle involved in the collision Just before 8 a.m. On friday last he died as a result of his injuries Retained door-to-door inquiries are continuing increase law. Gardy are expected to continue their inquiries in the area over the coming weeks As part of investigations into the explosion on friday, october the 14th The road through the village is expected to remain closed for a number of weeks yet The finance minister says he's bringing changes to the proposed concrete block at levy to cabinet this morning The charge on concrete products has been heavily opposed by the construction sector since it was announced a bunch of day The construction industry federation says building levies to fund the micro redress scheme should be aimed at manufacturers A review into the junior cert exam process will be undertaken by the department of education It comes as fourth-year students were told today they'd received their marks on the 23rd of november five months after they sat their exams Armed guardy are stationed outside the criminal courts of justice complex where the trial of jerry the monk Hodge is due to get underway shortly following an unsuccessful legal challenge to help his key is heard before a jury His murder trial will be heard before the non-jury special criminal court Investigations are continuing into a number of alleged assaults in burnt foot A number of men are believed to have been involved in an incident in the car park of a closed licensed premises at sappa on thirsty last at 10 p.m Gardy meanwhile are in the hunt for three people seen fleeing the scene of a criminal damage incident in letter kenny On sunday last at around 1 20 a.m Damage was caused to the driver side window and rear passenger window of a car park in the meadowbank park area And guardian dunigol are reminding people of the consequences of igniting an illegal firework Throwing an ignited firework at a person or property and possessing illegal fireworks with intent to sell or supply It's after fireworks were reported to have been thrown at a property in bonk rana in the early hours of saturday morning last The windscreen of a car parked at the property was smashed as a result Those are the latest headlines. We'll be back with an update again at 12 o'clock. Okay. Mikaela. Thank you Quilture cares for arlands forest sustainably as our country seeks to combat climate change We'll do more our ambition is to create new forests manage our existing forests for greater carbon capture And provide more habitats to enhance biodiversity We'll support creating new homes by delivering sustainable irish wood products And we'll increase the number of beautiful forest recreation spaces for everyone to enjoy Quilture forests for climate nature wood and people for a greener future for all Okay, you're welcome back coming up in this hour. We'll be joined by a representative from the red cross There has been a remarkable response Uh from people in dunigol in arland across the world to the awful crucible tragedy A massive amount of money has been raised And a lot of people want to know how that would be administered And as much as decided now and has been agreed now We'll get clarification not clarification. There's no controversies such We'll get that information from the red cross that you know Where your money's going and how it will be spent if you were one of those that donated to your post office or Or what have you? Okay, let's go back to the issue of defective concrete blocks. Joseph is with us. Hi, joseph Hello Uh, how are you getting on now joseph come here? I mean you have an insight don't you really into regulation and I suppose regulation in arland compared to the likes of, uh, britain That's that's right joe. Uh, uh, great. Sorry. Um, I worked in England in 1962 for won't be there a concrete construction group and the Their main thing was bulking houses pure concrete and every every day after Uh, my day is only you took away a sample of the concrete for testing So sorry that was that was that was done that was done every day Every day it took away a sample and for testing 1962 Wow, and that was to test the the the composition presumably of the concrete to make sure what minerals should be there or there And what aren't aren't there really that was that some level of oversight, isn't it? That's impressive Oh, that that's that's that's 60 years ago So I don't know how long that's gone on for could there be a couple of hundred years ago I was talking to a guy there from north around there. He works for us for him. There's a last year and also and I think it was mad mad northern and they do concrete Concrete works and send away all these Expo to England all this Products to do, you know, but they got word back last year That uh, it won't take enough in from Republic of Ireland or northern Ireland because there's no regulation Oh, they weren't happy with the regulation presumed. No, I wouldn't take no wouldn't accept no contact from none of them That's no regulation northern or the Republic of Ireland. Yeah, but we have listened to your experts here Yeah, they're on saying this now And they were talking about this that another and Canada and Al Lopez. You know, all they got to do is Get in contact with England who have hundreds of years of experience of that of concrete products You know The meeting in the side is still all talking this another Just a phone and getting contact with English who are very experienced in it, you know You see the problem is is they the people that we were speaking to earlier They know all of what you're talking about and they are amongst those that are campaigning for regulation here I mean, I asked the housing minister Dara O'Brien on this program Can he guarantee us that defective blocks aren't be produced in quarries right now? And and and the answer was pretty much, you know I was speaking to another person involved in the in in the industry That represents the industry and asked him if he was building his own house now And they had the choice of sourcing materials from donna gall or gallway Which would he choose and he said gallway, you know, so We're still not there obviously in terms of people having faith in the oversight of what's being produced right now Sorry, great Sorry, I did up you. I just wonder what kind of you take them from because there's no regulation in any county. Yes. I understand. Yeah, I do Unless you get the experts England is only a phone call away and the talk about canada and all these other countries They were hundreds of years into this concrete products and bugging all these concrete houses. They're doing for hundreds of years I mean, there's no no I don't have no regulation yet. Just go on for another 50 years. No regulation Would you build a concrete block house now if you Had the you know, if you were looking for a new place to live, would you build it with irish concrete blocks joseph? No, no, nothing rather than I learned all over there. No way. There's no regulation It's just part of luck Greg, you know You're getting away with it because there's no regulation. It's just you're lucky. It's probably soft rock Is the cause of it, you know Do you see years ago When this firm and they shown was doing concrete and They had hard concrete. They had hard rock No, yeah, probably a softer rock. I have no expert knock on you. I think could be softer rock because of it But I mean I suppose regardless of what raw materials you're using if there's proper testing of the blocks afterwards It would give you some idea of their their strength. I was talking to someone not so long ago And I'm not saying where the blocks came from Uh, but it was a person that was working with the blocks and and they said they were like butter Um, but anyway, uh, you would hope that something is being done to stop this happening again into the future But joseph, thanks for your insight. That was 62 hard to work out But that was almost 60 years ago That 60 years was shattered concrete was being tested daily to ensure that it was of a standard Well, I just just to I wanted I didn't explain to you but northern learning People are getting conquered northern learning think it's okay, but it's not there's no regulation or either Well, I don't know the ins and outs of that, but that's your review and joseph Thanks for sharing it with us today. Oh wait six 60 25 thousand the whatsapp and text number there Who in these days can afford to throw good food at cars? I know what you're saying, but There's lots of people buying lots of different stuff And they might not see a carton of eggs as a or maybe they've found them or they've nicked them out of their parents fridge Who's to say Greg the people selling these cars should make the person buying the vehicle aware what all the switches are for I get you but you know like I try and talk about my real lived world experience. Okay, and I've always struggled Uh, up until relatively recently to determine the difference in a split second You know once you're driving and you lean over to do it because sometimes you leave and there's no fog Right and as you travel that becomes fog sometimes I've struggled to make out which of these two buttons is for the front facing fog lights And which is for the rear and what's the car corresponding color on the dashboard And do you know what I could probably be told it 10 times Well, unless the icons were a bit clearer to me and I'm just being honest as I try and be as much as I can uh, I Have to think twice as to was that the front ones or is that on or is that awful? Where's the light for or what have you all right, but as I say that is just me The taxes on diesel is higher. They're effectively pricing diesel out of the market You want they want you to get an electric car or a hybrid car? They're going to ban petrol diesel cars by the year 2030 the new production of them Hybrid cars will be bound by 2035 They're anticipating around 800 million electric vehicles will be in production by then and look at You know the companies themselves. There's more hybrid electric cars now being sold than diesel and petrol I believe that's the case. Um, so the companies themselves are not going to continue to produce You know diesel cars for much longer. Are they an oval were amongst some of the first to stop the production of diesel cars? Um, I can't understand why the government has decided to pay the electricity allowance of 600 euro to owners of holiday homes I can tell you why because and this is the argument the government made um, if they were to try and come up with a system whereby I think the cost is is 27 million is it 27 million? They say that It would cost more and it would delay the process if they tried to figure out a way of excluding holiday homes. That was Effectively what I heard Amon Ryan say if you know, it's not perfect But we're going to take the 27 million euro hit because it means we can get this scheme Implemented and it means we don't have to work out an expensive alternative But anyway, the caller then goes on to say their annual bill probably won't be much more I expect they will also pay holiday home owners who haven't paid their second home property tax Another case of the government looking after the rich. Some of us are lucky to have even one home. Yeah, indeed But I think that's the the argument that's being made Could anyone tell us what nationality are the people who moved in to accommodation in my area? As they don't appear to be from Ukraine. So we're accepting mass amounts from other countries too Why electric companies making us pay a standing charge? What's the purpose of it? Surely they're making enough huge profits without a standing charge They increased the standing charge recently Looking at diesel prices from donagol to gallway last thursday saw the liter prices from 206.9 To low of 191.9 in mayo. Look at, you know, whatever. I'm not trying to justify the prices but It'll be probably 206.9 in mayo soon. It depends when it's brought in, you know, some of the The the cheaper Some of the cheaper suppliers say for instance around donagol their prices have gone up Over two euro wise some of the more expensive ones are still at like 198 Right, but I imagine the cheaper ones are selling more product And it's what they buy it at and they probably got a delivery more recently And they had to factor in the increased cost to they and those that were perhaps ordinarily more expensive They still have stock of the cheaper diesel, but I imagine their prices will be going up As well. I don't think routinely anymore that you're going to save 14 cent per liter between counties I just don't I just don't know if that's the case any longer But it just depends when they get their most recent deliveries and at what price seems to determine the price that we pay Excuse me the time that we we pay Price we pay. All right. So finally some um, good news Belated good news We know now when many of you out there are going to be getting your junior cert results We're going to be telling you about that and talking about that after these the nine till noon show Is brought to you by green shoes at letter candy shopping center Market square in falcara with a new range of great autumn winter footwear now in stock also online at green shoes dot com Have you bought your ncbi radio bingo book yet? Contribute to this fantastic charity and begin with a chance to win daily cash prizes of 400 euro books are now available from your local retailer Your next move matters. 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I would know more about The um exam results and the date that was coming the dates they were coming out But unfortunately we've kind of been left in the dark with it until today And this has had a big impact on on many groups But i'm thinking those may be who switched transition year and wanted to find out How they found in certain subjects they could work with their career guidance teacher and see where they're going Others that needed those results for Um, you know apprenticeships or what have you but also, uh respect for the students who put in all the effort And wanted to know how they got on Exactly, I mean everybody put in so much effort I can know from you know, my friends and experience that I've had We put in so much work, especially because of covet because we went into lockdown when we were all in first year So a lot of our theory and everything we had to learn was done by ourselves But especially for those who are in fifth year now and did skip transition year They have found that they've come to me and uh, discussed how difficult it was and Because they don't know what they got in their exams So they couldn't associate that with their subject choices And they're kind of left once again in the dark without knowing what their best thoughts or what their weaknesses are Yeah, exactly. And as I said, it's just a sense of feeling That you're that you're important, you know what I mean like and I think a lot of um And let's not forget to They're behind, you know, you're heading into what's the biggest exam of your life. I'm sure the leaving cert but for a lot of Students the junior cert the junior cycle was one of the biggest things in their life for many people They've been building themselves up to it. Uh, you know doing their best to do as best as they can And then for this period of time afterwards, you know, it makes you feel like well, you know, am I not important? And I think I mentioned that already, but we have a date now november 23rd. It's not ideal, but it's a date ellen Yeah, of course. I mean it's better late than ever, but still there's There's been outrage really with all the students because it has made everybody feel like we're unnoticed Because we just haven't known anything nothing has been told to anyone But it's good that we have a final date now to kind of You know ballpark it see How we got on but a lot of people are still very obsessed, but it is so late Yeah, exactly. And we'd hope that this is the last year of this that that it's not allowed to happen again Whatever reform is required. There's a lot of people getting paid an awful lot of money To to try and organize this better and we hope they They do that don't we ellen for the for the generations to follow you guys Yes, of course I mean I hope for next year. Well this year's third years that they have the results You know a long time before we did a long time before november just for them themselves And it's been so long since we stopped the exam that most people can't even remember what they think went well for them Or what didn't it's just been that long I wouldn't want this to happen to anyone else. Yeah, for sure ellen. Thank you. Are you enjoying transition year so far? Of course, obviously. Oh, yeah, it's amazing Yeah, I definitely recommend it to anyone For sure. All right ellen take care of yourself. Thanks for your time today. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much indeed now Someone asked me what was the delay on social media? and I Just about to come on air and I said it's because the weren't the teachers didn't want to do it Well, lo and behold that angered an awful lot of people that I was stirring the pot that it wasn't much more I know that we discuss it all the time in this program um a fantastic example shown in some of the comments certainly the comments I received privately anyway, hope they're not teachers anyway and I hope they don't sort of Teach students that this is how to respond. I would have used it as an opportunity actually to educate people The fact but the reality is is there has been a historically shortage of teachers and I know find well the reasons why I support teachers And that is because a lot of them Were messed about with how it was being scheduled Others because of the way the system is set up, you know teachers are just like us. They've got students going on to third level And what have you? You know, they're they're maybe applying for Susie grants The money that they can earn to do this to do the state of favor for example Can push them over certain limits and they can lose they can lose They can lose Susie grants and other benefits. I know all that. I thought I think that most people understand that It's up to teachers to decide what they do. It's not part of the job. Is it So I I can understand why teachers would be on edge and would have the response some of them that they did But you know at the end of the day, um, I think these are opportunities to get the message out there Rather than sort of go into attack mode But be that as it may The department of education the powers that they are going to have to come up with a system whereby Teachers are encouraged because they feel that they're the work they're doing in marking these exams And there are others that do it that aren't teachers by the way But they feel that their their their work is appreciated in terms of Finding a way to do it whereby they don't lose out in other areas if they do it But they're not messed about um either because they have worked all year and um Probably a glad of the break. There's nothing compelled teacher to do his farms. I'm as far as I'm aware Right, uh, okay 08 660 25 000 that is the whatsapp and text number 08 660 25 000 or give us a call on 07 4 9 1 25 000 07 4 9 1 25 000 Any idea how long it takes to get a street light fixed ask the caller it is not included in my property tax No, it's not at all at all street lights been out for six weeks. I've been phoning every week since it's gone out I'm told that we will be getting someone out to fix it. It's getting dark and we're worried about being targeted at halloween Would you tell us More precisely Where that is all right, you tune to the 9 till noon show here in Highland radio with me greg hues And I hope now we can welcome on to the program liam oduyre secretary General of the red cross Good morning to you liam. Can you hear me? Okay? Yeah, indeed. I can. Good morning to you as well. It's good to have you on the program liam. Thanks for joining us Okay, so we're talking now about the creeslark community support fund Tell us about this fund when it was when it was established We know why of course it was established and um, how successful it's been as a fundraiser Um, well, we we initiated the fund um, just over a week ago um in cooperation with on post and with apple green and uh, the fund Has been very successful to date that there's either already in our pledges made of at this stage 1.1 million um euros so um That no doubt will grow over a period of time We've been very fortunate with the general public contributing and then Considerable number of companies have also stepped in and indeed local companies like optum Who have contributed because as they would say their their their employees would know so many people who are involved in this this awful tragedy So that's that's the situation at the moment Our members on the ground Have begun some emergency distribution of funds at this stage and they're dealing with the the relatives on a On a one by one basis and they're they're making some offering some assistance And then we are going to begin later in the week A consultation process then with the relevant statutory agencies and local bodies and indeed the relatives as to What about the short and medium term distribution of the funds? um now anyone who donated to this fund This is ring fenced to deal with in its entirety to deal with decrease of tragedy Absolutely. Yes. That's in all of the funds. That's precisely where they're going When you talk of working with statutory bodies Who are you talking about there like can people be assured that money will not be Used from this fund that might maybe have otherwise come out of Council budgets for example Well, I I think people can be assured of that I mean what the red cross wants to do is it wants to be sure that it's aware Prior to any of the more substantial distribution of funds What other people are doing in other words what the statutory bodies are are doing themselves So that there's so that we're not working across purposes ultimately And then obviously we want to sit down with the relatives themselves and get a sense of How they would like to see the funds Distributed and over what period of time because obviously for some people they'd be very much a long term So we want to just put all of that down on paper have a consultation exercise And then we'll be able to to there So what level of input then will the Chrysler community have in relation to this? I mean who is Ultimately going to decide To whom and how much of this money is is given Well that obviously would be a matter for the the people we consult with that's why we're going to consult We consult with the relatives. We consult with community leaders As well. So it won't just be a decision that the red cross will take it will do so in consultation with others That's the that's how we would operate. Yeah, and and so who would determine how much goes to eat each individual And I'm only asking because this is you know, you know money that the public have entrusted in the red cross To to make sure it helps people to a maximum. So I'm asking, you know, who determines Who gets what and how much? Well, that's part of the that's part of the process. I I don't mean to be evasive and I'm not trying to be evasive about it We want to hear what people think first of all That's the first part of call. Obviously the money has been given to the red cross to utilize And with for the relatives and for the victims etc increase that So from that point of view, we know where the money is going We have our responsibility ourselves to account for that money So in the end we have to account for that and that has to be very transparent So but the first part of call is always to hear what other people think And particularly the people on the ground and particularly the people who are affected. So we need to we we need to take Take that consultation exercise first And when will that begin and and how are you talking at a town hall meeting? Are you talking individual meetings with with with families We're talking but generally trying to bring groups of people together. We began that work this morning and we've looked for I suppose the the organizations and names and addresses etc So over the next day or two, we'll try to pull that together and arrange a meeting if we can by this week because You know, there's there's some degree of urgency about all of this That said, I'd have to say our own members on the ground have been fantastic They know Pete. They know everybody obviously because that's that's where they're from And they've already been in touch with people to assist with immediate emergency needs Can you give us some example of those? Well, actually, maybe we'll leave that to one side because it could be could be personal to each individual So we'll we'll move past that one. But if someone Needs help and they believe they they might qualify for help and maybe They've been overlooked or or or or haven't been accounted for Can they make contact with the Red Cross? Absolutely. They can contact us here So info at redcross.ie And we'd be we immediately will put them in touch with the relevant person In donnie gall and can you give us some examples as as to what kind of assistance can be given? I mean, I think there's some maybe obvious ones. Maybe, you know, maybe expenses funeral expenses Or medical treatment or what have you but can you give us some other examples? Just to make sure that anyone who might be listening that could avail of this Does avail of it Lee and that's the motivation for the question Well, I think some people have already approached just I think around travel and around accommodation And we're expecting I suppose there will be loss of earnings as well. So there's a variety of Expenses that people that relatives are going to have to meet and I think I think it all also this is always done Sitting down with somebody. This isn't something that you just jot down a paper and send off This is about someone who who knows the situation there Not some faceless person up here in Dublin So and I think that's important. Yeah, okay. And just in terms of its administration The Red Cross covered that don't they the administration doesn't come from the fund itself That's that that's already part of the the structure of the Red Cross On this occasion. Yes, generally when we raise funds We would always have an administration A small administration charge that which is vital in this case. No, yeah And and I hope you just we would deline a question and I hope it's clear to you as you can imagine You know, lots of people have lots of different questions for all different reasons some insensitive perhaps at certain times and others But I just want to get the facts from you out there and that was my motivation rather than People speculating as to what's going on. Do you understand? I hope you understand that Liam Oh, I do. Yeah. Yeah. Is there anything you want to add? No, I Think not I think over the next few days the consultation process will begin And on the basis of that process we will be in a position probably early next week then to set out Uh, how the how without the fund will be distributed and the mechanics for it But at the moment, I I think what we're doing is we're just making certain that anybody who has emergency needs That those emergency needs are being met and very finely I know you've got you mentioned you've got your teams on the ground and what have you but there are other Organizations, maybe such as same Vincent de Paul Do you normally or do you work with the likes of of same Vincent de Paul or On the ground organizations To to maybe you know filter some of this through they them or do you have everything you need within the Red Cross if that makes sense Um, well, we would always link in so when I'm talking about consultation I'm clearly talking about There are statutory agencies like the hse and the department of social welfare whom we would want to meet and discuss with Equally, uh, there will be voluntary organizations and community development organizations We have a very good relationship with the society of same Vincent de Paul And we obviously will will discuss the matter with them and seek their advice as well As well as other local organizations In in and around chrisla who who would have on the ground experience Um, but I I think with the fund itself the fund is uh will be managed by the the Red Cross And distributed in the in whatever manner that we agree After the consultation process. Okay, and people can still, um, donate of course Red cross dot ie is the research function on that website People put increase that and they'll be brought to that and it's very important that people donate through official channels as well Because unfortunately there's some scrupulous people out there that will Use events like this to try and defraud people So best to go through the direct channel such as red cross dot ie and then search within that website for The chrisla tragedy. Thanks for your time this morning Okay, you're very welcome. Okay. Thank you. 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It's near the tax office there So just be careful on your approaches there We want to make sure too that there isn't you know a subsequent Incident there a lot of people doing newies there apparently, so be careful Big thanks to jimmy buckley says a listener And for the st. Vincent de paul in sligo They held an event in torremellina's is it and they raised four and a half grand for victims of the creaslight charity And we played jimmy earlier by coincidence, of course, right Let us speak now to uh sarah sarah. Good morning to you Good morning. Thanks for joining us sarah. Now you are uh another one of our listeners Who is concerned about the digitalization of Booking tickets for bosses and it's not just bosses We heard from a caller before about football matches having to get pay pay online and all that type of stuff But we're going to focus on boss tickets for the time being. What's your experience and concern sarah? Now if you need if you need to go to dublin now, you can't just go and stand at the bus stop and Go on the bus I'm talking I'm talking basically for old age pensioners who have bus passes So you went in you handed your bus pass to the Conductor or to the bus driver and you got to your destination now You've got to book online the day before If you're going somewhere So you can't make up in the morning that you're going to go to dublin You can't actually book any other way except online Now a lot of old age pensioners cannot do online Now I have interviewed seven people that are in their 80s like myself in different counties in ireland And I've had all kinds of responses But none of every single one of them had to get somebody to book The boss for them. They couldn't do it themselves And they have to get somebody in their family or else a neighbor now just in if you haven't got a family living near you And that is the state of affairs for older people at the moment And it came in very very quietly nearly sneakily You'd know it was never announced that this was going to happen And the first time that I had the experience of it. I Rang a local private operator to go to Galway I was talking to the person in the office But she couldn't book the bus for me And I had to actually ask a neighbor to do it for me because I have no family living near me Now this is affecting older people terribly Now I'll tell you also to from from your experience and from what you've telling told us It's also robbing people. I think of sort of well spontaneity, but also independence to some extent because you would Almost at the drop with a hat got up took an ocean hopped on the bus maybe headed to Dublin You had that freedom. You had that independence you retain obviously your your Independence to a great degree, but then having to ask someone else to book a ticket to having to plan it You know what I mean? That's that's a big change for you. You've been disadvantaged greatly there. I think Yes, absolutely because I could go on the bus the bus has quite I have a bus stop very very near me I can I can go on the bus to Dublin at the drop of a hat I never had to plan what time I went because I went whenever I was ready On whichever bus was coming after that I could go to Gotthorpe or Guido I didn't have to plan when I was going And as well as that to very Awkward a lot of people just don't want to say like I'm going somewhere If I'm going to Dallaba Faye from Lifford and I asked my neighbor to book the bus for me They're going to say I'm going up. I'll give you a lift You know you put other people in a kind of a bad position as well as that Who else books for you on their phone if you don't have I don't have a smartphone if you don't have a smartphone you cannot actually book The person who has the smartphone, which is usually my neighbor Has to actually pay that two pound because they don't take my bank account from her phone She has to have some facility on her phone to pay that So it's not free transport any longer. Anyway, is it because there's a no, no, no, it's not a two-year-old levy Also, too What worries me about this because I think this was snuck in with cove would personally speaking but what What worries me about this? Sarah I remember a couple of years ago There was this conversation that was being have had on a national program about you know lack of availability on bosses And you know people were coming on and saying oh well sure it's people with free travel Sure, they just get up on they just get on the boss and you know They're it's almost like a social item for them and what i'm trying to get at is they were critical of Seats being taken up on bosses, right because I remember someone was suggesting that Old age pensioners should only be able to travel on bosses at certain times to leave the space for other people And you just wonder you just wonder if part of this is to discourage you sarah from getting on a boss There's no you know to try and leave space for other people It seems to be I mean that's horrendous one thing that the online companies must be making a lot of money on it as well Oh, why Of course they are and don't forget at some some old age pensioners and this is why this is why all this was brought in To enable old age pensioners to visit their families In in different places And in the country this is why it was brought in in the first place to help us to keep us Sort of uh, allow you to longer and to keep us active longer and to keep us healthy longer And why they have just done away with it all because you do not go I don't go on the bus hardly at all now one of the things that I I was going to say I was talking to I one of the people that I interviewed was in awfully And she went every day to her Son or her daughter who lived somewhere? I don't know what kind of day, but she was able to get a bus direct from quite near her to quite near there and she Wanted to go one day and she had to actually bring her daughter in japan To book the ticket for her Now that sounds ludicrous That you can't go from letter candy to livered On the bus without booking it is is this becoming uh, you know that old Clint Eastwood film no country for old man Is this becoming a no country for old people because when you see now the priority in terms of their care older people's care In how they're treated in eds for example the likes of this Older people not being able to pay for at football games as I mentioned earlier with cash post offices closing, you know cash generally being Removed from society, you know death by a thousand cuts And then you sort of get this narrative on some radio stations I've listened to where it's well, why should young people pay for all people's pensions You know pitching the young against the older And I've spoken to older people too that have been left feeling like there's some sort of a burden on society Even though this society is built on their shoulders. I've said in the past Is it becoming then a country a no country for old people? It's a problem people are getting older It's a problem that people are are are are older and healthy and want to go and visit family Do you know what I mean? That's how it feels to me. Anyway, uh, I that's how it feels That's how it feels. I don't feel that obviously. I think that's clear, uh, sarah But it feels like that's the way society is going Yeah, but even if you didn't have a free bus pass even that that's that is a you know a great facility that we have But even if we didn't have it And you're going to pay you still have to go online Now I couldn't make up my mind Tonight when I'm going to bed, oh, I get up in the morning and I go to Dublin which I would have done very much so in the past And there's a pile of people like me most of the people that people that I speak to feel exactly the same But they have to get their children or their neighbors or whoever if you have children living near you're okay And you're not okay because you shouldn't have to ask your children to book the bus for you And there's another thing too, sir. If you don't mind me adding to we all have a financial tipping point There comes a point in our expenditure versus our income where we have to make a decision And I have no doubt that there are older people that that two euro charge Uh that you don't it's only a digital transaction You don't have to pay two euro every time you buy a loaf of bread with your card in a shop So it's a load of crap as far as I'm concerned pardon my language Sarah But yeah, yeah that that there are going to be people that that two euro is their tipping point and they won't get on the bus They won't book that ticket and once you stop doing it you stop doing it Don't you you you get out of the habit you no longer ride the bus is any longer That's what worries me as as well as that maybe the technical issues But the fact that this could be the tipping point that stops people traveling to see their loved ones And then obviously maybe in other areas of the life they might begin to regress We don't want a country like that Sarah do we No, but I do know I actually one of the people that I interviewed again It told me that she went from one point to the other uh on a bus about three times a week Like she had three daughters. She went to the three of them Like every week that is now costing her six pound extra That's a lot of money. That's uh, that's uh, uh, you know, then you multiply it by four weeks And then and then maybe if there were two other journeys she might make You know what I mean? That is exactly the scenario I'm talking about you would then have to start thinking Can I afford to go and see my family? Can I afford that independence? A person in charge of cie or in charge of whoever brought this in Like I would like to know was that the half did you have to get permission to do this or like Is there any government body that is in charge of this or you know I have a sense who decided who decided that this was going to be the case Well, obviously those who want to make the most most money because Obviously through covet everyone had to book seats. This is a problem They probably wanted to fix and they've used this as an opportunity to do so and once it's done It's not going to be on don seemingly and and that's that's the You know, that's I I think that's just how it seems Sarah. Maybe that is the way it is. Maybe it is what it seems Yeah, and you can boss or you can actually book the bus apparently In the office in latter Kenny I was in letter Kenny three times at that. Well On three occasions. I went into the office in letter Kenny the cie office And there was nobody there. It wasn't open Here's another scenario as well Here's another scenario to uh, Sarah someone had to book a listen. I had to book a treatment A trip to Dublin for medical treatment on the boss, okay And they had to get another person to book their ticket now I think a quite a natural conversation in that scenario. Would you mind booking me my ticket? No problem Where are you going Dublin? Oh, that's lovely. What are you heading down there shopping? You know where then that person might feel they have to share Private information that they wouldn't ordinarily have to you know, so that's another element That's another element of it and can Anne join the conversation. She can and good morning to you Good morning, Greg. How are you? I'm good. Do you want to add to this conversation? Well, I do um My husband is going for a hip replacement operation And I was looking for some support from the hse for his recovery He was told by his surgeon that he would need to go in for respite maybe for a few weeks But he doesn't want to do that So I started to do some research and and ask around to see what was available and I came across this grit Integrated care team Which is uh on paper a fantastic idea They come out to the person who's had the surgery the older person they they they get them up in the morning They get them dressed They look about their medications. They do a lot of work with them and they're there for six weeks This is on paper to help the person recover from the surgery in their own home But then when I made contact with the integrated care team And I spoke to the girls. I assume she's a nurse. I assume she is She told me when I said this is great, you know, you're going to get them up in the morning She said no, we don't do any of that. We don't do any of that at all. She said She says we do some exercises with the person To help them get them back up on their feet. But that is all we do A little bit of rehab then so what about all the other stuff? That the integrated team supposed to did she say or did they say Where is this other stuff on paper? Is there cuts or what's going on? Ann Well, I I didn't like to argue with her What I had on paper was was a lot of things That would be absolutely fantastic for an older person having surgery trying to recover from surgery And you have great difficulty when you have replacement getting dressed putting on socks and shoes No, they just probably do some exercises with the person And so what's on paper does not exist in reality in my experience And of course that um speeds up recovery Presumably it would help prevent, you know, any any any complications that might require a hospital visit In some cases it's it's going to free up a hospital bed quicker It makes a lot of sense and you must have been very disappointed when what you thought was right This is brilliant get the operation done get him back on his feet And recovered quickly and then as it turns out what was on paper was not in reality Well, this is what I was so confused about and and disappointed and I feel a little bit angry as well And then I get the impression that's not in your nature either and I've You know, I don't think you're an angry person by the sounds of well Well, I I just you know, it's very frustrating to see something on paper and then go and investigate it And you're you're really excited about it. You're happy about it And you're thinking this is going to be wonderful. It'll be back up on his feet You know, and it'll be a great support mechanism Especially for an older person And then when you talk to the people who are running the integrated care team They tell you that no, we don't do that. We don't do that. We don't do that They seem to be just maybe would come to your home And if the person was already up maybe walk them, you know Get them to walk up and down the corridor or something like that That seemed to be all that came back to me that they were doing Also, I looked for home help too And I was told that we weren't entitled to any kind of home help because home help is a long term thing It doesn't exist for two months or something like that for you to get a person back up on their feet again Very disappointing. I think there's a lot of things. I thought there's a lot of things on the internet about What services for old people, but I don't think they exist in reality All right, it's a it's a decent insight and listen. Thank you And I hope your other half is back and up and running as soon as possible and thank you and Sarah not directly connected, but again another perhaps example of this is no country for older people anymore Yes, yes, Sarah. Listen. Thanks for your uh raising of this issue. We're gonna use an opportunity to contact for sarin again Go ahead somebody will do something about that. Yeah, okay Have a lovely day Sarah. Take care of yourself. Thank you. Have a nice day. You too, Sarah. Take care. 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