 warned in a new report that will not be achieved unless there's a complete transformation of the planning system. The report published by Wind Energy Ireland also points out some progress has been made but it says existing strategies, plans and targets need to be stepped up. The report comes as Donegal County Council discusses for the restrictions to wind energy developments in the county development plan and opposition grows to a number of proposed wind farms in the county. Will the CEO of Wind Energy Ireland Noel Coneff says the pace of delivering sustainable energy projects is too slow. We're showing that hitting those targets, cutting our carbon emissions by 51 percent, it's just about possible but we're not moving fast enough so there's been some progress made but we need to do more. If we're able to prioritize renewable energy projects through our planning system to deliver them at a faster rate than we're currently doing then we can really start to become much more energy independent, much more in control of our energy bills and really start to drive down prices for consumers. Mainly dry today with some light rain at times, cloudy with some sunny spells developing particularly in the later afternoon, top temperatures 15 to 17 degrees celsius in west to northwest breezes, light to moderate in strength and that's how in radio news we're back with news again at 10 o'clock. You can choose between a book or toy. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal. Until the 2nd of August, subject to availability from 11 a.m. includes choice between book or toy but not a specific range or range item. Supply issues may arise. Check McDonald's.ie slash happy meal for changes. The 9 till noon show is brought to you in association with Florit Letterkenny, celebrating five years in business offering quality wooden floors at exceptional value. Visit florit.ie And now it's time for the top of the northwest, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning. It's great to be with you for another Tuesday this one the 5th of July 2022. It's five minutes past nine. How are you keeping? I hope you're very well indeed and hopefully we've got your company for the next three hours here on the 9 till noon show throughout the day here on your number one local radio station at Highland Radio. The airlines are open for you right now as you would expect. Donna-Marie and Emma taking your calls on 07491-25000. 07491-25000. Your WhatsApp syntax come through to us via 086625000. So you can choose to send an SMS as you traditionally would have or if you've got the WhatsApp app, send us a message that way. 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For you to catch up on by the way, in case you like to see local and national artists, but you missed it. So get on to our Facebook and YouTube pages and you can watch that. But please, wake up after we've finished. The Donegal Democrat this morning. Soldiers prepare for airport duties. Approximately 42 members of the Defence Force is attached to the 28th Infantry Battalion at Finna camp on Doran. Our undergoing preparatory work this week to help alleviate severe staffing issues that have been experienced at Dublin Airport in recent times. It follows on from a request by the Dublin Airport Authority to the government after chaotic scenes were witnessed at the airport as a result of staff shortages. More on that in the nationals. The Dairy Journal this morning. Stand with us as it's now or never. After years of campaigning, protests, pleading and work today and tomorrow will prove vital in the defective blocks campaign with one campaigner describing it as clusters last stand. Micah Action Group has also told Donegal County councillors to choose people or party in relation to the 80 amendments to the bill that will be debated at today's joint committee on housing. They've until 5pm today to submit a response. Campaigners have urged the government to allocate more time for today's debate which has been given just two hours on a 2.7 billion euro scheme and it does beg a belief doesn't it? It's not like we haven't been here before. All of this as I've said this I've been saying this for weeks and months. All of this feels very much like the lead up to the 9010 scheme that was never a 9010 scheme. When you are going to spend almost three billion and it's going to be more than three billion euro of taxpayers money on something especially something that's relatively complex and technical. Why would you rush it through? Why would you rush it through? Those that are affected by this are prepared to wait for the scheme to be correct for it to have the amendments that is required. Common sense amendments. Nothing crazy. No one's looking for anything else. I was looking at some of the coverage of this across the country and it's interesting to see how it's reported across the country. The narrative being that 420,000 euro is not enough for homeowners that they want more and it presumed that the 420,000 limit would provide 100% redress for most. It's simply not the case what homeowners want and we know but it doesn't seem the penny doesn't seem to have dropped elsewhere. What they want is a scheme that is fair and returns their house to similar to the way it was and you know what? They're prepared to downsize in some cases so as to be able to maximize the potential for that grant but the government at this point is saying no and as I say this multi-billion euro project that's going to run for potentially decades two hours. Now why what would be the motivation for allowing only two hours on a topic? They put it to bed this week. Summer recess. Get on with it. Public will not be interested generally speaking across the country and listening to us moaning up here in Donegal, albeit there's 32 other counties involved. Not hearing much out of them to be honest with you, particularly from what I want. I don't want to make a sweeping statement but I think maybe some of the media coverage could be improved to support homeowners in those counties but anyway it's an important couple of days. We'll be speaking about it over the next couple of days as you would imagine. Let's go on to the Irish Independent now. Record levels of government spending on tax cuts and welfare increases have been planned for the budget to address the worsening cost of living. The government's taking a two-pronged approach by introducing an immediate package of measures on budget day followed by tax reductions and increases to welfare payments such as the pension and job seekers allowance in the new year. In an unprecedented move a specific cost of living package will be unveiled on September 27, the new date for the budget announcements. This package will be separate to the budget itself and include a series of one-off measures paid for using tax surpluses mostly from high levels of corporation tax which were being told you shouldn't really be spending on everyday expenditure but that's what we're doing. The measure is expected to include a double welfare payment and a further electricity credit aimed to help those worst hit by historic inflation. Separately Finance Minister Pasquale Donahoe is to abandon his own budgetary restrictions to spend an additional $6.7 billion from state coffers on tax cuts and welfare rises. Now you'd swear the government published that on the front of that paper but there you go that's where we're at nowadays. I'm sure it's going to be scrutinised and challenged. The Irish Times today Irish health officials are concerned at the low uptake to date of second COVID-19 booster vaccines among at-risk groups with only half of those eligible having received an additional dose to date. A second booster shot or fourth dose is available to people aged 65 and older as well as the immunocompromised giving these groups are deemed to be more vulnerable to the disease. Fewer than a third of people who are immune compromised have received a second booster dose to date according to a senior health service executive figure. Now why have you not gone for your fourth dose? Is it that you had a reaction to the third? Is it that you feel you've run out of steam in terms of going for jabs? Why have you not? Maybe it's too complicated. Is it it's not accessible to you? Let us know. 08 660 25000 08 660 25000 or call us an 0749 125000. The Irish Daily Mirror today tells us that the dolls public spending watchdog has demanded that RTE drastically lower its dependency on state funding in a damning new report because what you can have as well to obviously RTE are supported by the government and we've talked about this before. They're all of your license fee money goes towards supporting RTE in its services but that leaves them then. They are also obviously operating in the commercial market in seeking ads and they are looking for a pie. There's a pie of money available for advertising in radio and newspapers and what have you and social media of course and RTE obviously are going to eat quite a lot of that pie because they're backed by the government and they can promote and plug and take adverts out and have breakfast shows where they give away 10,000 euro. You know that sort of way that's the kind of competitive advantage they have so they have the advantage in that all of your license fee money goes to them and second to that they also have an advantage in terms of advertising revenue because they obviously have a lot of the public interest broadcasting and so on and so forth so they get more of the advertising pie which leaves less for the likes of News Talk today and all the local and regional stations they don't get any license support and of course then you could argue they have a disadvantage as it relates to the license fee but that's the way it goes. You know they launch a new show they can pull 20 grand out of your license fee money and say you know there's our competition it's nice if you can do it isn't it but anyway buses at the national broadcaster have been given five months to come up with a plan to reduce its reliance on money from the extractor which rose by 18.3 million to 197.6 million between 2016 and 2020 almost 200 millions remarkable at the same time commercial revenue declined reducing from 158.2 million in 2016 to 134.5 million in 2020 so their income from ads fell by 23.7 million okay and that's across the board I presume a lot of media outlets are the same but they don't have the state support your license fee supporting them but anyway okay on to the Irish Daily Star the body representing military personnel will meet civil servants today to demand that soldiers be paid 104 euro extra for carrying out emergency security duties at Dublin Airport. The PDFORA and RACCO will meet officials from the Department of the Defence later today as dozens of soldiers spend another day being trained up in security duties to help out at the crisis ridden airport and that money should be coming from the airport and I believe it will come from the airport but they should be paid more money they're not free laboured they're an important group of individuals you just don't call the army when you want something done for free so they should be paid more money and hopefully they are and that money should be paid by the Dublin Airport Authority which I hope it will be. The Irish Sun a metro from Dublin I'm just reading this for those of you who sort of want the Twin Towns bypass or the Bonnegie link for Letter Kenney and you've been waiting for decades for it just to pee you off a little bit this morning. A metro from Dublin is set to cost an estimated 9.5 billion and it will be built by 2033. More than 250 million euro has already been spent on the underground railway project despite no construction beginning metro link preliminary approval will be given by senior ministers today and of course you know we have this policy of the Green Party policy of two-to-one spending on public transport versus roads well there's 9.5 sorted that leaves half of that then for roads and that leaves the likes of us there's more money than that though but that leaves the likes of us waiting for our basic infrastructural needs. And just don't forget by the way we had that railway expert last week that said Derry to Letter Kenney a railing just to get the ball rolling 320 million he estimated at 320 million and we have one project in Dublin which is probably needed but 9.5 billion okay and yet we still are on the hind-teat. Finally in the mirror Tshakmiha Martin said it is important no stone is left unturned in the probe to find Sophie Toscant the plantier's killer. Guardi last week announced its serious crime review team will re-examine the case of the brutal killing of the French filmmaker Sophie who was a 39-year-old mother of one was killed outside her holiday home in Timur near Skull in County Cork on December 23rd 1996. Mr Martin said he agrees with Goddard commissioner Drew Harris who said the review is not a futile exercise. He added I don't believe it is optics and knowing the commissioner as I do and Anji Okana this will be done professionally and objectively from a policing perspective and you can imagine that the Tshakmiha is under great pressure from the French president to make sure there is an outcome to that not to influence it on Julie or anything but you know that's just the way politics works. All right that's a run through the papers today back with our first guest on the show after we take a quick commercial break. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra mountaintop Letter Kenney. 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on travel for example in terms of airport staff baggage handling staff etc but also too that it is back putting pressure on our hospitals I'm sure that never really eased all told we're joined on the program now by Dr Dennis McCauley again just to run through where we're at and where we may be heading Dennis thanks very much for joining us I appreciate your time today good morning thank you great right okay I presume GPs across the county are seeing a pattern for an increase in cases is that the case yeah very very much so I think that the for a number of reasons really I think the the people I've sort of forgotten about about COVID they've sort of said it's over the right mixing more unfortunately also the new strain can reinfect you so there's more there's just more people for the new strain to work on because there's prior infection doesn't work and there's more people out I heard one of your colleagues down the country concerned that maybe what's driving get some of what we're seeing although it we're following a pattern seen across Europe at the moment is people not testing or not self-isolating when they have symptoms that they don't want the hassle they don't take a test they just put it down to a you know a seasonal cold or July cold or something I think I think probably two months ago if you had respiratory symptoms it probably was the cold rather than COVID now unfortunately if you have respiratory symptoms it's probably COVID I think the advice particularly if you're under a 55 is just to assume assume you have an infection and try and stay at home until 48 hours after it's passed remember ounce and test will only become positive about after on day three so you do a test you have a cold you say well I don't have COVID and your scarper that's going to spread COVID so I think the recommendation is if you have significant respiratory symptoms I think if you have a temperature particularly if you have a cough just stay at home until you're better now you can do an ounce and test if you want to have day two or three but you don't assume that the ounce and test in day one is negative so you don't have COVID so I think that's the primary thing to ask people people to do I was listening to someone from the WHO recently they seem to feel that you know what's going around at the moment is not causing as much serious illness not leading to as many death and whilst there's no crystal ball of course they hope that that trend continues that would be is that your your your view also yes it is and I think it would be wrong of us to try and not to avoid the fact I think people see Omicron a third of the population had it since Christmas and and I think we're all honest we said well Chiefers I was expecting it to be much worse now unfortunately there's a significant subgroup of egg of very ill and B then have had to go into hospital and a few and a number that have that continue to die from from from COVID infection I think that we're now in a situation where I think that we're in a mitigation stage where we're just trying to limit the effect of this and I think the two important things are don't be selfish if you have a significant infection stay at home and vaccinations I think those are the two primary messages that I would like to get to get through if you have a significant temperature don't be selfish just stay at home until you're better and then vaccination which is another issue I think as you're aware the optic of vaccinations have been superb in Ireland but the fourth booster only 50% of the at risk group the group that were asked to come have actually had their their vaccine go out I mean and and listen the the reality is isn't it that it's it's people of not all older people but certain older people and those with weakened immune systems not all of them but some of them as well are most vulnerable to this now how do you increase it from 50% because I think fear and compliance because of restrictions is what drove our incredible uptake previously but I just don't see that around this time I'm talking to people who are immunocompromised and they're going I had a bit of reaction to the third job I'm just not going to I'm going to take my chances you know what I mean I'm not going for a fourth and I'm hearing that on such I don't know a lot of people but I'm hearing that from is quite a few of that cohort if you know what I mean so I imagine that must be a pretty widespread opinion doctor I think I think that that sort of snapshot is quite is quite well and Greg I think so I think that there's there's a number of factors I think because people now look upon it and say I I had Omicron it was no problem even though it was it was no it was no problem it probably was fine because they were boosted to be honest the second thing is that they you know that there is fatigue and then then I think a small factor and I don't want to over overplay it was that all almost to everybody except for a number of small practices and in Donegal the over 70s got Pfizer vaccine which is an M RNA vaccine now when this came around it was Moderna it is it's I can't say on the on the they're they're equivalent to exactly the same profile that actually caused people to stall slightly now remember that 50% also probably about 20% of the over 65s got COVID so we're talking about 70% which isn't bad there's people who are excluded from the vaccine now I think that you know if you look at just simple figures I think that there is fatigue but the as Colm Henry said that the over eight seven or eight hundred people in hospital 300 haven't been vaccinated and then the other group a quite high proportion of people didn't get their booster so the booster protects you all I would sort of say is the booster continues to protect you and that's it and without it you could particularly if you're an actress group you could be very ill and you and you could could die so I think it's a it's trying to I don't want to scare people into the booster I want to explain people but you see also to what we have now is more knowledge in that you know people in their friends group and I've spoken to a lot I've spoken to a lot of people who've loved ones have died because of COVID and we don't hear from them really do you know what I mean and sometimes that can get forgotten in all of this a lot a lot of people died and a lot of people listened to this broken lost loved ones through it but also in the general population a lot of people know people that were immunocompromised or older and it didn't really do them much harm and I think that people are starting to make their own minds up on this as well so the messaging and your messaging was really quite clear there but I understand how the HSC is trying to be a bit clever with their messaging like a chef going hello yes and I'm 12 weeks pregnant I don't know what that actually means to be honest with you and I think really should they should get back to some clear targeted messaging not scare the entire nation but actually just focus in on the groups that we're talking of and say by the way we're going to make it as easy as possible for you to get this job if you want to because it's your best line of protection I think so and I think you could argue that okay we know immunocompromised people who had it and it was fine but you could argue that was because they had their booster you know what I mean okay there will be the same as you know we all know somebody who smoked 100 cigarettes and lived till 80 but the thing is but it is it is it is the simple simple messaging I think that the okay let's just say 65 70% of people you know are half covered because they've had previous infects in the last while but coming up to coming up to October I think it's really important that we get the levels up because we'll begin to see slippage and I don't want to see sickness and death again but if we're seeing sort of 800 people in hospital at the moment for COVID or with COVID obviously the testing's going to pick up a lot of a lot of just cases that aren't necessarily calling people sick but if that's the situation in July and we're seeing you know some record figures for July in terms of waiting times and trolley figures it does make you wonder what is to come into winter and I know neither you or I as people are maybe on holidays or planning their holidays and children at home we don't want to ruin any one summer but we can't completely bury our hands we have to consider what maybe the winter holds for their health service and one other caveat to that Dennis if you don't mind me saying if the hospitals are jammered and it's a nightmare it's like a war zone 95% of the population are completely unaffected by it they don't really it doesn't really matter because they're not sick and they don't need the hospital but for that 5% or 10% or whatever it might be and for the staff it's absolute chaos well it is and I I think thankfully the majority of us don't have to go to casually don't have to go to a hospital and when they go in they see a lot of people trying their best but when it is when it's crowded and there's pressure on beds and there's decisions to be made it's really stressful and it's stressful to the doctors but it's also stressful because when you have a full hospital and the standard of care isn't the same they try their best of course they will try their best but if you have an occupancy level of 105% and the standard of care you get for your loved one is less so yeah I think it is it's trying to it's a thing called health beliefs we just have to get people to sort of say beyond how they I think it just to protect themselves and and as we've shown through the whole time people have an instinct to put as that societal what can I do what can I do for Ireland in the in in the winter quite simply get a get a part of my life and get your B.L.O.D.Y vaccine if you are at risk because it is so useful to you it is also it's it's money in the bank for the health services because they know that that person is likely not to get sick with if they get COVID and go into hospital into hospital and it protects your your your your social group your loved ones and the general population so yeah I think as I say GPs repeat themselves and don't be selfish if you have a temperature stay at home and if you if you are above 65 coming into the coming into the October make sure you get your vaccine and there will be slight confusion Greg in that there's no discussion about everybody getting it again that'll be up to NIAC to decide and whatever NIAC decides that's fine but I know that the evidence is you get a vaccine you will you will probably you will hopefully not get burial and not die from this from this virus. Just two more questions Dennis is is it simple enough to get your fourth dose does people listen here go I am never touching that jab again and you know what you've given your advice and they'll make their own decisions but I've also been contacted by people that have said I went to go and get it and then I needed a GP referral and I traveled from you know I think I think it was in a show and actually to letter Kenny and how do you get if you want and you're entitled to your fourth jab how do you go about doing it is it simple enough? It is I'm probably at this stage looking to October but at the same time if you want to contact your GP he may have to order it in for you if you're if you're an apparatus group it's easy enough we can get you vaccinated but it isn't as easy as the last time I would ask people to ring their GPs and talk about the vaccine there will probably be a bit of organization to get it but we ordered 200 and then 200 again to mop up the people that are looking for from us so it's not as it's not that the every GP has the vaccine in their in their fridge at the present minute because we we did that a couple about a month ago and it has gone out of date so yes I would ask people if they get it now they can still get their vaccine in October but after another couple of weeks really I'm actually concentrating to be honest in October no do not miss your vaccine in October. Alright finally is this endemic you know you hear senior politicians this country talk about it being endemic I just feel the world with everything else that's going on has perhaps moved past dealing with this as a pandemic even if that means that you know excess mortality rates will increase but what do you feel firstly do you believe it is endemic at this moment and and secondly do you ever anticipate you know other than maybe masks in certain areas restrictions ever being imposed again for this unless obviously it takes a severe turn in the wrong direction. I don't think we're endemic yet but we're getting all the various messaging is actually if you look at it it's still very important but for instance there's a big push that testing may not be as important to the 155s that's a that's a lessening but endemic means endemic means it's there everywhere but I think that because it's still such a dangerous virus to the other virus that we deal deal with it's maybe endemic plus in that there's still significant things we have to do I would love if there was a vaccine that actually prevented you getting it that would be the end of it but I don't know from an immunology point of view how relevant that is because it mutates so much but I do think it is a virus that we have to remain to be very careful with we have to be not be selfish and we have to protect those that need to be protected. Okay as always Dr Dennis McCawley thank you very much for your time it's greatly appreciated now by the way the absolute majority if you're listening today maybe not so much in Donningall but certainly if we looked at it nationwide of those who were offered a vaccine or a vaccine was available to them and it really is quite a remarkable figure 91% of the population opted to take it 91%. COVID was started in a way to reduce the population of the world and now looking like World War 3 to finish off what's left a bit of a doomsday attitude there for that to work and this is just basic thinking by the way and we've been down this road before so you are saying you have to be saying this that North Korea Russia and China are in cahoots with the west to spread COVID because I'm sure one of them would have called it out at this point and now they're also in cahoots with the west to manufacture a war so you're saying Putin's in on this because he would have to be there's no way your scenario could exist unless Vladimir Putin's working with Biden and Boris and Kim Jong-un it's the only way it would work if if what you're saying is true it's the only unless they're aliens or lizards I don't know how about the blow 60 years for the job and waiting for an appointment in hospital apart from COVID could you ask him what the flu numbers are like at the moment just recovering from flu myself I can get them for you by the way they're they're broadly available if you're interested the sunshine vitamin that protected us all in very few cases last summer when the sun was out when we got it naturally I wonder if these in hospital lacking in vitamin D I just just by the way you don't need direct sunlight for vitamin D by the way out in the daylight is fine you don't you don't have to see the sun to get vitamin D no more than you have to see the sun to get a tan the nine till noon show is brought to you in association with florid letter kenny celebrating five years in business offering quality wooden floors at exceptional value visit florid.ie are you switched on to your energy rights if you're worried about rising energy costs and you're having difficulty paying your gas and electricity bills you should contact your supplier suppliers are required to assist customers in genuine financial difficulty and can put in place payment arrangements to help you manage your energy bills if you qualify as a vulnerable customer due to health age or for other reasons you can register with your supplier for additional protections switch on to your rights and visit cru.ie brought to you by the commission for regulation of utilities I have great news for everyone who's looking for a good night's sleep rest ex beds are looking forward to welcoming you to their brand new showroom at mountaintop letter kenny it's one of the biggest and best bed and mattress showrooms in the northwest and has fantastic open and offers now in store rest ex is the most trusted name in beds and mattresses in the northwest why don't you call in and get the bed of your dreams at rest ex beds mountaintop letter kenny this thursday the jive time show will be live from the 51st linen festival in remelton where they've got a great lineup of family entertainment and big band nights including derrick ryan the original voice of smoky chris norman and jimmy buckley so be sure to tune in this thursday to david james live from remelton for festival detail c lennon festival on facebook now shin fame spokesperson education donahoe leary deputant leary has announced the party will bring forward a motion in the door next week to urge the government to take immediate action to ease the burden of back to school he joins us now good morning to you thank you very much for taking the call good morning right okay so what is shin fame proposing here the first thing i just want to say is back school costs are a big burden for families in any year and we often would hear of families who who have to borrow and go into death just to pay the bills of the books the uniforms and the so-called voluntary contributions that come through but i'm hearing from more parents than ever at this stage in the summer um because of the concerns around the rising cost of living like that there is a cost of living crisis there that is really putting people under savage pressure and they're very very worried when you look at the huge costs that could be forthcoming so we're proposing a number of things we have a package of 161 million euro that we're proposing uh and it is a mixture of helping people into here in the now but also in reducing the cost of going back to school in the longer term and i suppose the largest proposal that we're bringing forward is extending the back to education allowance and the grant that people get during the summer months to middle income families we want to extend this to 500 000 additional children which would target those on a combined household income of 80. Do you not feel that though just by with a proposal like that that you just thrown good money after bad could you expand on that? Well say for instance parents are obliged in many cases to get branded school uniforms from a specific supplier so they're facing bills of 250 300 euro because the school insists they go to a local shop and buy a specific jumper that already has the badge on it could we not introduce a scheme whereby these schools you could buy them from wherever these uniforms you could buy them from wherever and you could iron on a badge that would be one example secondly some schools do back do do um the what do you call it with the books you know the book exchange scheme or whatever it is right so not all of them do so you'd be giving money to certain schools where parents would be forced to spend hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of euro on school books unnecessarily would you not be what could we not tackle that and then this funded will be more targeted and better value rather than chucking millions at something that really just ends up going into uh book companies and uh and school uniform manufacturers pockets that's what i mean by spending good money after bad absolutely and look i'm in complete agreement with you because what we're doing trying to do here is they offer some assistance to parents in the here and then now but also tackling those costs that exist on a long term basis so why we're proposing to expand this is because we know there's countless families who don't get any assistance who don't qualify for this we want to see them get some assistance this summer to qualify for the back to education because there's a lot of middle income families who face big bills who have to make difficult choices who need some assistance we also want to increase it by 50 for those who are getting it but we also in the in the here and now and into the longer term want to tackle those on quite well would you like to see some transparency on these uh these voluntary charges where does that money go how does that feed into a school's bank balance what's it spent on and then why did they come back at you every three months looking for more money we do i might deal with the uniform issue first just as you raised that earlier we're actually introducing legislation today and as part of our package of proposals we're actually introducing legislation today into the toilet so that you know it can be passed and discussed and so on which would oblige schools to have a uniform policy and the said uniform policy would ensure that items of clothing are available from multiple retailers so the parents of choice and so that is cheaper in terms of the in terms of the so-called voluntary contributions we actually proposed legislation on this about nine months so the government actually voted to delay it by nine months if they haven't done that it might have been further on down the line now we recognize that the reason the voluntary contributions exist is because schools are completely underfunded and there's a minority of schools that um of course yeah but do we know do we know do we know what that money's spent on like if if it costs 10 000 to run a school ridiculous figure but you know what i mean and they are funded by uh six thousand and then how much are they taking in from these voluntary charges and what's done with the excess excess how is that spent does it make up the full shortfall does it exceed it what is the money used for so what our legislation would do is actually identify that shortfall because no organization actually knows that at this point in time so we would ensure the legislation that we put forward which the government voted to delay by nine months would ensure that monies that are gathered by schools are accounted for it would allow us to identify at a central level what's being spent on costs that are directly connected with education that the Department of Education should be voting to bill for and what are not and that would allow us to identify what exactly is the shortfall between what schools are spending what they're getting from the department but be sure this there is a shortfall because i know from numerous numerous examples that schools are having to fundraise just to keep the lights on just to pay for things like toilet paper just to pay for for water bills and so on so we need to make up that shortfall but in once we have done that our legislation proposes that the minister will end voluntary contributions that they will ban them it's not possible to do that right now because at schools aren't getting the funding that they need but we do want to see that day it's ridiculous that and we want to see it in the relatively short term it's ridiculous it's absolutely Victorian that schools have to fundraise to pay for such basic things as electricity but it's also ridiculous that parents are asked to pay so-called voluntary contributions often you know for secondary school kids could be above 300 euros and i've seen examples of over 400 euros and that is a lot of pressure on families but it is when the tax escape coming in the emails keep coming in and it's bad enough that the bank might be on to you or some other lending institution or utility might be constantly looking for money off you but when it's the school as well it's just a misery on top of misery so let me ask i presume this these assistants would be targeted to working families as well who would be very much squeezed as well what is the the the upper sort of income limits and what kind of money are we talking in terms of the allowances so we're talking about targeting those who have a combined household income of 80 000 euro or less that would be extending it to 500 000 additional children because the payment goes is connected to the child parents for 500 000 additional children and targeting those with a combined income 80 000 euro or less and those who are already getting the payment which is about a quarter of a million people would see an increase of about 50 percent in the payment so ensuring that those who need the assistance most those on the lowest incomes get the most assistance but also ensuring that you know the back bulk of middle income families about three quarters of parents will get some assistance because this is a a set of costs that cuts right across society that many families feel the brunt of and look if you're if you have three kids in school you could be facing five six hundred euro and voluntary contributions add on to that your uniforms add on to that your your books if there's not a book rental scheme and even if there is there's a fee connected to that very often um you know you could be well touching I mean I think I mean I understand the motivation maybe I do but you know branded then sports gear branded hoodies uh as well as branded school jumpers I mean it's just um it's just OTT do you know what I mean I think schools need to read the room here and see the situation people are in I think so I think there is definitely scope to reduce the cost of uniforms I think it's legitimate schools to decide to have uniforms but there's no reason to say and it's the case in many of the european countries that most parts of the uniforms are things you could buy in a whole multiple of shops that they're uh affordable that they you don't require too many variations on the uniform either you know because some people have you know not just your tracksuit in your school uniform which you might have a third version as well for for mutations and things like that and so there is there is too much of an outplay there that can be reduced without impacting on schools autonomy to have uniforms that's definitely possible some schools are doing it some schools are doing it already but our legislation that we're bringing forward today would ensure that schools have a policy that it's consulted that it's consulted upon with the parents and that it ensures that parents have choice there to ensure that cost can be brought down all right listen thanks for your time today appreciate it greatly have a great day thanks very much take care bye bye that's uh Sinn Fein spokesperson education Donahoe Leary there and his motion is coming for the doll this weekly and on Facebook says anything being done for children going to third level we were quoted 220 euro per week yesterday for accommodation for UCC we are just above the Susie limit so we get nothing right that's is that affordable to most people or anyone not anyone but you know what i'm on about anyone in the same sort of wage categories i mean you would have to be you'd have to be really well resourced you'd have to be in a really good job to be able to afford 220 euro extra for rent only that's just the rent of sending someone to third level it really is an incredible pressure on families just maybe when they feel they're you know breaking the back of things maybe you know jobs are a little bit settled maybe the over the hump with the mortgage and then to face another bill of almost a thousand a month 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Liz Bailey's the human milk bank coordinator at the southwest accused hospital in enoskilla joins us now hello Liz can you hear me okay yes can you hear me I can loud and clear and thank you so much for joining us this morning right okay so why is there only one milk bank and how is that coordinated if you don't mind me asking firstly the milk bank in northern arland started 20 about 22 years ago and it's just growing size and I think they are trying to get one in the south south of arland but at the minute the one that we have here is able to supply the 27 units throughout the whole of arland and how where do you source the milk we source the milk from kind donors all the new mummies that have had babies and if they have an over supply then they would email in or ring and ask to become a donor to donate the milk for premature babies amazing and tell us why there would be a gap there why a new mum would require donor milk I know it's obvious to a lot of people but for just so we're all aware right across the story we supply premature baby units and premature babies mum supply sometimes doesn't come in and if you think of the stress of having a new baby and you know it's premature it might take that day or two extra for the mummies milk to come in so donor milk is fatal in that interim to be able to support the mum so that she's not stressed and to let that mummies milk come through and we know the importance of mummies milk for newborns but is it particularly important for premature babies it is it helps for eye and brain development and the way lungs to keep groin and the boil it helps them where they don't get necrotysin and chelates so it saves the babies boil so donor mums donor milk donors are not only helping the babies but helping the parents as well in that difficult time because I'm I'm sure it can be quite for a mum who's maybe not producing enough milk yet and knows that might help her baby already gone through a stressful time it's just more anxiety on top of stress on top of anxiety it is so it alleviates that stress and it helps the mum then to kind of settle and then when you get the bond with the baby the skin to skin mum will relax us and whenever she gets that baby feeling then it helps to release the milk okay now are there pressure on supplies at the moment and or is it like blood in other words you sort of always maybe have one or two days supply or how does that work Liz whenever we get mum's milk we give them within the three month period so whenever we pasteurize it lasts for six months brilliant so we do an appeal maybe two or three times a year to get ahead so at the minute we're doing this appeal so that we know that whenever we pasteurize the milk we have it for six months so we're actually preparing for the Christmas rush because a lot of premature babies are born around that time okay is there a particular reason for that I wonder it's probably with Christmas and younger children and the running around and more stress and especially with time constraints and money constraints at this year because they know that the electricity bills are gone up and fuels gone up food's gone up it could be more stressful maybe this year so having a good supply to be able to supply the units is going to be really important all right so if there's any people listening at the moment that are producing milk what's the process in terms of their interaction with you containing it and sort of getting it to end the skill and how will how's all that work from sort of the first contact Liz? Well if they make contact with the milk bank on 028 686 28333 or they can email tmb.ervenstown at westerntrust.hseni.net they will get in touch with us and they'll send them out a donor record sheet which is kind of like a medical question now to see if we can accept them as a donor and then they fill that back in and we'll take them on there as a donor so we send out all the wee bottles and we send out the blood kit and then they collect first over the three months and then we have it lifted by our kind blood bank volunteers and they are all volunteers um Cook Holland and CRS are wonderful at getting it round the whole of Ireland. I didn't realize the blood bank crew did the breast milk as well. Yeah it's like a wee breakaway group from the blood banks um they have made now where they do milk milk so they collect and they deliver the milk for us the whole way throughout the whole of Ireland. It's amazing generosity from the donors isn't it? It's it really is it's a lifeline for these premature babies and the blood bankers they give up their time all weekend to the collections and the delivery so it's a wonderful service. And just to be clear donors can come from any part of the island is that correct Liz? Yes they can come as far as Cork the whole way around the whole of Ireland. Brilliant stuff and we have the contact details the email and the telephone number here people wish to get in contact with you. We really appreciate the time I think a lot of people listen to this might might be learning for the first time that this type of service exists and there's people around the country that are generously donating like they are it's it's wonderful and you need more and you're planning towards Christmas. Liz thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much for having me. No it's our pleasure thank you. Okay right okay that was Liz Bailey she's the human milk bank coordinator at the Southwest Accuse Hospital in Enesgillan. She says it's vital that recent moms come forward and donate if you can and many already do and as you heard from her that milk then is used to primarily feed premature babies and you heard from Liz there the benefit that has and as I said or tried to say it's it's wonderful obviously gives the new babies the premature babies the best start but also moms going through a difficult time with their partners as well takes hopefully a little bit of pressure on them. I call and believes we should all be sensible and take our vaccines. Yeah indeed and it's personal choice and people have to weigh up the pros and cons and make that decision. Myself and my wife got the fourth vaccine in a chemist in Donegal town it was about two months ago. We got it done with no problem no delays we were in and out in less than 15 minutes. Right Greg originally it was going to cost three billion now it's estimated at 95 billion why not just put two Lewis Tram lines as they have at Edinburgh Airport to the city centre a number of years ago. I read in a national newspaper a Japanese firm was willing to construct an operator metro system for Dublin on a 30-year contract it could be up and running at this stage but this is Ireland. You just wonder sometimes if some of these projects are little legacy projects for politicians maybe even some might say vanity projects. A caller says they do nothing to tackle the rising cost of inflation it's similar to putting a fire out with the kind of petrol but the seems to be the only tool in government's arsenals and it's not just us by the way it's the United States it's everywhere is interest rate hikes that seems to be the go-to tool for lowering inflation but the problem with this is the factors that are driving inflation particularly obviously in fuel and the fuel we use for heat and to run our cars it's not going to really be impacted as much as they might want with interest rate interest rate rises. All right more of your comments here as it relates to schools sure voluntary contributions are voluntary are they not the letter goes in the bin and the school doesn't ask parents directly for them it depends from school to school. Hi Greg I just want to highlight the privacy queries I had last week when I went to the emergency department I am 10 weeks pregnant I had a bleed rang to Guiney and told I had to go through the ED which is something we've been trying to highlight on this program they don't mind that though as they were worried but that what has annoyed me when I went to the reception in ED there is zero privacy when giving my details the lady behind the glass was on an intercom and everyone in the waiting room knew my name my address my pregnancy worry and there were two ladies that I knew there who now know I'm pregnant before my family does is this not a GDPR issue with this sorry for the long message but I'm so put out by this thanks again Greg listen I understand exactly where you're coming from I understand it to the point that the last time the hospital's general manager Sean Murphy was on with me I said to him Sean a lot of people you know this would not fix all of the problems but a lot of people are very uncomfortable relating their details in that space is there no way that that can be done more privately he says they are going to look into it I think it would make a big difference if they did particularly in this case also a lot of people and even I for example if that's okay have an issue with people who are pregnant and bleeding or having a miscarriage happen to go through the ED and we've heard horror stories from people who needed to use the toilet but couldn't get into the toilet or were in the toilet and you can imagine for the reasons why and people banging on the doors it never used to be like that and when we said it to the HSC and asked them to explain it they just effectively give us a shrug of the shoulders via email all right we're going to take a break for the news and obituary notices join us afterwards but don't go anywhere Donald's on the way this weekend the northwest dunigal vintage club will host their vintage show at their new location of killed on fanny with classic and vintage cars tractors other vehicles and agricultural implements craft and artisan displays all welcome there's also a fun fair t-tent and Trader stalls Traders must call 087 236 924 on sunday there's music with Alex Enchanted Black, Hugh McLean and John James enjoy a great day for all the family this saturday and sunday at killed on Fanny years ago i used to dread my motor insurance renewal then a friend told me about O'Malley Scanlan Insurance in Bally Boo Fay and Dunlow they do all the hard work they contact all the major insurance underwriters and they get the very best possible quote for me they have saved me a small fortune over the years and they could do the same for you when your insurance comes up for renewal contact O'Malley Scanlan Insurance at their Bally Boo Fay office on 91 310 20 or they're done low office on 95 treble 206 O'Malley Scanlan is regulated by the central bank does your Kia or Nissan need to be serviced there's a host of benefits to servicing your car with iMotors our workshop has dedicated software and computers that are designed for your Kia and Nissan our technicians are trained to the manufacturing standards to make sure they understand your car call us today or visit our website to book in we also offer servicing on all other branded vehicles lie on air online and on the Highland Radio app this is Highland Radio News good morning it's 10 o'clock donal Kavanaugh at the Highland Radio News Desk Adonigo GP says he doesn't want to use scare tactics to promote COVID-19 booster vaccines but the reality is without them people may die dr. Dennis McCauley who chairs the iMotors GP committee says there has been some COVID fatigue in recent times and in some instances people have been explaining symptoms away as summer calls but in fact they probably have COVID-19 on today's 9 to noon show dr. McCauley told Grecus that COVID remains a serious threat and people still need to protect themselves and others the booster protects you and without it particularly if you're an actress group you could be very ill and you could die i would love if there was a vaccine that actually prevented you getting it that would be the end of it but i don't know from an immunology point of view how relevant that is because it mutates so much but i do think it is embarrassed that we have to remain to be very careful with we have to be not be selfish and we have to protect those that need to be protected. The Dall Business Committee is today discussing how much time should be given over to debating the remediation of dwellings affected by defective concrete blocks bill 2022 which was published last week by Thursday's deadline 80 amendments had been proposed following lengthy discussions involving opposition tds the mica action group and others the group believes at least nine hours needs to be given over to a debate on the amendments however the government is understood to be proposing a two hour window for discussion in the british parliament controversial troubles legacy legislation has been voted through another stage MPs voted by 282 votes to 217 majority of 65 to give it a third reading it would stop inquests into troubles killings that haven't got to an advanced stage and prevent new ones from happening dup leader jeffrey donelson alliance deputy leader steven farry and stlp leader column eastwood all spoke against it my fear is that the path to reconciliation is not made easier when you dispense with justice reconciliation is very much in the dna of the alliance party it's what we're fundamentally about that said we are concerned in the way reconciliation has been used in terms of this bill it is a whitewash on a grand scale ireland's at risk of not meeting a 51 percent cut in carbon emissions by 2030 the government's been warned in a new report that it will not be achieved unless there's a complete transformation of the planning system the report published by wind energy ireland points out that some progress has been made but it also says existing strategies plans and targets need to be stepped up the report comes as dunagol county council discusses further restrictions to wind energy developments in the county development plan and opposition grows to a number of proposed wind farms in the county however the ceo of wind energy ireland noel khanuf says the pace of delivering sustainable energy projects remains very slow we're showing that hitting those targets cutting our carbon emissions by 51 percent it's just about possible but we're not moving fast enough so there's been some progress made but we need to do more if we're able to prioritize renewable energy projects through our planning system to deliver them at a faster rate than we're currently doing then we can really start to become much more energy independent much more in control of our energy bills and really start to drive down prices for consumers police and dary have confirmed a 26 year old man was arrested yesterday in connection with an ongoing investigation into a parade in the city on Easter Monday the man has been released without charge pending a file to the public prosecution service and the fiscal advisory council says the government's decision to increase spending by 6.5 percent in the budget was necessary and we're still a long way from chasing inflation a 6.7 billion euro package for budget 2023 was announced last evening in the summer economic statement chairperson Sebastian Barnes says a 5 percent limit on spending growth had been previously implemented but he says we're currently in exceptional circumstances the council called for a long time to have this kind of spending rule to keep the growth of spending in line with the underlying growth of the economy but of course we're really in exceptional circumstances where inflation the latest indications it's something around 9 percent and in that situation I think it just doesn't make sense to try and stick to the 5 percent but what the government is doing is their own spending increase is actually 6.5 percent so it's a bit higher than the 5 percent but it's a long way from chasing inflation at 9 percent russian short haul is co-leader of the social democrats and their finance spokesperson she says money is available to government now and it should be used immediately to help ease the cost of living burden the government coffers are full and it is you know it's quite possible for the government to provide something now and unfortunately they're going to leave people for another three months and during that time more and more families are going to be into death and they're going to get into deeper poverty and the government shouldn't be doing this many drying today with some light rain at times rather cloudy with a few sunny spells developing particularly later on in the afternoon top temperatures 15 to 17 degrees celsius with west to northwest winds light to moderate a cloudy night tonight with light rain at times lowest temperatures 12 to 13 again light to moderate westerly breezes tomorrow cloudy again with a little light rain or drizzle top temperatures again 15 to 17 moderate occasionally fresh west to northwest winds that's how the radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock the average notices for this Tuesday morning the 5th of july the death has taken place of helena devlin ney bradley formerly of convent road cardina removal from eternal light 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to victims because perhaps sometimes they feel they shouldn't report it or they don't want to speak publicly on it and i can get that i understand that but of course it's good to report all crime and the guard he won't judge you in that regard we were talking about the defense forces some being sent from bondoren to doblin airport to help out with the crisis down there this caller says this is an abuse of our defense forces it's not what personnel signed up for to be used as free labor for the daa why don't the daa review their paying contracts to entice people to come and work for them rather than expecting our already overstretched and underpaid defense force personnel to sort out the mess they created one would hope though and i said it right at the top of the show one would hope that the daa will pay extra and these people will be paid extra for the work that they are doing okay though kid is the night on noon show for this tuesday morning we'll be back with more as i mentioned 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doing good right as i mentioned before the break there we're going to be talking a little bit about romance fraud a little later on but we'll start with the appeals and how our listeners can help guardy solve some of these crimes and we'll begin will we with a burglary in the baleshanan area yes greg a guardian baleshanan are investigating a burglary occurred at the bachelor's walk area of the town last sunday past between seven p.m and one a.m on monday the fourth that's seven p.m sunday the third sunday evening and one a.m on the morning the fourth of july a garage in the area was broken into and the side window of the garage was smashed an entry was gained at this stage it's not believed fortunately that any property was stolen but we are appealing for anybody who may have served any suspicious activity in the area of bachelor's walk baleshanan between these times to contact the guardy of baleshanan 07198 58530 or again the confidential line 1800 okay we travel to fawn now an appeal over a theft yes this is a theft greg which occurred between we believe between june the 15th and june the 25th sometime last month and guardian mcranagh are seeking information in relation to the 12th of 27 use 36 lambs and two hugged use the breed of the sheep involved is swallydale and this breed of sheep is not very common with indoneigal and again some of the sheep have red or blue spray on their backs and some have green spray on their heads so again we're appealing for anybody who may have any information maybe farmers in the area maybe people who are offered these sheep to be uh on sale to contact the guardian mcranagh 0749320540 now this was in the bala hone a balanahone area fawn isn't it this is uh this is one of those that people might have seen something at at that time and probably thought something else was going on and we really need them to rack their brains now if yeah you know as you say maybe a jeep or trailer with sheep on it maybe during the night or an unusual time maybe you're taught not enough but maybe this is refreshing your memory now and maybe if you have information again to come forward please okay now we're uh talking about a theft from a vehicle in bandorn yes we're back down to the sound to the county and greg we're a balashana and garady receive report on july the first pass in relation to a stolen jeep from the drum mcranagh road of bandorn the jeep in question a black land rover free lander partial ridge zero five dl a black land rover free lander stolen from the location between four a.m and five a.m on friday morning the first of july greg the jeep had been stolen from an open shed at the rear of a property on the the following day the saturday the second of july the jeep was observed by garady in balashanan at caracaboy at 9 45 p.m on the saturday night past is believed that the jeep then crossed the border into northern irland and then the following day that sunday past the third of july shortly after 10 a.m the stolen jeep was located at the rock in bandorn so a good time frame there for maybe people who may have seen the jeep you know firstly anybody who observed any suspicious activity in the drum mcranagh road area on friday morning the first of july between four a.m and five a.m to contact garady and again anybody who traveled in around balashanan on saturday night the second of july who may have served to stolen jeep again to contact the garady and finally appealed anybody who may have served the jeep being driven or abandoned at the rock bandorn between 10 p.m the second of july and 10 a.m the third of july to contact with the garady so a good time frame there for people who may have observed us and if you were on that road at that time and happened to have dash cam footage get it to garady check your dash cam you may have passed this again on to one that might have seen a normal passing this vehicle but check your dash cam and if any that may be of assistance to pass it on to the garady okay now a theft at newton conningham is where we're going next yes Greg this is a theft which occurred in the town of killie verry newton conningham between friday the 24th of june and tuesday the 28th of june a tractor had been parked in the yard and the gps system was stolen from excuse me the gps equipment is black in color has been scribed as a trimble cfx 750 with a magic box plus a g25 and an antenna and again as you can imagine this piece of equipment is worth a substantial amount of money and for anybody who has any relative information again may have seen something suspicious in the area or may have been offered this for sale to contact the garady dada kenny 07491 67100 or again the confidential line 1800 travel 6 travel 1 okay right last as it relates to our appeals now criminal damage in lyford union again we're appealing to criminal damages occurred at the crohn heights area lyford in the early hours of wednesday morning the 29th of june the passenger window of a car at location was smashed between 12 midnight and 7am greg and we appealed residents in the area to contact the garady if they've seen or heard anything that that may be a beneficial to an investigation let me get a station please this is criminal damage which occurred in westbrook bridge area of bunkrana over the weekend between saturday there saturday past 10am and 8am sunday morning unfortunately a number of flower blocks along the bridge were damaged flowers were pulled out and one of the pots was thrown into the river again look it takes a lot of effort by these community groups to put up these flowers and again unfortunately some damage was caused so anybody who has any information to contact the garady at bunkrana 07493 20540 right okay now um romance fraud uh it's a hot topic at the moment it's uh nothing new as such but uh a garady are focusing on this trying to get the information out there yes well obviously you're aware that i think you may have spoken before romance fraud is becoming quite common uh with the pandemic and people not getting out and about a lot of people have turned to meeting online and things like that and you know if it's becoming common then it should be safe greg and from january this year to the end of may 31 cases where romance fraud reported to the garady uh 23 female victims and eight males in all of the cases except for one the victims encountered the suspect through a dating app or social media and in all the cases over 800 000 euro has been reported loss and again in every case the money has been transferred to accounts outside ireland or to bitcoin wallets and the fraud is enabled via online dating sites or other social media again these are fraudsters fraudsters who provide the victims with well-prepared stories designed to deceive the victims will develop online relationships with these people and you will use fake identities photographs and fake life stories and inevitably greg the fraudster will ask the victim for money and continue to ask for money until the victim has no more to give or to realize that they're being deceived yeah and they'll um as soon as they can ask uh try and get their victim off of the dating apple social media on to the likes of whatsapp if you're interested in climbing mantevres they'll be interested in climbing mantevres if you like the eagles back catalog they'll like the eagles back catalog but if you ask them for a video call yes you'll soon find out that everything you've been interested in they've been interested in everything you've done they've done as well if you lost your mother when uh you you were young they will be able to relate to you because they will also have lost a a guardian in the younger life that is how they get at you yes and and often greg people are embarrassed to report these crimes and we're asking people not to do so in fact unfortunately it has become quite common and the more information we have the more we can we can put a stop to it right and they have some advice from the garda national economic crime bureau in relation to any person on a dating site or in communication with people that they've never met only over social media is to use reputable dating sites and use their messaging service and again do not move as you said to social media or to texting or whatsapp very quickly be wary of unsolicited links or approaches to suggested likes and again be careful what you share on social media and online dating websites and again do not reveal your full name or home address and protect your identity as best you can and again be wary of anybody asking for lots of questions about you as you said but not revealing much about themselves they will come across as being as the alien person having the same likes as you as you said and again watch out for snippets of conversation which were out of sync with previous chats fraudsters are engaged with multiple victims at the same time greg following scripts prepared for them by normally by other people and often can get mixed up on occasions and again never send money or give your pocket kind of details to somebody you've never met no matter how much you believe and trust them do not download apps like any desk at their behest or allow them to have control over your device and again do not send money or pay for medical bills purchase flight services a lot of these people as you say will tell you that if people sick belong to them and they need urgent money to pay for medical bills and they won't say they won't say to you they won't go uh i've no money at the moment you know do you have a thousand euros so i can go and visit my sick mother they will say uh they will work up to that they'll say i'm going to see my mother next week yes i can't believe i'm going to see my mother in two days then the day before my car it's been stolen i've been locked i'm not going to be able to see my mother now it breaks my heart and the person might go well you know i can give you the money if you can pay me back oh can you really and and you know what i mean so people don't meet someone and then 30 seconds later they're trying to get my out they'll work on you they'll work and you build up the element of trust i'm in the field they've got your trust and and you're vulnerable they'll pray in you then and ask you for the money and again remember individuals online can't pretend to be anybody they want to be you can google an image to see if it comes up on several sites of profiles and again never provide copies of your personal documents such as passports or driving license and finally never make arrangements to travel to meet them unless you're sure of their identity make sure you're inviting someone and sure that the person you're aware of is inviting and someone else you know if you're going to meet someone and you're not so sure tell this person oh i'm just telling my my best friend that i'm meeting you you'll get it you'll you'll know straight away if it's genuine or not and save copies of all correspondence that you have with this person and again if you think you're falling victim contact your bank bank and report them out of the garrity the quicker the better that you act the quicker the better chance of recouping any of your lost funds and i said to you before do not be embarrassed about porting this type of fraud to garrity you are not alone and you'll be treated with the relevant empathy and just be conscious that they have a banker photos that any conversation they're having with you they probably have a photo that that would back that so it seems like it's happening in real time also as you mentioned about the the scamming they will probably say early in a conversation and may mention it in passing that how are you doing well i'm doing a fantastic day i i had an investment and it's really worked out for me say nothing then three or four days drip it drip it drip it on such time as you go cool i wouldn't mind actually investing here because you trust them and and that's how they do and they will put in the time and they are experts in this and tiny eyes also quite useful for for you know reverse searching an image to find out if it's off someone's profile or or what have you all right and unfortunately as much as you try and get the message out because this is an awful crime that really works on people's hearts union yes and and that's why people continue to be to fall for it because we want to think the best of people and we want to find something new often and and that's what they're exploiting as you say yesterday they build up an elephant trust maybe people are vulnerable on the other side they're looking for love or close friendship and when they see that they're getting it they're willing to pass on their personal details and their money you know so we're asking if you just take the relevant precautions you'll see the guidelines that have given there up on the Garda Shia Khan website if you're meeting someone online have a look at the website see what's appropriate for you and don't be embarrassed to contact on Garda Shia Khan if they're there to try and solve these types of crimes as as well right Garda Sergeant Union Walsh as always thank you so much for your time Greg thanks for being here great to see you again great to have you in okay that was the community guard item for this Tuesday the 5th of July it'll be back with you on the program after the 10 o'clock news next Tuesday right okay and just before we take a break to let you know what's coming up on the program Sinn Féin spokesperson on housing Owen O'Brien he'll be joining us to talk about the Dekept effective concrete blocks bill which will be held today and his party I presume are of the view that more time is needed to discuss it we'll see what they'll be doing about that we know the microaction group are on the record saying it leaves at least at least nine hours I give it three days but I know where they're coming from it's going to be 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Credit Union main street Bally Bofay the Lotto Jackpot is an estimated 2.5 million euro play responsibly in store in app or at lottery.ie the national lottery it could be you all right just briefly on a lighter note we were speaking yesterday about personalized number plates and whether a lot that should be reintroduced here and if they were what would yours be we had a caller on to say that my brother-in-law lives in London now his address is Ross Begg and his number plate over there is ro55beg which reads as Ross Begg another has Kieran ci4ran which is great and another has Mary Kay which is lovely isn't it an Audi 911 it was their father's plate okay right okay back to more serious matters now Michael Daugherty of the Micah Action Group joins us on the program Michael thanks for taking the call this morning thank you Greg all right good to have you with us right okay we'll talk about how this week's gone to unfold but a major development today I think really this is to show intent isn't it tell us what has happened in terms of a registration today well yesterday when we weed everything up here as campaigners across the five counties that have signed the joint statement that was read out by owner brim in the day last Thursday we've we've looked at it and in that statement it clearly says if we can't change this from outside as campaigners we will have to change it from within and we've arrived at a position where we now believe that's the stage we're at so yesterday we we declared our intent and we have got that acknowledged by their office and the registrations down there and we have got an application form here now to form our own party and what would it be called well we're going to work all out because we know Micah is the brand and that's very important and a lot of people relate to that but we also know there's an awful lot more to this than Micah we've got Pyrotite as well as Pyrite being the other recognized brand so we need to look at do we call this at the fact of concrete block um oh what do we do with that so for another day right we've got 28 days to work all the details out right now we've had to declare our intent which is the four stage and very important stage in the process and not to call a social instruction but that's where we've arrived at um it's a it's a blunt instrument this uh forming your own political party uh because you can't uh guide the electorate the electorate makes their own decisions and you could find yourself displacing uh parties or candidates that are friendly to the campaign yeah and these are all the risks that we're on with Greg but you know where were we at you know we're in a situation where we entered a process in good faith we are absolutely in a process that sets us up for failure we look at things like the fact two hours is all they're going to give us for a 2.7 billion euro scheme uh we look at the fact that when we table the amendments the chronological order of the amendments as dictated and written by the officials on the bill um is how these have to be um you know a draft in the two hours so we've got something that's extremely important but whenever it was put in the bill it was way down towards the end of the bill and we have to read through everything else try to get to that the concern yeah but who who dictates the pace because we could have a situation where uh filibustering uh goes on in other words uh there's two hours there let's spend 14 minutes arguing the toss over something that perhaps isn't the most important of the 80 amendments I mean is there any way to avoid that actually happening well we had that meeting last night and we had actually O'Brien who uh and then fairness I have to say to him has been really really good in filling this in with how all this sort of works out without any bias one we are the other just tell us what the process looks like and the more we see what the process looks like the less powerful we are from the outside we're going to have to get in there and make things happen the reality is it's set up Greg in a way that government won it's just like it's just like uh going to Vegas here and taking your chances on the table the house always wins that's how it feels with this government at the minute and the only way we can make that happen is to have and this will not happen over just two years remember there's 13 counties now affected donnie gall are at absolutely the leading edge on this because of the pain we're taking where we are on the curve compared to the rest but imagine what this is going to look like over the next 10 years there's going to be more and more counties saying this is absolutely terrible now we know what donnie call talked about and what are we going to do we're going to have to speak up we're going to have to be counted and we're going to have to field our own candidates so I believe donnie gall will be the starting point and we will be seeing candidates field it through the various affected counties as and when the pressure comes on them counties and I believe that'll be sooner rather than later this is the fun end of the wage here um I mean obviously at this point michael I'm reading from you that you're not optimistic that that that's uh an agreeable scheme is going to be agreed and I do notice in in in much of the media the narrative is is that really uh it's the the the the the mica campaign is we'll just call it that for because that's as you said earlier on that's what that was kind of known as at the moment they're they're scrounging they're they say right hold on you we want more money it's not that we want 100 percent of 420 we want 100 percent of 480 we all know that in this part of the world we all know that simply not the case my concern is is that the situation is being set up not only for uh the wrong decision to be made in the door but already for the public relations element of it to be in situ for when that decision is made yeah and then they're working and they're planning all that the background we're well aware of that we've got our own insight contacts as well it's telling us how this is all unfolding and that's why you know and it's not just today we've learned of that so I think it got to yesterday we just said to ourselves we can take no more I think the other very real part too is that in Donegal we've got 37 councillors we have got 12 finafall we have four fungale we put that out you may have seen it already where we're basically asking them to declare what are they doing are they going along with the government that thinks we two hours is sufficient and that we don't need these amendments granted bearing in mind the government tabled no amendments of their own or are they with the people and are they with the campaign that says we need at least six to nine hours here to do this right and we also need to see the amendments granted see the problem we have is that the problem we have is also the way this is being set up on some of the more important issues the get-out clause for some TDs is that well I didn't get a chance to vote so in other words you can't really criticize me because it's not my fault that we didn't get to actually have a vote or I didn't get to have my say on that amendment again I'm not sure by accident or design it's being set up really quite well to allow you know off-ramps escape routes and you know it's all it's it's it's all really quite coincidental the way the way this is working out yeah like I say the system is set up for us to fail you know as I'm government one but what I would say TDs every TD had the opportunity to table amendments so the didn't table amendments that tells us a lot our own two in power TDs in Donegal decided not to table amendments that's their position we have now gone to the councillors and already we have Finafall councillors coming back to us to say that no they support our demands for at least six hours of amendment time and for the amendments to be granted so this is in power councillors both in the Finafall and Donegal parties who are breaking ranks and coming with us to say no we agree this is not good enough and you know we've put that out as well to the other four affected counties assigned the joint statement but like I say I'm expecting less of a response down there they're just further down the court than we are but you know I think for Charlie McConnill and Joe McHugh when they're in a position they're meant to be our our TDs for Donegal and their own councillors are saying guys you's got it wrong we need these amendments granted and we need at least six hours time in the dial to get these amendments through and we have our own government TDs saying no we don't think that's appropriate it's a massive disconnect and I think that's a real real turning point for Finafall and Donegal in this county. Although that being said all you know a a large group of Finafall councillors signed a letter stating that they wanted to change your leadership of the party and that was able to sit in the same space as us having the county having a Finafall minister but I understand that it's important to get this stuff on the record. So briefly Michael can you just outline how this week goes what's happening today and tomorrow? Well today is very important Greg because today there will be a motion tabled for additional time beyond the two hours we needed at least six hours and that'll be the first thing we'll either one or lose that vote today if we won that vote today it's quite possibly would mean that you know we won't be doing what we're planning to do tomorrow in other words which is a two-hour slot which is all government givers between half five and half seven so if it's six hours it may have to be tabled for a different day the likelihood is we won't one that vote today and then it'll be two hours tomorrow between half five and half seven and at that we will get probably two to three amendments out of the 80 tables that's as sad as the situation is and then they'll be voted upon and we'll either get them or we won't get them we also have the shannot then which i believe is is scheduled for the 12th two to the 12th and at that we may get some further amendments through there but you know this lands on the president's desk eventually doesn't it as well this lands on the president's desk at some point as well presumably does it i believe so but you know again this is all largely token gestures from that stage and rubber stamp right michael listen thanks for your time this morning okay you mentioned shin fame spokesperson housing oan obrin um i wonder is the deputy with me now you are there oan good morning to you morning how are you i'm good thank you and thanks for joining us and holding there appreciate your patience so um you heard from michael there just on the formation of a new party whatever it might be called and i put it to him i'm not sure if you were on the call at this stage that that's kind of a blunt instrument and it's not impossible they could run a candidate in north in ishown and displace patrick mcgloughlin who has been very vocal in their support i mean what's the parties now that's just an example that's no disrespect to the deputy or or whatever but you know you're you know yourself the way elections go i mean what's your reaction to that not the scenario i created but the fact that it's a blunt instrument that they're doing it example for example for example but i think the fact that the the mic action group are even discussing it shows the level of frustration they have with the process we have never advised the group on what their campaign strategies or tactics should be and we're not going to do it now but i do think it shows the absolute loss of faith that they have particularly the government parties and in the process that they have been through over the last year or so but look ultimately their campaign tactics or strategies are matter for themselves and we'll not interfere with that right now as it relates to uh today's vote the discussion on how long is afforded to this like again this is nothing to against fina fall against finna gale the greens it's not proscien fail or independence but i'm speaking as a as a person in this country i don't understand how we can only dedicate two hours to a multi-annual minimum 2.7 billion euro piece of legislation which is incredibly technical we are uh accepting this without actually knowing the full facts i am struggling completely outside of politics and media and interviews to understand the logic in that and i have to say i think this is one of the most important points to be made today um normally for example in our committee when we're dealing with complex legislation we would do 9 to 12 hours of committee and committee is both about tabling amendments trying to convince the minister of improvements in the bill but it's also a really important opportunity to tease out the meaning of the bill because there's a lot of things that still aren't very clear here but also to get the minister to put on the record his intentions with respect to regulations because in fact a lot of this scheme whether it's the damage threshold uh or whether it's it's is465 review there are things that will come afterwards so i've been appealing to deputies from across the floor over the last number of days privately i've been saying to them whether you agree with this bill or not how can you justify up to three billion euros if not more than three billion euros of eventual expenditure crammed into two hours in my you know time as a tedious since 2016 i have never seen such a large sum of public money being shoehorned into such a small period of consideration of this we were already denied full pre-legislative scrutiny although thankfully we forced the hearings that we had a couple of weeks ago but that in and of itself was inadequate although better than nothing this committee stage is the most important and i have to say like we sat down and we looked at the amendments and there's probably about nine key areas which i think there should be votes on now we might get through as Michael said a couple of those tonight we might get through more in the shanard but even then we'll have limited time to scrutinize to interact and to then for the record to show deputy by deputy who voted on what side because ultimately that's what democracy is about so i just think it's not just that this is scandalous this is reckless in the extreme to ram this through in this way without proper consideration particularly of the very thoughtful and considered amendments that the homeowners have put forward not just from the go but mayo and claire and sly go and limberick and the other counties as well is it possible that time could be eaten up to avoid perhaps some of the more contentious amendments being discussed in the doll i presume the government parties might take the hit in the shanard because of the attention that might be on it but in the doll you know as i mentioned to Michael there i presume there are those on the west coast that would like the off ramp of saying well listen you know it we didn't get chance for it you know i would have said this or i would have said that in other words you know it's not plausible to my ability but you know where i'm coming from yeah there will be votes at the minimum when the two hours if we don't win the vote today and if we don't get extra time tomorrow and that's a big if because we're working on that behind the scenes as i know other opposition parties are and the homeowners but if we only get the two hours at the end of that two hours there is a vote and if no amendments have been accepted our position is very clear the homeowners in a united statement last week have said without substantive amendment they won't support this game and if they're not supporting the bill we won't be supporting it so there will be at least one vote tomorrow at the end of the two hours i suspect we'll probably get another two votes sure the government can try and fill your buster but the eyes of homeowners in the affected counties in the first instance will be watching but can i also say this because you discussed with Michael where public opinion was at i'm in Dublin i'm in a constituency where my constituents have all sorts of other pressures in their life not a single person has said to me that the homeowners in the western seaboard don't deserve fair play here in fact where i am and we have Celtic tiger defects of fire safety etc where there's no redress scheme the owners of those apartments are a hundred percent behind the families in donnie gollum mayo and claire and elsewhere because everybody accepts the basic principle if you buy something if it's broken you bring it back and you get a refund to get it replaced if that applies to the cheapest purchases in your life and you download apply to the single most expensive purchase in your life your home and there is also an anger out there like we have some amendments tabled on behalf of the homeowners to say why has nobody been held to account here why is is the government seeking to take the right of homeowners to take legal action against those responsible away from them where the state themselves aren't taking legal action or holding an inquiry or other such mechanism so actually i think notwithstanding the cost of living crisis that's out there but withstanding the housing and homelessness crisis i think most ordinary people no matter what county you're in are saying you know what those families aren't getting fair play and the no penalty downsizing is the clearest example of that you know martina hegari from mayo made it very very clear at our committee the week before last she lives in a modest home of 90 square meters she estimates she'll get 160 or 170 000 of a grant it will cost her 200 thousand euros minimum to rebuild she's 40 grand short she does not have that and as a generous compromise she has said let me take the 160 or 70 build a smaller home within the footprint that's a big concession for a homeowner who has done no wrong and not only is the government not allowing that in the legislation it is insisting that if you downsize the grant will be reduced which means martina hegari and the many people like her and dunagomeo and claire will be further penalized for actually trying to meet the government part of the way so i'm not pessimistic about public opinion there's a few trolls on twitter and sure the government is trying to manage the message people don't trust this government and they can see the inherent unfairness of people being left 10 20 30 40 000 euros for replacing like for like homes and therefore i actually think the public broadly is behind the homeowners in this instance right okay well it's going to be interesting a couple of days it's incredible incredibly difficult couple of days because i'm sure you're aware i'm not sure everyone is aware but you know that the pressure families are already under the uncertainty the fear and then obviously the trolling that's that's going on from some quarters but not knowing and and being made feel bad for just wanting you know what seems like a very basic request it's incredibly incredibly difficult for people affected by this and we have a small percentage that speak out and they're fantastic but i'm conscious there's thousands of people that listen to this show that that they're burst into tears as soon as they come on the phone lines because this is such a pressure on them and their families and their children can't be protected by it the children are writing essays at school and they're writing about mica because you can't protect the children from something that is so all consuming in your life it's it's it's devastating and i just hope that the human element of this is considered when when tds are voting on these matters and not just blocks and quarries and public money this is human beings and and greg can i give a direct commitment to every single one of those because many of those people have been emailing us directly as as tds whatever happens today tomorrow and in the shine of next week all of the campaign groups have said this isn't over and the commitment i and our party are giving is it is not over the eruptus housing committee on the other side of this legislation will have a responsibility to hold the government to account to ensure that they get the regulations right when the scheme is then introduced to scrutinize the scheme as it begins to operate and continue to argue for the changes that could be made this week and next but if they're not made will need to be made at some point in the future this is not over and all i would say to those families who have had to endure this scandal for a decade or more there are many of us in the eruptus particularly myself and my colleagues pierce the hearty part of mclaughlin and rose come by welch but there are others in other parties for whom this issue does not end with the passage of this legislation and we will continue to support the campaign groups and the affected homeowners and continue to fight for a redress scheme that does right by families these homeowners have done nothing wrong they should not be out of pocket and we need a redress stream that meets their needs and if we don't get it now we'll continue to fight until we do get it all right thanks very much for your time this morning that's oh no brinn deputy oh no brinn shin fame spokesperson on the housing what do you think 08 660 25 000 are you confident and i think this is a legitimate question because obviously in opposition you can promise us on the moon and the stars and i'm not saying you know it's being done uh i'm not questioning the motive of that but are you confident as a homeowner that if it's not right this time that if there is a change of government at the next election that it would be that all these promises would be followed through on uh what do you think message us on whatsapp uh to 08 660 25 000 you can also email the program if you want to go a bit longer format oh uh it's not it's not a number it's an email address it is comments at 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etbs an initiative of the government of Ireland remember a loved one with a personalized memorial acknowledgement or wallet card from bizprint using your choice of wording and background call in and speak to katharine and bizprint portfolio letter kenny or call 911 7995 this thursday the jive time show will be live from the 51st linen festival in remelton where they've got a great lineup of family entertainment and big band nights including derrick ryan the original voice of smoky chris norman and jimmy buckley so be sure to tune in this thursday to david james live from remelton for festival detail see linen festival on facebook okay you're very welcome back okay let's have a look at some of your comments won't take a piece of music heading up to 11 uh a caller says uh what do they say they say uh the behavior of people is very bad unacceptable guardian should call to people's houses more often and no harm in the guards having a chat with someone is that or does it relates to uh public order or noisy neighbors i'm not sure um we are so grateful to the blood bank sorry the blood bike northwest team and their colleagues in blood bike uh two colon is it and blood bike east for their help they gave us early this year when our twins were in n i c u in dublin after having been born very premature the team brought my breast milk from our home in donninggold to the hospital in dublin so the babies had a constant supply of milk during such a difficult time in our lives it was amazing to be able to rely on such a selfless team of volunteers wow i hope everyone's home and okay uh and what an amazing help out for you at that time uh obviously the the distance and how far you were it must have been so so tough with everything going on but to have these heroes they are aren't they uh to help you out like that it must be a um it it it is amazing uh and they are fantastic and fair play to lee gooch as well uh because he used his campaign his bed push uh for Noah uh to support blog the the the the bikers um and to also not only just to support them but to raise awareness of the fantastic work that they do uh went to get the covid vaccine last friday and bunkrana could not get them as i'm diabetic and have asked them i'm not on the list as needing to get the fourth vaccine that meant that my son and husband could not get vaccinated a disgrace that these were not included on the list okay hi Greg um if it isn't the right time i think it would be the right time to bring dublin to a halt this time and protest again yep it is it's i imagine it's on the cards i have no insight or affiliation um with the campaign itself i watch it like everyone else does but now there is a small there's a protest down there today but in terms of that next level protest i'm not sure the timing would be right now um necessarily but i don't know if this bill goes before the president for signing can he refer it to the court to decide if sufficient consideration was given to debating the merits or otherwise of the bill before being enacted into law the actions of government seem very underhand in this instance and of course um there is a question marked over um whether or not there's some conflictions or or whether or not uh there's um it's constitutional so yeah some of the elements of this uh bill but i presume i would you would hope wouldn't use it that will be uh scrutinized okay let's take should we take a piece of music uh we hear the good weather is on its way it's coming up from the south riding up from the south high pressure hopefully we are just the very very extreme of the country so hopefully it meets us um in the way that we want it to i think we deserve a bit of good weather don't we uh but it's on the way so uh hopefully now come at the end of the weekend into the weekend things will improve weather wise i will always remember the day you kiss my lips light as a feather with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the 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campaigners and effective block affected homeowners have to declare their intention to form a political party they have to clear their intention in the all today and have 28 days to finalize the details including the name of the party in tandem with that they're challenging all members of dunagall county council to publicly declare their support for the campaign and in particular the demand that at least nine hours be given to a discussion on the 80 amendments proposed to the bill ahead of a discussion tomorrow at present the time allocated is two hours michael daugherty of the mica action group says that was the last straw for the homeowners you can hear the whole of the conversation between michael and greg on the night until noon show on our website highlandvideo.com at dunagall gp says he doesn't want to scare people into receiving covid-19 booster vaccines but the reality is without them people will die dr. danis mccawley who chairs the i. m. o's gp committee says there's been some covid fatigue and in some instances he believes people have been explaining symptoms away as summer calls when in fact they probably have covid-19 on today's night until noon show dr mccawley said covid remains a serious threat and people still need to protect themselves and others in the british parliament controversial troubles legacy legislation has been voted through another stage mp's voted 282 to 217 to give it a third reading that's the majority of 65 it would stop inquests into troubles killings that haven't got to an advanced stage and also prevent new ones from happening boncronigar the are seeking information in relating to the tests of 27 yos 36 lambs and two hawket yos from balnahon in form the thefts believe to have occurred between june 15th and june 25th the breed of the sheep is swaledale not a very common breed within dunagall some of the sheep have red or blue spray on their backs and some have green spray on their heads ireland is at risk of not meeting a 51 cut in carbon emissions by 2030 that's according to a report published by wind energy ireland which says there needs to be a complete transformation of the planning system the report comes as dunagall county council discusses further restrictions to win the energy developments in the county development plan and opposition grows to a number of proposed wind farm developments within the county and the Irish fiscal advisory council says the government's decision to increase spending by 6.5 percent in the budget was needed but we're still a long way from chasing inflation a 6.7 billion euro package for budget 2023 was announced in the summer economic statement the watchdog's chairperson Sebastian Barns says there was a 5 percent limit in place for spending growth but he says we are currently in exceptional circumstances and the government's intentions are understandable and necessary and there are the headlines back with news headlines again at 12.0 okay donal thank you very much for that 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in price husband there one hour and 20 minutes ago seven euro went up per bag i took the call back again the staff couldn't be nice there and there's a genuine concern amongst coal suppliers that for the bigger bag when it hits like 50 kilogram of bag that it uh people simply won't buy it because how could you justify paying 50 euro for one bag of coal to heat it goes up you chip me it but it's to heat your house how could you justify that expense on a regular basis throughout the winter people are going to have to start buying turf and and wood uh because that price is unsustainable and i and think of the coal merchants because it's not their fault and it's not their fault at all they are having to pass on the costs to make any money at all um they want to see it come down they're not gouging they're it as soon as it goes up from the supplier they have to increase the prices but i presume they're looking to the winter and say who is going to be paying 50 euro for a bag of coal who has the resources to afford that very very few people i would suggest okay very short break here uh reach on us in a moment this summer disney plus brings you unbelievable entertainment for an unbelievable price stream marvel studios dr strange in the multiverse of madness i'm hurting disney's stunning animation in canto i will save the magic and don't miss the brand new season of critically acclaimed series only murders in the building oh my god disney plus all these plus more now streaming for only 8.99 a month 18 plus subscripts required teas and sees apply all right finna gale counselor barry sweeney joins us on the program now barry good morning to you good morning great right for our listeners now you were recently in brussels as a guest of your party colleague maria walsh m e p and of course the fishing industry height on the agenda and we were just talking about the rising costs of things like coal with every other challenge facing fishermen the rising cost of fuel that's got to be a factor too was that one of the the key elements of the conversation uh no it wasn't that entirely the key element we i was glad to go over on the invasive of maria walsh and we had a meeting um with um commissioner mary mcginnis mvp maria walsh and also sean kelly who were there in the room at the time and they just took the opportunity it was it it was really a conversation that was around food security energy security and and that it's the connection between europe and ireland and yeah they i just took the opportunity to raise the issue of the fishing industry now obviously one of the greatest challenges is that um and we're very much affected by this is that most of the fish uh in our waters has been divvied up against the big boys in europe and and we have to scrimp and scrape and and beg almost to to get any of our quarters uh did you make that point perhaps not in those words but did you make that point and what did you hear back yeah well um the the question i posed really was is island too small of a fish in the sea when it comes to negotiation on burden sharing and and really it is a crazy situation that we're in that we have the biggest water um sort of mass around our island and yet we have the smallest percentage uh in europe of uh of catch and in terms of our quarters and and it's not necessarily a lack of fish or shortage of fish in the sea but it's just what we're actually allowed to to catch and this is something that's been going on like for many many years even since we joined the um the european community back in the 70s so it's been further exacerbated of course the brexit where we lost quarter we lost um uh for their um ability to catch what we were previously catching and uh this is across all species of fish as well so um it's it's just a very difficult challenging situation that we're in and um it's really important that within europe that it's kept on the table and the dioramas voice is kept strong and as strong as possible in europe on this issue so um i mean the obvious with all due respect barry the obvious elephant in the room here is that um you know it's your government in power it's your government that's uh that negotiated and accepted uh the the quarters that this country have you know the many people listening saying well why doesn't uh your government stand up to to europe and say enough it's enough you know yourself uh the fishing industry in arland uh effectively were thrown under the boss to get brexit over the line you know where is our reward yeah well it was not a good deal for the fishing industry and there's no doubt about that and if people do feel aggrieved fishing families do feel aggrieved by that and uh it was obviously part of a bigger deal that was was organized and the fishing industry came out the worst and that's why you know with this point in time uh we and people within this my my party the finnegale party are working really hard to try and um further negotiate and alleviate some of the problems and whether that be through uh assistance from grant aid through brexit adjustment fund etc like that or um you know the real thing is is getting getting further quotas and you know we we had there has been great investment and i'll say in the last uh within the last year in terms of infrastructure for pears harbours etc but as i said that number of meetings we can have the finest fleets the finest uh pears and harbours and facilities which we do have and done it all with a fantastic um workforce and facilities and infrastructure in place but it's no good without the fish and that's where we need to be fighting uh harder and harder and that is ongoing i know this um for some representatives open uh from dunnegale just last tuesday and with all uh speaking to at a parliamentary party meeting in relation to how to proceed and how to move forward and i believe uh tarnastilio quadco has has been briefed when he was in on his visit to dunnegale recently he did guess uh he got it in the year about the um about the fishing industry and of course uh he can do to help business to help the fishing business and the businesses that depend on the fishing industry uh within dunnegale and all those communities in terms of action like what what what happens because we're because you know we're talking about the problems that are i i think people know you can add into that really uh you know the the fishing authority making life very difficult already as well for people uh in kitty bags that's internal it's not necessarily external so what what is going to change obviously the common fisheries policy negotiations are ongoing we had other organizations out making the case with our friends in europe they talk about the importance of ireland to the union maybe it's just our only importance is is protecting the border and stop uk goods coming into uh europe via the republic you know like where's the fair play in this where are they saying there's wow okay there's landlocked countries with uh bigger fishing quarters in ireish water the norland itself where is the fair play here why did we have to take all of the pain to get brexit over the line i'll ask that question again you know were you given any assurances that something's going to change i was not given any assurances but um that is the question that's been asked why are we at the bottom wrong of the ladder and that's why i asked the question are we too small of a fishing receipt and of course we have with the big boys of europe you know you have you've you've France you've Belgium and these you've many uh countries who have uh the rice to fish more irish fish in irish waters than we have to fish in our own waters and that's that's just not right but that's something that's going back uh for decades and decades and it's a huge it's a huge fight it's not going to be easy for for other countries to give up their quota to give up um their share and it's it's it's not good and you know there's another little interesting point you know which i'd like to make um if we were increasing our own quota on say uh uh on the blue icing uh there's that's one of the fish this is relatively cheap to to process to buy and to sell on and with the situation at the moment with the ukrainian we're not going to get the same food that's coming we can see disasters down the line there and if Ireland had for the quota to to fish more blue icing we could supply african countries and the the systems are in place there the transport systems the the processing systems are all in place but you don't have to be acutely aware of as i talked about the the the fishing authority to be aware obviously that uh much of the food that blue whiting that they're trying to uh feed into the food chain ended up becoming fish meal or whatever it's used for because uh they were being forced to to drain the water out of the tanks but listen um hopefully uh with all these meetings and with all these concerns being raised something positive might happen thank you for your time this morning barry i appreciate it thank you all right take care of councillor barry sweeney there off the back of his recent trip to uh brussels what time are they discussing the amendment for mike in the doll today are the times we're given i don't want to mislead anyone was it half five to half seven let me double check that so that you don't tune in in vain this text just says our local tally tans team in boncran i do a fab job i live near swan park and seen them last saturday as usual attending the flower boxes on westbrook bridge i'm disgusted this morning to hear on your show if the damage done to them over the way over the weekend hope the culprits are found and they'll find and you know we've an amazing team and this is not just words i'm not just spewing this out because i'll be driving to work uh quite early not as early as some of course and see people out voluntarily cleaning up their local community after you know busy nights in tans you see them picking stuff up the counselor out there as well but it's easy to sort of differentiate between the tally tans crews uh and the council crews uh and often it's a person out on their own and they're amazing they really are um and they do fantastic work and what a slap in the face it is for that work to be undone probably through drink probably woke up the next morning and and laughed about it or said oh that was some crack or maybe even regretted it who's to say maybe wouldn't it be lovely if they came forward and said look i did something silly here here's some money for you know to replant these flowers that would be that would be good it'd be uh stepping up i got my fourth vaccine but was very sick for three days with each one first three were astrazeneca last two were Pfizer never again and pretty much the point that i put to the doctor and he accepts that that's going to be the case right okay here's an interesting one what if the donated breast milk is from a person with health issues or genetic problems or someone on drugs well firstly it's supplied through a blood sample and it's screened and it's pasteurized listen not gonna they're in the interest of in saving babies they're not going to be given any babies contaminated milk we would hope and in a way we know they wouldn't because of the blood tests but this call assess i could never give my baby a stranger's breast milk with with all the treatments that are in it an advanced vegan milk for premature babies we should have the choice more research and science do you agree with that i i don't know if you've ever been that in position in that position but um i certainly have um and you have a baby in uh born premature um being kept alive by machines clinging to clinging to life by a thread and if someone said to me there's uh milk from someone else and that will give your baby a chance of surviving because remember they can't tell you everything's going to go good uh i wouldn't be saying what's in it uh or um you know can we try vegan milk you know put yourself in that situation i'll be saying okay whatever it takes to try and get this little person home but anyway that's just one view my view what's yours oh eight six six sixty twenty five thousand what's absent texts will give us a call and oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand did you know four hundred and thirty nine complaints were made to the taxi regulator since november most of them relating to passengers being overcharged this is nationally by the way and i'm not sure what proportion if any came from donnie gall but some of the other complaints that were made to the taxi regulator were and could you be motivated to do this i'm not sure i could bad smells someone was so upset with bad smells quite a number of people that they made complaints sticky door handles would be one that would put me off now stained back seats they also featured among the complaints which were contained in a report from the national transport authority taxi drivers say it's unacceptable but add some passengers have picked their nose vomited or dragged mud into their cars i've been in a lot of taxis over the years and i have to say i can't recall problems like that in any one of them i always thought the drivers had seemed to have a great pride in their vehicle even late at night i've never encountered any of the problems that some people have maybe it's just that we've got a really good taxi link taxi service up here in donnie gall driving a fiat 500d is choosing an all-new all-electric car with an impressive range and not 80 fast charging in 30 minutes it's choosing a car that's so full of tech it will confidently and safely drive you into the next decade it's choosing to believe in a better tomorrow welcome back future fiat 500d prices start at 24,995 euro after government subsidies book a test drive at joseph darty limited mobile or visit fiat.ie sabrina rob here from donnie gall hearing clinic if you're struggling to hear everyday conversations or find it difficult to understand people in a crowded room you may have hearing loss problems like these are common and we're used to helping people resolve them we offer hearing assessments and we'll discuss your options you can call us on 074 91 88 470 or visit donnie gall hearing clinic dot e life sounds brilliant with donnie gall hearing clinic letter kenny and bunkranna park ron has taken my run into the next level it's a good opportunity to catch up and meet friends and make new friends as well it's how i got introduced into the local running club just known as there every week no matter what stage you're at i find it's a much healthier approach to running i'm dav and i'm a park runner vhi believes park ron is more than running that's why we're their biggest supporter join us every week at your local park ron okay let's say good morning now to linda how are you linda good morning greg how are you i'm okay now what is your are you highlighting today with us linda okay i'm i'm highlighting the issue of the fact that uh i can't get through to nobody in the canning hospital except the switchboard to ask about a friend a neighbor and a man that i kind of care about and look after and check up on although he's very independent and you know i'm just there and he went into hospital on friday evening and i left but it didn't get in touch with nobody i left it till saturday morning so i rang him saturday morning rang the hospital got through i was waiting ages and ages and eventually a clerk ward answered the phone and he knew nothing about nobody in the ward he knew nothing about the patients and i was trying to say well like honey they answered the phone and i said that there's covid we're all locked down we can't get through to nobody where we're not allowed to visit how are we supposed to know how our loved ones are doing in there and how scared are they now this man's 85 years of age and he's got no relatives here in ireland at all all his sons and daughters live in england and he's going to england tomorrow so i left it yesterday and around this morning i've been ringing all morning they won't answer the phone and the ward at all so this is not an issue with you being next of kin it's literally you no no no there's no answer the people are not answering the phone and i've tried to ring in his mobile i got through in his mobile he rang me on saturday actually after the nurse spoke to me he rang me i didn't get talking to him on saturday so he rang me from his mobile so i've been ringing his mobile all morning a neighbour and friend of mine is after ringing me there now he's been ringing all morning and yesterday was the same and he never got through to nobody yeah and you just want to check in on him sorry you just want to check in on him to make sure he's okay so he knows that there are people out there that care for him as well he's exactly he's 85 and he's in there alone and knows nobody and i know what he's like he's a big baby like an you know he must be terrified which is very distressing for you too it's very distressing and it's horrible there should be somebody man on their phones 24 seven four people and keeping people updated on how everybody's doing we're not that short of people looking for jobs in this country i'm a qualified care of over 30 years experience and you know i couldn't get a job with a care or a phone operator just to answer phones and one of the words there's not that many words in the hospital surely they could get somebody to man the phones even from about ten in the morning that's interesting yeah a dedicated person that isn't distracted by all the duties that they are there to liaise with loved ones and family and friends exactly and that's so missing and everybody must be feeling that's not just me this is only me and one person and what about other people who have big families and big relatives that can't get through yeah do you know does his family know that he's in hospital i don't know i don't know anything else except that he told me on saturday i didn't even know he hadn't seen the doctor and he said he was dehydrated yeah so i haven't heard nothing about nobody getting home like i mean is it is do they have your number or he has it so no i don't know what's happening he's got a flight booked for england tomorrow he's going home to his family and i'm hoping they either get him to stay there or they'll put me in charge of him over here at care yeah you just make yes you say he's independent and stuff but you just thinking he's very independent he's an official man and he loves not give too much we're not give too much away about the gentleman linda and i know you care very much for him by the way but just in case it identifies him at this time yeah i just worry about how he's feeling i've just worked like is he thinking you know linda doesn't care or uh you know where's his phone i mean i rang him on saturday and he said so i've been ringing him all morning and so is my friend and we don't want to disturb nobody i mean if there's people sleeping things like that you don't want to have phones ringing all of the time i understand and you don't want to sort of him look at the phone and there's 40 missed calls and then be worried that something else has happened i get where you're coming from right so what it would take is someone just to run up and say look i've checked on uh greg will call him i've checked on greg and he's all right and we'll let you know if he's able to get out tomorrow that's that's you're not looking for a print off of these musical records somebody would answer the phone greg yeah they're not answering the phone yes okay and the hospital and for people that aren't allowed in relatives nobody's right why not simple question why not but the practical thing too this go ahead linda go ahead what they're saying no how else are we supposed to know how many people are doing them didn't think we don't care about them like yeah because also the reason it doesn't make sense either to me is that like let's just say there were five people ringing the hospital surely it'd make more you know five family members of friends surely it'd make more sense to answer a call and say right linda are you going to be the designated contact and you could say yes if you give me the info i'll know what to do or i'll pass it on to whoever else needs to know like it would make an awful lot more sense that they could then manage the volume of calls yes yes it would save everybody a lot of bother everybody and i mean the nurses must be dived with phone ringing they must be i mean i know they're in the wards i mean i've been a carer i know they're in there i know they're listening and all the patients can hear the phones so like what's going on why aren't they answering the phones and i know your primary concern is your friend but obviously linda this is uh causing you know upset and and worry for you as well and he's not even a relative of mine how would it be if it was my father my mother or my son or daughter or whatever all right okay well listen you know hopefully somebody's listening um and you're not looking for the ins and outs you're just looking for confirmation that he's okay or what's his status or has he had a turn or is he coming out you know you know nothing and no one knows nothing going to hang on tomorrow or not because if we miss this flight and then what are they going to do is going to send him home while you need a care while you you know what i'm saying i understand and i don't know why if i can't get in touch with him and me up the road from there can i how is his family in england feeling how are they going to get in touch with him okay right linda listen thanks for that all right take care all right hopefully it gets sorted no no no i understand okay right linda hope something comes of that all right uh similar experiences 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310 schools with 60 000 students are being added to the desh program in september that's delivering equality of opportunity in schools it provides access to a range of additional supports and school meals while desh schools are funded by the department of education school meals are provided under the department of social protection budget a spokesperson for the department of social protection confirmed that funding is only available in 2022 for the 884 desh schools which are currently in the program and not the 310 new schools now i'm not sure how many of any of those are in our part of the world uh the statement we're time to say that any provision to extend the program to the newly added schools to the desh program will be considered as part of budget 2023 school principles in some of the 310 new desh schools have expressed frustration that their pupils will miss out on free school lunches uh someone forgot to put it in the budget and i think this is just shocking said louise toben principal of st joseph's primary school in tipperary town okay so uh i don't know as i say if any local desh schools new sketch desh schools are uh included right we're joined on the program now uh by councillor terry cross and to talk to discuss uh them off to derry greenway good morning terry thanks for joining us good morning great how are you i'm not doing too bad right so do we get did we get any update on when this new greenway will uh begin work on it might begin yeah well um the project is at the moment are to tender there my information is there are six tenders in um the tendering process should be completed by the end of july early august and uh work should begin in the autumn time was completion in uh around about december 2023 because there's a section of this route on the other side of the border the northern side of the border which is up it's ready to go it's almost uh ready to go as we we're just waiting on the completion of the tendering process and then it will go ahead and head on everything's in place there are no delays anticipated all the funding is in place they could go from the old border bridge along the colonial road down past colmore point road up onto the main colmore road there will be a small off-shoot up to the entrance of the hollybrush primaries and it will continue on into where it meets the existing greenway behind the point hospice and is there a requirement for a new bridge here or is there an existing bridge there there is a small issue uh regarding what is known as the bay road bridge and that is currently under planning they don't uh in any problems and it entails a new 60 meter span bridge along the pinnage point right between the killings it's pure and in space but there is no major issues uh in position and they are expecting planning to go uh something towards the end of the summer yeah and i mean i presume once completed this will be a great resource for locals but you know there's a big uh walking tourism market out there as well it's somewhat unique in that it's perhaps cross border uh you know it should be good for the area yeah it's a very exciting project hopefully it will be a tremendous cross border asset and when it's completed it will go uh potentially all the way from moff to shagons lovely stuff okay listen thank you very much indeed counselor i appreciate your time this morning that's cancer terry crossley give us an update on the moff to derry greenway we were talking yesterday about the charging infrastructure as it relates to electric cars well 15 million euros been announced for shared island electric vehicle charging infrastructure scheme doesn't seem like a lot of cash but anyway we're told that the project will deliver publicly accessible ev charging points in sports clubs and centres on an all island basis by providing grant funding via the national sports governing bodies the scheme will enable the installation of uh interoperable ev charging infrastructure on both sides of the border with up to 90 rapid ev charging points delivered in sports locations across the island and it's really important at this point that we're only putting in rapid ev charging points uh the scheme will contribute to the implementation of the government's ev charging infrastructure strategy we're told for installation of each charging points at destinations and residential locations it will also support the requirement under the strategy to promote the parallel development of aligned standards and the use of interoperable technologies and digital systems on the island so you know those kind of announcements and maybe i've been at this game too long is i'll believe it when i see it because we know there are areas like say for instance big areas like our draw on the wild atlantic way that last time we checked didn't have an electric charging point are you writing about by the way charging your vehicle what's the reliability like the availability like back in the day we used to suffer with problems like you know people who are parking petrol cars in ev spots and that type of problem or people rolling up to a public charging point and it not working are we making any improvements or any inroads in that regard i know there are some driving apps that are good i'm told at updating that information and keeping drivers informed but again if you're an ev driver let us know what it's like out there oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand of course the big ev pushes to try and get our carbon emissions down by 2030 and i know too that arland is at risk of not meeting a 51 cut in carbon emissions by 2030 and i suggest we won't but anyway the government's been warned in a new report that will not be achieved unless there's a complete transformation of the planning system the report published by wind energy arland points out that some progress has been made but it also states that existing strategies plans and targets needed need to be stepped up okay we'll see what comes from that oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand is uh the whatsapp line uh give us a call on 07491 25 thousand right okay uh we have been contacting our local tds in the donningall area uh and we're asking them what is your position on the defective concrete block scheme and will you be voting with the government uh in favour of the scheme effectively if home owners are not happy so we've phoned all five to see if we can get an answer from them uh it's a general question it doesn't get into the specifics uh but we just wanted to get our local tds on the record again so first we contacted independent deputy thomas pringle he says i won't be voting with the government's legislation it's wrong and we'll have to go with it again so independent thoma thomas pringle uh voting nil uh we were on to shin fein two their representatives here part McLaughlin and pierce daherty uh we will be voting with home owners at home owners they say we are in total support so they will not be voting uh with uh government on this new legislation uh we've been trying to make contact with minister charlotte mcconnellog and deputy joe mcqueen we've left messages with them uh we don't know their response yet okay so we have three on the record we're still awaiting the words from charlotte mcconnellog and joe mcqueen now i'm not saying by the way in fairness that they are ignoring our calls it may be that there could be a cabinet meeting or there could be another meeting or there could be on holidays okay uh so at this point we're not presuming anything from their lack of reply but we have independent thomas pringle and both shin fein deputies saying they will be voting backing home owners uh thomas pringle saying it's wrong we'll have to go with it again the two shin fein reps stating that they will be backing home owners and we just have yet to receive any response from uh deputy finnegale deputy joe mcqueen or indeed um funeral minister charlotte mcconnellog okay let's go to john toy now hi john hello great how's it going i'm good it's nice to meet you again right okay tell us about uh the barn dances that you have hosted uh there was one in 2016 one in 2017 a huge night so what were the four and uh tell us about a bit about the the two that went before john we're going in 2016 there we had a barn dance here we had um david craig band and there is that year 2000 or 26 000 euros for charity very huge um uh quite a people here in the night over beyond all our expectations we weren't expecting what come in the night and the night went well and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves and had great results from it so then um 2017 um the cry got bigger the the earnings got bigger more money raised up to 31 000 that year and that's where it all kicked off from so what is the difference between a barn dance and sort of a a dance in the allingham or something uh yeah it's more i posed years ago there was barn dances and different farms around the neighborhoods going back 50 60 years ago that people older people in the area would remember that kind of set it away and then comes back every now and again to different places so we can decide that we'll have a go with it too and this is where we are now fantastic stuff and you did did i hear you correctly 58 000 euros been raised is that right 31 17 26 000 and 2016 so you're talking the area 57 000 yeah for two years that's really really impressive now um a third barred dance is taking place on saturday the ninth of july so it's the first one in five years there's a bit of pent up frustration there i'd imagine uh an anticipation of people wanting to get out and have a bit of fun um and the charities are interesting because a lot of them are local charities and and maybe projects that don't necessarily you know they can be hard to organize fundraising for individuals so talk to us about the charities that will benefit or the projects that will benefit uh john i won't do yet well you sit there with the five-year break we were planning to go here in 2020 but the covid so then we put back per year to 2021 and the covid still was here so now 2022 we're finally getting our heels up the ground and getting running again here now it's hard tonight um this year how you the charities is um basically the first charity there that appears on the ticket high as our local chapels are all chapel there but if there's got that there's an old building and it's starting to show just the effects of the years and there's a huge cam the priest the local priest here fundraising to get the chapel and use the wall storm and give it back to its form of the way it was years ago when our ancestors built the chapel years ago the second one then has a good new cancer bus there and that um basically has a free service for cancer patients there cancer treatment there and that runs up on a monday morning and comes home on a friday evening and takes them patients up and down free of charge there the second or the third one then on the ticket is there were mohi barry's church here down in malacanica again that's an old building and they're just doing general basic ongoing maintenance and refurbishment work like you know to keep keep the building in place and then they have the local community counseling services that's basically here the raffle and st johnson family resource center they provide their counseling services for people maybe it's a little bit on the weather after the cold or for different reasons and they do a great job there for the local community for people who is not just themselves and that's to create the awareness that those facilities exist in the area and the kina work raffle ones and johnson work hand in hand they help them all out and they don't get a lot of funding from the government they depend on like the ease and donations and things that are free that's what jumped out at me from the the list of of charities and uh projects is that you know um we all know i suppose that the major ones but it's good to see uh such a big event being focused on on local and and they're all needy but you know where i'm coming from right okay so where where's the dance where's the dance taking place well there's one more charity there no problem no problem at all i got you a phone on the boundary at Presbyterian church there last beast in a phone again they're the same the same situation as the other two churches all baldens leading ongoing maintenance refurbishment one thing another plus just the non-going never never ended less you know with old baldens and yourself yeah so talk to me about this event uh saturday the ninth of july who's performing saturday the ninth of july with three live bands here the first one there is it and killing brown there from all the faith there so he's kicking off and out the young father kicking off the night around eight o'clock and then we have around ten shaman peters will be coming on stage and he will be finishing up around 12 or half 12 and then everybody will create band on them from around that half 12 one o'clock to late all right okay and um big songs what what what's what was the most popular songs in 2016 2017 what got them out on the floor john hi the floor don't move two years the floor never will ever come to me i think i i don't know i don't know any big song in particular just the i was a very enjoyable night and the floor kept falling the band played to the floor with david james they owned david james here in 2017 as well and two two major nights just yeah all right now come here um uh what was going to ask you yeah where is it i don't know if we mentioned where it is okay um um our town land here is west here we were in farmyard high in west here manor conagins about two and a half miles from manor roundabout from to the countryside there but it won't be soundposted well soundposted on the right from that there and there'll be no carbon fighting the way up high if you just keep following the car and fucking you and your car eventually arrive at the farmyard here what would be the first car john i don't know why that's something else i'm always here to try and find out problems and is it indoors or outdoors or what that's a huge huge share there it's a three or four shares all combined there's one shared and um two marquises there ruffinum but bear in mind it just happens here for walk and walk so there's a huge amount of wise and a huge amount of preparations we don't want to ask but also at the same time i know you still have it spick and spam but at the same time there's an authenticity there this is a bar and dance this isn't a bar and dance in the lounge of a bar this is a bar and dance in a barn and i would imagine you get a great mix of age groups because obviously you know the music that you've got lined up it appeals to people of all ages from the very young to the uh not so young yes well it's funny if you tell that uh great because um this year we do have a huge age group um the fourth packet was for a 92 year old man second number one and he can quickly get back over again and then on the that's the room and then on the Friday night we're having a children's bar and dance so then you're going to have the very young with that and the children are accompanied by their parents or a grandparent or a guardian of some some description and it's a free event here been hosted on the Friday night come on half six to half yet all right fantastic stuff right where do people get their tickets did they just roll up on the day you can you can roll up on the day and pay it to get them there's tickets are on sale there's different outlets around the county have them on sales local shops and i'll have them they're available here they're in my own yard or in house here and they're also available online there through your link on the facebook page is it right is is is is there a bar there um john or is it a there's a bar definitely a bar ready two bars a very very good bar give me the directions again so the postcourt is in the ticket is F9 to C9 C9 listen i think it's going to be i think it's going to be great the weather actually is coming uh good listen we're not we're not the sunny southeast but we're going to have good weather for it as well as you say it's it's covered indoors but it makes it all just a much more enjoyable experience there's great entertainment lined up the charities that benefit are Dramahal Chapel Chapel fund uh Ray Machi or Maki parish church how do you pronounce that sorry Ramachi yeah Ramachi St. Johnston Raphael family resort resource center cancelling service the good and new cancer boss and Raphael and Balandrate Presbyterian church already uh two bar and dances have taken place uh 57 58 000 euro raise hopefully you'll match that it sounds like it's going to be fantastic john and well done it's let's say it really sounds like it's going to be fun all right take care of yourself all right that is uh john toy there let's see if we can get you in the mood for that i don't know if this is appropriate or not one two three four jump down turn around pickabella day all right that's uh derrick ryan pickabella cotton i can i can imagine my arms being pulled out of the sockets at a bar and dance to that i think that's appropriate i think i did all right there all right good to hear derrick on the show of course and thanks to john uh for highlighting his event he looks like he's looking forward to it or sounds like he's looking forward to it himself and why not 57 000 over the last two bar and dances hopefully they'll be able to uh match that again people are so generous you know um out there today especially with the cost of living crisis that everyone's enduring obviously some more than others but it just put me in mind as we were listening to that jive song of the jive for june the total's not in yet but it was heading in the direction of 100 000 euro people who took part in the jive for june uh there was events organized over in london and elsewhere and it's just remarkable all the money hasn't been counted yet but it was pushing 100 k and what an amazing what an amazing achievement that is and that's all down to the generosity of the people of the northwest and i'm sure they'll be at the bar and dance there in great numbers having a great night i think that'll attract a lot of people from quite a distance as well you know because it's kind of unique all right more of your comments to come on the program but we do have to take a really quick break stay where you are i'm not the kind of person who wants to sit in a metal box i don't want to slowly die in traffic i want to ride a motorbike and i want to keep riding a motorbike i don't want to suddenly die in traffic i'm not the kind of person who wants to lie in a wooden box biking is a joy don't let it kill you a third of bikers who have died on our roads were speeding so ease off the throttle and keep within the speed limit from the road 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evening program with power hour plus and of course the team the news team will keep you updated throughout the course of the afternoon as well right as i mentioned to some of your comments here now hi greg totally agree with the last caller my mother now deceased and may she rest in peace she was taken in seriously ill to surgical two last month we were assured by a nurse that if we called at 7 30 am we would get an update called literally 15 times and by 11 a.m had to drive personally from malinhead a one hour drive to see for myself was she okay or not seen it first hand it is a shambles and it's a very very difficult time that of course because your mother's been taken away from you for treatment of course and as it turns out very sadly it was in the last stages of our life and all you want is a bit of information one way or other to see how things are going but this is another example of a caller who simply could not get through to find out how their partner sorry their mother was what does he expect says this caller the government ministers to do go against the government that's a cheap shot i presume this is directed at michael or maybe uh oh no brinn uh listen to the other man the charters of arland is not going to change regardless of what party is working away in there there is a scheme out there and it's not going to be a hundred percent for everyone but there will be a lot of people who will be availing of it regardless of who is in government but the idea is is that the scheme is changed so it is a 100 percent for as many people as possible if we're giving in on um governments being able to change schemes or have any control on it well that's democracy at the window all together isn't it if it's just the way it's going to be regardless of who's in government well what do we vote for some would argue uh i would say well that's a really good question but we shall see we shall see well how that goes another caller says i was shocked years ago to hear that my cousin who's in a good job and her husband who has his own business their children get free lunches etc as they go to a desk school and they live in a disadvantage areas and believe me they don't the desk school are decided by uh numbers of people in the area who are unemployed i'm not sure that's exactly the criteria but anyway um they don't have to buy a book or a pencil most families who are unemployed qualify for the back to school allowance which more than covers a national school uniform well that's not really quite true uh that the back to school allowance is quite narrow not everyone can apply for it it's not quite narrow it's somewhat narrow but let's not forget here we're talking about children and we're talking about children having the best start in life and if that means that some people that don't necessarily need free books uh or don't necessarily need free lunches do we throw the baby out with the bath water the desk scheme is to ensure as many children as possible have equal opportunities in life it's their very first start at life personally for me uh if five uh students and families get the supports they need and two families get the supports that they don't need i'm going to focus on those that have been helped to be honest with you because as far as i'm concerned the most important thing we have is our children and uh i just want them to be as supported and as happy as is possible could you please find out concerning evs what happens when the battery may give out after eight years or 150 thousand kilometers and how much does it cost to get a new replacement battery um i presume that varies from um that varies from make to make i'm not sure if uh they give in after eight years or 150 000 miles i think you'll find that's the warranty and in a petrol or diesel car uh you know you have a similar uh limited warranty in other words eight years or 150 000 kilometers or it could be three years and 100 000 kilometers dependent on the vehicle so uh i wouldn't see the um warranty on a vehicle meaning that once that warranty expires or the time expires that the vehicle is of no use so the batteries need replacing uh there are plenty of older electric vehicles that um are still running fine and still have a decent battery capacity so i don't know the answer to that question um at that point are they maybe it's not practical for them to have the batteries replaced i don't know uh in terms of the you know long range vehicles i'm not sure any of them are eight years old so there probably is a bit of uncertainty there right i've got time for a quick one it's a pity whether forecasters can't advise on putting washing out for noon afternoon or not to bother at all where they talk of heat waves they're not talking about donagall rain for us on saturday yeah but listen look at your app and it will have a cloud with a few drops coming out of it don't forget that could be rain just in the very early part of the day it could be fine for the rest of the day okie doke listen that's where we have to leave it on the program today thanks to all of you who listen to the show watch the program message text it's really appreciated it's really really good