 In refusing planning permission, the council says the planning authority was not satisfied based on the information submitted, whereby no direct pedestrian access from the site to Strenorder Town and associated amenities, all of which are located on the same side of the road, has been provided for so that pedestrians can safely access existing services. The council added that, accordingly, to permit the development as proposed would materially contravene the policy set out in the seven strategic towns local area plan, would by itself and president endanger public safety by the reason of a traffic hazard and would therefore be contrary to proper planning and sustainable development of the area. The council in addition says the planning authority was not satisfied on the basis of the excessively high density proposed and the submitted layout scheme that adequate traffic safety issues can be accommodated. The doll has been told that insurance costs continue to cripple people. Shenvi and finance spokesperson Dunningall Deputy Pierce Doherty says a properly functioning insurance market is vital. Speaking during statements on insurance reform, Deputy Doherty says despite the number of claims falling by 25 percent, insurance costs are on the rise. He says all sectors are being severely impacted. Motor insurance premiums remain too high. Liability insurance for small businesses, for voluntary groups and for community organisations remain in a state of crisis. Between 2013 and 2020, premiums for the employer liability component of packages policies increased by 44 percent, while premiums for public liability component rose by 25 percent. Since 2009, premiums in the arts entertainment and recreation sector have more than doubled. Whether or not this morning will be mostly cloudy, but through the afternoon a few bright or sunny periods it will develop, and highest temperatures today are 15 to 18 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio. News for now will be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Not available online, subject to availability Tuesdays, June 13th to July 24th. The Ninetal Noon Show with letter Kenny Credit Union, now offering myCU current account and debit mastercard, bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest. The Ninetal Noon Show with Greg Hughes and a very good morning to you. Just turning four minutes past nine on this Thursday, the 23rd of June. How are you keeping? I hope you are all well and hopefully you're with us here for the next three hours in the program and throughout the day here on your number one local radio station, Highland Radio. The lines are open for you as they are every morning from 9 08 660 25,000 watts apps and texts and you can use that number anytime you like, by the way, and we can pick those messages up. 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A former secretary of the Fanat Development Association has confirmed that following public anger back then, an agreement was finally brokered and minuted with the Donegal Motor Club to ensure that the community would never again be locked into their homes for lengthy periods to accommodate three stages of the rally. It's also been confirmed that the agreement was brought to the notice of the Donegal Motor Club ahead of this year's rally and they were requested to adhere to that. However, no action was taken and there was no call backs in response to the complaints raised the paper is told. Much more in that story on the front of and inside that paper this morning. We'll turn our attention now to the Donegal Democrat and it was certainly a long time coming, but pupils and staff at St Mary's National School, Stranawler finally made their big move to their wonderful new school yesterday. The 24 classroom schools located on a 2.2 acre site opposite the Finn Valley Centre in Stranawler. The 8 million euro project came about after many years of proverbial blood, sweat and tears from staff, board of management and local representatives as well as 24 state of the art classrooms over three floors. The new St Mary's known also as Skolmora features hard surface play courts, a grass playing field and extensive car parking. An exciting day, an exciting end to the year really I suppose for students and teachers and they're all set to go for the new term. Very exciting indeed. Right the Donegal news this morning, the number of people being treated in letter Kenney University Hospital for COVID is continuing to rise more than doubling in just over one week. There are currently 37 patients being treated in hospital for COVID. This compares with 17 last week. Now I'm not sure if the information is available to say they're all being treated for COVID or if it's a mixture of people with COVID or those who are found to have COVID, but the paper suggests it's 37 patients are being treated actually for COVID. One ward continues to be impacted by outbreaks and the delivery of some services has been scaled back with elective procedures having seen postponements because of the impact on bed capacity and as a result of the impact of COVID-19 emergency department activities. On to the dairy news now and one of two women described as being members of an organised stealing to order gang was remanded in custody at Dairy Magistrates Court yesterday on a number of theft charges. Nadine Johnson who's 37 in the Gallia area of the city appeared charged with four counts of stealing alcohol and clothing on dates on June of this year. She was also charged with going equipped for theft with pliers, a hammer and tin foil on Monday of this week, June 20th and a charge of handling stolen goods on the same date. Let's go to the nationals now and a lot about the finances of this country covered across many of the papers. The Irish Times tells us that Irish households are facing the biggest drop in living standards since the 2008 financial crisis as earnings from work failed to keep pace with soaring inflation. That's according to the Economic and Social Research Institution. The Institute also forecasts a slowdown in house price growth on the back of rising interest rates in the latest summer economic commentary. The ASRI said the Irish economy was continuing to perform strongly and it would grow at a rate of 6.8% in gross domestic product terms this year and by 4.8% next. However, it said the persistent increase in inflation and uncertainty due to the war in Ukraine would eat into the performance of the domestic economy. The ASRI is also suggesting that the government be careful in terms of tax cuts and in terms of wage rises and the impact that could have on inflation. I hadn't thought about this since the last recession. The bottom line is that to protect inflation, the model being pushed forward is that we struggle more. To keep inflation down, your limit tax breaks, that's what the suggestion is and you don't exceed to demands for pay rises. What a world we live in is that's the solution. Is there any other possibility that maybe those who are incredibly wealthy or some of these big, big companies have a role to play in absorbing some of the inflationary pressures? Why is it always on the people with least, the workers, people on social welfare? I don't understand how that all works and if that is the system that works then the system needs to change because our solution to limiting cost increases is to make sure people have less money in their pockets. That's a strange way of dealing with something, isn't it? It seems traditional but should we accept that any longer? Why should we accept that any longer? Why shouldn't, as I say, the major companies, the billionaires, why shouldn't they absorb some of this? They tend to get richer in these times. Why don't they do their fair share of lifting? Why does it always have to come back to the squeezed middle who we're about to talk about now or those with least who maybe are on social welfare? The Irish Independent tells us a section of society labeled the squeezed middle has emerged as coming under severe financial pressure from the cost of living crisis. These are people who are middle income and middle aged with huge outgoings. They're paying high costs for mortgages, childcare and energy and are being forced to make large spending adjustments to cope with surging prices according to the latest consumer sentiment index from KBC Bank. The squeezed middle aged refers to people in their late 30s, 40s and 50s KBC economist Austin Hughes said. This group may be facing the greatest shock from the increased cost of living because they have a lot of fixed outgoings relating to children and mortgages, limited power to change jobs and are in many instances seeing a big worsening in their living standards, he says. So you have a fixed income, one or two of you in the house. This is a familiar story we're all used to. You know what your mortgage is, it's there. Maybe you got a car, you're paying in on that and maybe a couple of one or two young ones heading to college and everything is increasing in cost, the cost of borrowing, the cost of running your car, the cost of heating your house. But you are in a position whereby it's hard for you to make a change to increase your income and you get squeezed, squeezed, squeezed and I think therein lies the phrase. Right. Okay. Now on to the Irish Daily Mail and this story rumbles on. I'm reading it because it is rumbling on. Leo Veradcar said he was standing up to bullies and acting in self-defense during his row in the doll with Sinn Fein's Pierce Doherty last week, which is a remarkable statement in and of itself. During the spat, the Tornester accused Deputy Doherty of abusing and mistreating a member of the Guardi during an arrest in 1999. He added that Mr. Doherty was found guilty but got away with a conviction because of his age at the time. Well, yesterday the Finnegar leader admitted that the interaction probably didn't reflect well on politics, but in my mind he said it was very much self-defense. He added Sinn Fein, whether it's their supporters online, on the streets, or their politicians in the dollar constantly trying to attack us personally and bully us and do us down on the government benches. So he says he was simply firing back. I just have a feeling if the parties in power change after the next election, well those roles also tend to change as well. The Irish Farmers Journal tells us that the Minister for Agriculture has dug deep. 1.5 billion agri-climate rural environmental schemes cited by government as a new reps will open on August 1st. The scheme will deliver maximum annual payments of between 7,300 and 10,500 to 50,000 farmers. There'll be at least two tranches for farmers to apply for the scheme, and contracts will begin on the 1st of January 2023. The scheme's payments for environmental measures will be more result-based than ever, and will run for five years, department officials have said. On to the Irish Daily Star today, and a tragic story inside the pages there, an Irish seven-year-old has died in hospital two days after being pulled from her Majorcan hotel pool and taken to hospital in a critical condition. Sources at the hospital in the Spanish island's capital, Palmer, confirmed she had lost her fight for life yesterday afternoon. A police investigation into Monday's incident at the four-star HYB Eurocalice hotel in the resort of Calais de Miocca is ongoing. A spokesperson for a regional government-run emergency coordination centre said on Tuesday, we took a call around 3.40pm on Monday to say lifeguards had spotted a young girl lying motionless on the bottom of the pool and dived into rescue her. They performed CPR on her after pulling her out of the water because she'd gone into cardiac arrest. Paramedics continued to try to revive her after reaching the scene and got her breathing again in the back of her ambulance. She was taken to San Espaces Hospital on June 5th, six-year-old Cori Ahi from Balfast died after falling into the swimming pool of the hotel where his family was staying in Majorca, but those are two separate tragedies, incredibly, incredibly sad indeed, and thinking on family and friends and school friends of that young girl this morning. The Irish Daily Mirror, the boss of company behind Dancing with the Stars warned yesterday it was unsustainable for the independent production sector that RTE has not had a license fee increase since 2008. Now this guy needs to read the room a little bit because I think the last thing anyone in this country wants to talk about at the moment is an increase to the license fee, but anyway. And Dancing with the Stars, RTE not paying a lot of these people already because they're pretty much, you know, RTE staff that end up going on this show. I'm sure the staff sitting in there going, well, why haven't I been on the late, late show yet? Why haven't been on Dancing with the Stars yet? I've been sitting in this canteen for four years and no one's come up to me, but anyway. Shinne Willbass, Larry Bass said, unless government makes a decision on the future of public service broadcasting funding, he fears RTE will not be able to afford shows to compete with international streamers anymore. Well, they need to change how they do things. That's what's happening in Britain. They're changing how they do things. It's happening all over the world. You can't sit still, literally sit still with a crappy online digital player and then expect us to fund you to compete with other companies that are doing it better. I don't think that's a fair deal. I think he'd be far better off asking for RTE to cut the wages of its senior staff and use that money to fund these programs. That would make an awful lot more sense, I think. And finally in the Irish Son, this is an incredibly sad story. That is the dad of murdered Anna Kregel will be buried today as one of his daughter's killers tries to overturn his conviction. Patrick Kregel died peacefully last weekend in Leek Slip. His passing comes more than four years after he and his wife Geraldine's only daughter was brutally murdered by two boys. A funeral service for the French native will take place this afternoon at Newlands Cross Crematorium. A death notice described Mr. Kregel as beloved husband of Geraldine and dear father of the late Anastasia. The couple who adopted Anna from Siberia when she was just two were devastated when she vanished on May 14th, 2008. And as I said, one of those found responsible for her death are currently, literally currently this week, setting out an appeal to that conviction. All right, we'll be back after the break. The final Saturday stretch at Oakville Park with Faux is this Saturday from 11 until late. This week there's live music from Levengro after 6. 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And because of my age they are not taking on any classic insurance for people over 75 years of age. And they told you that Samuel? Pardon? They told you that? Yes. I'm not going to name any companies over there as you can understand, you know. But one of the companies who I had classic insurance worth on a Riley Elf a few years ago and my name and all was still in the system. Yes. So they had all my details and the chapter that Delft Wilson he said he would have to get back to me, which he did within 48 hours and had been refused. But they didn't give any reason. And just to be clear, because you've said this quite clearly already, you already are on the road fully insured, fully licensed as you say. This is just a little treat for you from your family for your 80th birthday. Exactly, yes. I've been fully insured since I was 18 years of age. Yeah. You could calculate that now and I was it in the third of May. Wow. Now, I mean, theoretically, if it was someone else's car that was taxed and insured, you could drive it onto your own insurance. I don't understand the logic of not giving you your own policy. That's the difficulty I'm faced with. I love attending all the vintage shows. Yes. I know Michael Cramsey is running one at the Clan Rees. On Sunday, yeah. On Sunday. I worked in Latter-Kinney in the early 1960s. My first car was an Austin Seven money bought in my college garage. Lovely. Beautiful car as well. I can even remember the registration of it. Go on. It was a ZP9700. Right, okay. Love this stuff. Do you feel just, I mean, is this something that you're seeing as a bit of an annoying Samuel or is this bothering you? Do you feel discriminated against because it's only because of your age? Yeah. I get you. No, we'll check it out. I did not know that in this day and age that we could discriminate against someone based on their age. Now, of course, when you get to a certain age, you have to get a letter from your GP, whatever. They can look at your no claims bonus, your driving history, all of that's clear and clean. So the only reason they are refusing you this insurance is because of your age. Now, I would have thought that that wasn't allowed, but clearly they feel it is. That appears to be the situation, Greg. And as I say, I'm disappointed, you know, because I love going out to these shows and etc. This Rover 213. Now, you would be too young now to remember the television series, Keeping Up Appearances. No, I've seen it. I've seen it. I was actually going to ask you, where did they find a rust free 1987 Rover 213? It already contacted the VRT office. Yes. To pay out the VRT. Yes. But then when I discovered that I couldn't get insurance, I had to cancel that. But if I can get insurance, I'll go through the legal system of paying VRT, etc. and taxing it. It'll require an MCT as well. Yeah. But you were clever not to go through all of that until such time as you were able to get a policy on it. Why did they get you a Rover 213? Don't get me wrong. Lovely car. Okay. I don't think it's the sexiest older car, if that makes sense. Well, is it because of memories or? The years. Yes. Me too have suppressed in 2015. So mobility is not as good as it used to be, you know. And money, monies were always my favorite. I've had too many to remember about, you know. Yes. But they're not the easiest to get out. No, they're very low, aren't they? Yeah. At my age in life, you know. Yeah. And the Rover 213 is a Rolls-Royce. It's a saloon, isn't it? It's just a Ford saloon, yes. It has the Honda engine and all on it, you know, 1.3. Beautiful. What color, if you don't mind me asking Samuel? Pardon? What color is it? It's black. Oh, lovely. It's the top of the range. It was owned by a lady in Birmingham, and her father was a supervisor, I think, in Rover. And it was maintained to the highest standard, you know. Yeah, most have been indeed. But that series keeping up appearances is exactly the same model as poor Richard Henpecht. And his wife was called Yes, Hyacinth Bouquet or Bucket, wasn't it? Whichever, whichever you prefer. That's a classic show, it's still an A8. That show was actually aged really well, a bit like your Rover. Yeah, so it's really, it's really unfortunate that you'll find yourself in this position because it's so exciting. As you say, there's classic car events all over the place, and this car would stand out because it's a little bit different. It's not everyone's classic, but as you say, you know, it's like a Rolls Royce of its time, and it's an immaculate condition. Yes, if you can help me out, I would appreciate it very, very much. Yes. Now, we're gonna, I want to approach this on the fact of I want someone to explain to me why, because you're a certain age that you can't get a policy. That's what bothers me. Obviously, other people are texting in suggesting to you that, you know, you can get the car, put in one of your family's name, and your own insurance will cover you to drive it. But, you know, why should you have to, why should you have to, you know, bend the situation like that there? You're perfectly fit to hold your own insurance and own your own car. Why can't you do it for the Rover 213? 100%. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I get you. Right, we're gonna make calls. We're gonna go on to the Insurance Federation too, because I want someone to explain to me this situation, and I want to challenge them on that. And hopefully, happy driving. So, you're still gonna go to the event on Sunday, Samuel? Well, I could actually go, because my son, Trevor, has an open insurance policy, because he works in the car, bodywork, the business, you know, and has been doing it for 40 odd years. Yes, okay. And he could drive me, you know, but we'll see how it goes, sure. Did you work all your life around letter Kenny, Samuel? I first went to work in letter Kenny in the early 1960s, and I was working for a gentleman called Jack Spears, Spears Hardware. Right. Now that shop is Brian McCormick's sports shop, that's where that shop was, you know. And I have a lot of friends in letter Kenny, ran the National Marathon the year that Danny McDade won it, and he won it in two hours and 18 minutes, and I done it in three hours and seven minutes. Right, that's a fantastic time, isn't it? Yeah, it was over 40 at that time, Greg, you know. Fantastic. And yeah. I went to school with the four partisan people, you know, and Ronnie and Billy and Christine and Dorothy. And I know Victor for sure there, and Michael Cramsey. Yes, I have some, I would say you have some crack when you meet up, anyway. We're a convoy man as well. Right. And I heard your interview with Esther there earlier in the week too. Right, okay. Very good. And it's funny that the daughter that she met up with lives in Holland. I have a son living in Holland and a study called Helmand. Wow, okay. That's a quite coincidence, isn't it? Like in that both Donegal connections, both Holland connections with your children. So once you go off there today, you Google ASML and you'll see that they're the biggest company in the world in the semiconductor business. Brilliant. And I'll let you into a little secret, Samuel. I have been known to Google while I'm on here as well. So my curiosity is going to get the better of me. Did any of the insurance company, before I let you go, Samuel, did any of the insurance company suggest that you need to be a member of a vintage car club before? Oh, I'm a member of the Donegal money. It's not that bad. Many owners told me. Good stuff. All right. Did you ever turn the wheels the wrong way around on a mini? I remember that when I was really quite young. You know, you couldn't afford new rims, but guys used to invert or rotate the rims, so you know that they stuck out further on the car. No, no, no. It's like a pure man. We always had the good money. I was going to say it was a pure man's modification back in the day, you know. Yeah. All right. All right. Take care of yourself, Samuel. Leave that with us. We'll see if we can come up with anything. Right. It's been lovely chatting to you and happy belated birthday. Okay. Take care. Bye bye. That's Samuel there. 08 660 25,000. Another call to say is you can put the classic car in one of your family's name and your own insurance will cover you to drive. And I'm thinking this gentleman can drive any car under his insurance company quite possibly. But as you heard from Samuel there and it came across loud and clear, he wants to, he wants to be independent if possible. And why not? And why not? 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Dan McKabe, Monkree, Hot House Flowers, Paddy Casey, The Fertileys, Hudson Taylor, Leah Hart and many more. Fun Kranah Music Festivals July 2nd and 3rd. Tickets on sale at funkranamusicfestival.com. Okay, you're welcome back to the program. So as you know, we had a discussion yesterday about the defective block scandal. Today, there is presentations to the housing committee of the rocked us on that issue. It's been called compressed pre-legislative scrutiny, but that being said, it's not really that but I understand why it's been described as such. Just to be clear what the frames of reference are or the terms of reference are, the housing committee is chaired by Cahir Lark, it's Cahir Lark obviously, Deputy Short Stephen Matthews and he said, this is how he's framing today's discussions, given the urgency of this bill and given the bill will be published in advance of committee consideration of the general scheme, the committee has agreed that it is not possible to undertake pre-legislative scrutiny. So they themselves ahead of today are saying this is not pre-legislative scrutiny. And also in terms of what changes might be made, there's no guarantee that any will be made. The committee says in its press release that it only retains the right to communicate its view of the bill to the minister following these meetings. Okay, so even after they've spoken for the six hours today, over two hours, three sessions of two hours, the housing committee simply retains the right to communicate its view of the bill to the minister following these meetings. And it's very important to point out as well that that housing committee is dominated by government parties. Okay, so whatever the government decide, it is, you know, they have the power on that committee, they have more members than all the other parties and independents combined. So we'll see what comes from it. Right, okay. We want to find out what the situation is at Letter Kenney University Hospital now, and we are joined on the program by its general manager, Sean Murphy. Good morning, Sean. Good morning, Greg. How are you doing? I'm doing good, right. So as we're seeing across the world, certainly Europe at the moment, another surge in COVID-19 cases, what impact is that having on your hospital? Well, I suppose essentially there's two elements to the impact. One is the number of patients that are coming in with COVID and the need to take measures to ensure that we don't spread COVID within the hospital. So our numbers have gone up steadily from being back in single digits a number of weeks ago to 39 patients today. I'm glad to say we don't have any patients with COVID in ICU, but I mean, that's a big jump, as you can imagine. And do we have an idea of the breakdown between, you know, those that have tested positive for COVID and those that have come in being treated? I know it's an old question, Sean, but it's quite important, I think, for our listeners to get a sense of how many are being treated because they're ill with COVID? How many are being treated but have COVID? I don't have that breakdown at hand at the moment. And look, I was going to say, there are clearly a number that have tested positive for COVID as opposed to have come in because of COVID as their main condition, but I'd rather not start guessing in terms of the report. No, but that gives us a sense of the spread in the community and its impact on the hospital as well. That's the motivation for asking that. Yeah, no, no, I understand the reason, but I don't want you to start guessing the numbers. But look, that's something we can come back to you on. Yeah, look, I think it's useful. Yeah, there are two aspects. One is the numbers and that puts pressures on our beds in terms of segregating patients. We have two wards now where we have restricted admissions and again, that's going to impact in terms of visiting and access to the hospital. So that's not a situation we want. We want to be coming out of this. The second issue and element is the impact on staff. So as I often say to you, Greg, our staff are part of the community. What happens in the community is equally true for our staff. So we've seen an increase in the number of staff in the last 10 days, I would say, that are off of COVID. There's always been a portion that for medical reasons have been cocooning. But now we've seen an increase again in the number of staff that are symptomatic and waiting results, but more significantly staff that are actually testing positive. And that again impacts in terms of our troop and our flow of patients through the hospital. So this morning we've got four patients waiting to be admitted from the emergency department into the wards. But we started out this morning with 30 outpatients in total, actually still undergoing treatment and assessment in the emergency department. That's a significant number to start the day before other patients start presenting. But at this point, I'll show them with all due respect. Of course, you are in acute hospital, okay? And one of your principal functions, if not its main function, is to deal with sick people and people get sick and they turn up at hospital. Why can't you deal with that? We can deal with it. What we're struggling with is the increase in the numbers that have come that have started to turn up by about a fifth as over two thousand more patients in the first five months of this year. And that puts pressure on in terms of the space, the capacity. And in the last 24 hours, we've had a number of staff within the department including key staff that have actually been off sick themselves. So it's a triple issue of space, the number of staff that are working through the delivery treatment and the increase in numbers. All right. I was in the hospital recently, right? Whatever people do out and about, that's their own business. I was in the hospital recently and saw a couple of people in there, not staff as you should point out, not wearing masks, okay? What's the logic in that? I mean, would it not be prudent if there's a lot of COVID spreading in the community that people in the hospital should have to wear masks? Yes. We ask everybody in the hospital because there's a healthcare setting to wear a mask and reduce the spread of COVID. Is that enforced? Sorry? Is that enforced? Enforced. We don't have people going around stopping everybody, but we do enforce it in terms of the staff manager's clinical staff infection. We'll stop people if there are not. Now, I was talking to a gentleman recently who had to go to the hospital with an infection. Now, I know you can't comment on individual cases and I'm not expecting you to either, but they had a temperature because of an infection that they had. Now, because they had a high temperature, they were admitted to a COVID ward. Now, you're in the business of trying to limit the spread of COVID. Does that happen? And if that does happen, does that make sense to you? Okay. So, the issue is I can't comment on... Understood. But the scenario? So, I don't know, and here I'm in danger of speculation, but what I would say is, was it the COVID ward or was it the 20% to the emergency department? We have two streams. Understood. Okay. We have the COVID and potential COVID. Okay. In the lack of me having a follow-up, I'll withdraw that question because as I say, it's probably not helpful. He may have been admitted to COVID and potential COVID because a high temperature would be one of the criteria for even though he may have an infection, you can't reload it. Possibly he might also have COVID. Right. Okay. I get you. Now, so just to recap then finally, not finally, we might have one more question for you if that's okay. The impact on services, potentially, because we don't know when this will peak or how quickly it'll pass through or what might be the case. And also, in terms of access for visitors, just to recap that. Okay. So again, at this stage, we're doing nothing other than asking people to limit visit into the areas that are affected by COVID. We will be keeping our visits in policy under review. Quite frankly, Greg, we want to make the hospital as accessible as possible to family members. We recognize the benefits of that. It's getting that balance between having safe levels of access and not introducing potential spread of COVID from the community. In terms of the impact on services, again, our focus is on maintaining services as fully as possible. We have been doing coaching work in terms of the elective work and doscopy work as up massively our reasons to have decreased by over half in the last six months. We've seen large increases in the number of outpatients that were seen. We want to maintain that throughput. Some services may be impacted if a number of staff in that area end up going off sick. Short notice if they become COVID-positive or are symptomatic, we can't have staff come in that have got symptoms. They've got a negative test result. You quite reasonably pushed me to say, but you're there to treat sick patients. We're starting this morning in a busy place. The day is going to get busier. We will be, as always, triaging patients and focusing our efforts on the clinical priority. The patient's most in need of urgent treatment. It is an emergency department. We focus on the emergencies. People with more minor conditions, as always, we say, can you go to your GP? Are there other options opening? Can you go to your pharmacist? If you've got a minor condition, if you have a minor issue, you will wait longer because we've got the priorities. Also, we have to talk about these things, but it's not with a view to scaring on. The bottom line is, if anyone is sick enough that they feel that they need to go to the hospital, regardless of what we've just been speaking about, they need to go to the hospital. They're not in any necessarily greater danger in going to the hospital. If they are sicker than other people that are already waiting there, they will be seen. They don't necessarily go to the back of the queue because of the triage that you talk of. Anyone who's sick, do not avoid the hospital, Sean. I'm not putting words in your mouth. I don't want one person to say to their wife, if they need to go to the hospital, do you know what? I'm not going to go in there because such and such was said on the radio. If you need to go to hospital, get to the hospital and you'll be seen. No, absolutely. That's a really key message. You and I have both said this many times before, that's absolutely true. We want to make sure we provide care to those patients who need urgent care. The message is simply for those that have got more minor illnesses, please look at other options that might be more appropriate and bear witness. If you experienced long waiting times, we do apologize for it, but we are doing our best to see everybody as quickly as possible. I asked you this question six months ago and I just wonder how has your answer changed? We were inundated over the course of a week with people unable to get in contact with their GP in certain areas. It depends where you are. It depends on the surgery. Some people have fantastic access. Others, they simply just cannot get an appointment. We were told by many, many people, Sean, that because of their concerns, they were turning up at the ED because they'd know at least they'd be seen. I'll ask you one more time. Is access to a GP or issues with that adding to pressures on the emergency department of Latter-Canary University Hospital? I can't remember what I told you six months ago. It's very difficult for me to comment on that. I hear mixed messages. I've got to say, I've certainly had increased feedback about people saying that they can get the GPs, but again, it's all anecdotal. It's all what people say, and it's always dangerous to draw conclusions in terms of what people have said. But yes, I mean, I've heard stories where people saying that they couldn't get the GPR, they couldn't get face-to-face consultation, but I don't know if that still remains true. But you're not ruling it out as a factor, either. Sorry? You're not ruling it out as a factor to the overcrowding issues. I'd say we've seen an increase of almost a fifth in terms of the number of patients presenting to the emergency department. We know a lot of people are very sick. We've seen a very significant increase this year, and the level of QT, the level of illness, the seriousness of illness, and people presenting. I wouldn't be ruling out any factors. And that's not been smart. I think like everything else, it's very seldom one issue. There's always a combination of issues, but I've certainly had some feedback that indicates to me that access to GP appointments has improved. Okay, Sean, thank you very much indeed for that, Sean Murphy, General Manager of Letterkenny University Hospital. The 90L News Show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union, offering low-rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. Sheridan Security, now introducing Zero Wire Smart Alarm Systems. Zero Wire, zero mess, and a real peace of mind. With a simple press of a button, your alarm can be set or on set or download the free app and control it from your phone. Call us today on 074-912-6025 and get your alarm from €299. Stay local, stay safe, and protect what you value most with Sheridan Security Systems. Green Shoes in Letterkenny and Falkara have shoes for every occasion. 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When your insurance comes up for renewal, contact O'Malley Scanlon Insurance at their Ballybuffet office on 9131020, or they're done low office on 95 Treble 206. O'Malley Scanlon is regulated by the Central Bank. All right, you're very welcome back to the program. So catching up on some of your comments from yesterday. Actually, before I do, this is time sensitive. Our 14-year-old dog has been lost in the Letterkenny area with age. She's going deaf, wearing a collar saying Mary. It found, give us a call here. So if you found a dog, an older dog, not very responsive, if you speak to it, it's got a collar on saying Mary, and you can imagine how keen its owners are, or her owners are to get her home. A caller says, I'm so disappointed the government is going to fail the people of Donegal once again. The minister yesterday admitted this scheme doesn't cover everything, and he says he'll support it. Shame on him and his colleagues. I can't afford this. As a public service worker, I can't afford to borrow the money required to rebuild adequately. I can't even sell and move away. They've broken the housing market for over 7,000 people in Donegal alone. Thank you, Rory. Why if homeowners replace the foundations themselves? Are they to be excluded to the scheme from the scheme? Well, that has been changed, we're told, so that's not the case any longer. Greg, the minister yesterday totally bluffing. He doesn't understand what he's talking about. He's failing the public. I have no money and can't afford this. Greg, Charlie McConaughey told the party line, and if you think he'll vote against the government, you're being fooled, and we are being fooled. I know exactly what the score is in that situation, but my role, as I see my role to some extent on issues, is to get comments on the record. Now, it doesn't have to be that we agree with them, that we like them, or if you do agree with them and do like them, it's about getting stuff on the record because once something has been said, there's a record of it there, and then that can be referenced for the future. Not in any mischievous or catchy outweights, just so we know exactly where we are. It's democracy. It's accountability. Hi, Greg. Why doesn't Charlie McConaughey just say the government are holding off on paying until the next election and make themselves look good? That's why he won't answer questions. All right. Thanks for that. Right. Councillor Nicholas Crossin joins us on the programme. Good morning, Nicholas. Thanks for taking the call. Good morning, Greg. Oh, yeah. I'm all right. Right. Some concerns were being expressed about services in Boncrana, particularly as it relates to the daycare services. As far as I'm aware, what's the situation? What's going on? Well, recently, Greg, more or less since the last six months or so, there has been a cutback in the services in the Boncrana and the daycare area in Boncrana. And I have been trying to find out why this is happening. And I've been told that there's a shortage of staff. Now, the daycare centre was held in Boncrana Hospital, the community hospital in Boncrana. That has since moved to the Sleeves-Snap Centre because of work that carried out in Cairndona, community hospital and the Boncrana nursing unit. So, that was okay. People moved to the Sleeves-Snap Centre and don't freeze. It was about five miles out of Boncrana. Great facility. First-class facility actually for daycare services. But since then, there has been a cutback on services from five days a week. But people were able to go maybe three or four days a week out of that, down to one day a week. Okay. Now, this would have been a very important outlet for people even if it was just to meet friends and socialise and have something to eat. This is really impacting people in quite meaningful way. I can't stress enough the importance of it. People that we all went through Covid, but these people who are the most vulnerable in our society are one of the most vulnerable groups in our society that maybe some of them didn't understand why they would be isolated during Covid. But now that Covid has lifted, and please, but it has lifted, but they still can't get back in. And I'm being told for anybody with Alzheimer's or dementia, the most important thing to have is continuity, routine and a purpose to do something. And of course, too, it's not the case with everyone, but there are families who have their own issues to deal with and what have you, but have become carers as well. It was an opportunity for them to have some free time to do the other things that they needed to do. So in terms of, for some, the respite element of this, that's also lost. Always, most important. And it's not only just because the respite break. It is the families that are looking after their parents or elderly relatives in their homes that is keeping the pressure off. Nursing homes that these people are not being put into, and the families want to keep them in their own environment. And it's a two-way street on this particular one. Most families do not want to put their parents or elderly relatives into nursing homes. So they try their best as long as possible to keep them at home in the environment that they're used to, into a routine that they could use to every single day. But because of the cutback in services and because of their work commitments, maybe family commitments, or whatever the case may be, they're finding that more and more difficult. Right. Okay. I mean, it's a catch-all excuse or reason, staff shortages, but what's the story behind that? What are they doing to try and address that? How many staff is needed? At what point, what staffing level do they get to whereby services are returned? Or like in a lot of ways is COVID being used as a smoke screen to change the services that we provide and how we do it? Well, first of all, when we got a letter back in May, it was COVID related that there was a staff shortage. Now, I got a letter back in the last few days that COVID doesn't seem to be a problem. There seems to be a problem within the shown that they can't fill these places in the show. Now, recently, the HFC has got 25 nurses that have been recently recruited internationally. And these nurses want them to make their way into community hospitals and care services wherever they might be needed. But what I'm told is because these people have maybe early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's, or maybe just elderly people who are living in their house that want to get out for a couple or every day, that these people don't actually need medical services as such that they don't have open wounds. They don't have any physically, but mentally they need to care if you have one or two nurses and a couple of carers that could look after them. It sounds to me that you feel that if there was a will, there is a way. Well, certainly, you put it very well that if there's a will, there's a way. And this problem is lying on somebody's desk. And I don't know who it is, but I would ask those people within the HFC to try and get or a full complement of staff back to the Sleeve-Schnapp Centre. We were told that that service will come back to Bonkrana. You see, the beauty of it, the Bonkrana Community Hospital, it was next door to the Doctor Surgery, the Medical Centre. So that was an emergency. I just worry, Nicholas, and I'm kind of ashamed of us as a people in that over 75s of some of the longest waits that are EDs, over 12 hours, not unusual, cuts to services like this, more difficult for our older population to heat their homes and to pay their way. I mean, this is a terrible indictment on this country. And also for people, really, if we accept it, that we treat our older population like this. And yet everyone's worried about how long the delays in the airport in Dublin would be. And that's fine. It's all relative. Don't get me wrong. But I'll tell you, it's a disgrace what we're doing to the people on whose shoulders we stand in this country. Greg, you hit the nail on the head on that one because this is a problem that's going to affect everybody. This has come on down the line for everybody. So this is not, we're not fighting for the elderly people today. We're fighting for ourselves and in years to come because we're all heading that direction if we're looking enough to get that far. So you're 100% right. These are the people who helped to build our country and our country and to be left sitting on the corner watching TV six days a week. It's not fair on them. It's not fair in their families. So I'm asking and the reason it's not fair in the families as well because the families as you say want to care for these people. But if they chose not to look at the look at the extra pressure that would put on the state, they should be rewarded for that. Not discouraged. Unfortunately, we're coming up to 10. Councillor Nicholas Cross and thank you for your time this morning. I appreciate it. All right, take care. Unfortunately, we're highlighting issue there, but there's not necessarily any good news. All right, we'll be back here with more in the 90 noon show after the news and obituary notices. 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Speaking on today's 9 till noon show, Sean Murphy, Manager of Lettra County University Hospital, says they will continue to monitor the situation. At this stage, we're doing nothing other than asking people to limit visiting to the areas that are affected by COVID. We will, but we will be keeping our vision policy under review. Quite frankly, Greg, we want to make the hospital as accessible as possible to family members. We recognize the benefits of that. It's getting that balance between having safe levels of access and not introducing potential spread of COVID from the community. Today is a huge day for Micah homeowners and their strive for 100% redress. Members of the Micah Action Group will appear before a joint housing committee today in a shortened form of pre-legislative scrutiny on the defective concrete blocks bill. Housing Minister Dara Bryant said yesterday that he believes the scheme has already been greatly improved before any amendments have been made. 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That comes in from Leanne, who will understand the importance of such services outlined as outlined. This call says GPs don't answer the phone, but if you email, you get a reply. Some of the older generation and people with disabilities are unable to use email and have to rely on other people to do it for them. So this is not fair on the GPs' behalf. And again, in fairness, by the way, it varies from region to region. And I don't always say that a lot, but there are some GPs and we'll get contact from their patients that are operating very differently to that. So as I say, that's why I repeat myself and I'm sorry, but it's just in the interests of fairness. Right, this caller says, Greg, I was referred to the ED twice recently for something that did not need it. The doctors need to reopen and start treating patients rather than passing the problem on. But again, from the general manager of the hospital, he says he can't say if it's a factor or not a factor, but he doesn't think it's a principal factor. A caller believes the mica scheme is a joke. My mother and father in law are still paying a mortgage at $64.65. They will never get a loan to finish the property. Why is the government not going after the banks? They've received all interests charged. But again, profit before people disgraceful. Well, the governor of the central bank, I put that question to him in terms of, you know, should the banks be doing more because we are going to be restoring their assets to full value and questioned whether or not these properties were and the value of them were reflected on the bank's books. And he quite clearly said, and I was a bit surprised because I didn't believe it were the case, but he knows he says that the problem with around the country is reflected on the bank's books. So there you go. Please can someone tell me why the guard of editing system is the way it is? I'm 40 plus and went back to study as an SNA. I wasn't a great student when I was at school, but I worked really hard at this and got way and above what I thought I'd get. I've roughly 40 CVs out all over the country or the county, sorry. But for every school I drop a CV in, I have to apply to be guard of vetted. Is there no joined up thinking that once you're vetted, you are a number and a wee barcode fob that can be scanned. As of now, I've 43 vetting applications in the system. Well, listen, I would say a compromise there would be that if you were provisionally vetted, you know, could you not sort of get a provisional vetting from the guardie? And then when you move into whatever line of work you are, once you've been approved for the job, once you've been hired, then go through a vetting process to have to go through vetting so many times to apply, especially when we need as many people like our listener as we can working in these fields. It doesn't make any sense. Something has to be done. Is there a cost associated with it? Either is it free? But it's also a terrible waste of resources. Whoever is processing all of this, surely even if we can't do one vetting that covers everything for security reasons, at least have some sort of a pre vetting process whereby someone can apply for a job saying, yeah, I've been pre vetted, and we'll go through the vetting process if you give me the job. Would that not make sense? So maybe I'm being naive. Wouldn't be the first time I've been accused of such. I call it says I was recently in the emergency department. The place was covered in coffee cups and newspapers on the floor and doctors and staff not wearing masks, just the receptionist. Another Greg I can't understand letter Kenny Hospital visiting and someone being accompanied at appointments. I attend both Goreway and Dublin Hospital last week. Not an issue at all. You just wear a mask yet. I'm not able to accompany my partner when our appointments in letter Kenny for the last two years. Okay, I was another Kenny Hospital three weeks. No one asked. No one did ask people to put on masks. And let's say this is not to the wider conversation about mask wearing in schools or in public and shops. I'm not talking about that. But this is a healthcare setting. And when the hospital manager says, look, our business is to make sure people don't catch COVID. I would have thought that anyone on campus within the building should be wearing one. But anyway, Greg, I was in hospital a few times during COVID-19. The staff members running around without a mask, they had folders in their hands and I was asked to wear a mask. I'd like you to put that to Sean Murphy. I have asked that question before and we got an answer to that. But it might come to me the answer just off the top of my head. I can't come up with it. Hi, Greg, I agree. Yet your interview with Charlie McCunn-Logue. We have to take everything that men say is with a pinch of salt according to this system. The government position remark is all smoke and mirrors, as with everything else they do, supposedly for the good of ordinary people. We have to vote them out at the next election. A caller says, I attended Mr. Vajas Breastcleaning yesterday in Electric Kenny Hospital, had an examination of my gram and ultrasound, and results in less than two hours. Highly efficient, well done to all the staff. Last one before we take the bingo numbers. Greg purchased a takeaway on Saturday night for a treat for myself and my friend. My friend's food was a chicken chaiseune dish, chicken, I don't know, caisson? Chicken, I don't know what it is, I don't know, it was a chicken dish. On tasting her food tasted a seafood flavour, and being allergic to intolerant to the same became instantly worried and subsequently sick. I rang the takeaway, asked why this happened, to be told repeatedly that prawn was added for flavour. I reiterated I ordered a chicken dish and emphasised the sickness and distress this caused eventually to be offered a feeble apology. I feel I need to report this negligence to the Food Safety Authority or the HSC, as do not ever want anyone to experience. The latter, please advise. PS, it's only today that my friend is feeling any better. I mean, if you feel you want to complain, do. Like, I think you should be made clear, and if you are on these premises, there normally is a menu upon the screen, and it will say, not on the screen, but on the wall, and it normally say that certain dishes, even if it's a chicken dish or a beef dish, may contend derivatives. I mean, particularly with Chinese cooking, obviously, there's a lot of fish sauce used in various dishes as well. So probably would avoid it if I was allergic to fish anyway, unless I scrutinised the dishes. But that being said, you know, I don't know what you do in that regard. What do our listeners think? I'll wait 60, 60, 25,000. What's absent texts? I'll wait 60, 60, 25,000. Good morning to Annie, Michael, Mary, Anne, Yvonne, DJ, Beth, Kathleen, Felamy, and Rosemary, and Grania, Angela, Audrey, all amongst those watching the programme on our website or on social media. Very welcome along. You can hop on there as well too, and see many of our guests as they join us via video link. 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Now for any people, you know, traffic wardens, they're not great fans of them, bane of their lives in some cases, but you believe traffic wardens do you should be empowered further? I do actually, yeah. Tell me why? Because of the lack of guards. I actually think these, well a lot of people as you'd notice yourself when you're driving would be parked in the yellow boxes when the traffic, when they shouldn't be there. Yeah. And that, you know, the traffic wardens are walking around, very good traffic wardens who do good jobs. They're walking around and observing this all the time and I'm sure are frustrated that they can't do anything, but I think they should be allowed to tick and tick people who are stuck in the yellow boxes. And these are the yellow boxes that you're not allowed to sit on at Junctions, for example, you're on about those grid boxes that like outside, they like to get out of the whole town of Natural County and all those of course. Absolutely. Right. Okay. And also you believe they should have a role to play in people using their phone while driving? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, especially they're flying up and down the town and on their mobile as if they're allowed to do so, but they're not allowed to do so. And yet there's nothing to prevent them except for the odd prosecution. Yeah. Is there enough traffic wardens I wanted to make any meaningful difference in this situation? Maybe would more sort of on-street guard of patrols be more useful? Well, I think there's a better candidate alone. I think there's three traffic wardens that I'm familiar with and it would give them more employment and bring in more revenue. Do you get frustrated at what you see out in the roads, John? You do get frustrated. You're sitting at the lights at Gallard's Hotel, as for example, and people are sitting in yellow boxes and you're observing the rules. Not that I observe the rules all the time. There is times with that junction though, because the lights don't necessarily reflect what's going on down the town and the sequence can be quite short if you're heading down towards the town. Of course, you can't be heading up the town from the main street. I just wonder if there is a bit of driver behavior issue there, but also is that junction a bit of a problem? Because I've found myself thinking the traffic is moving. You're one of the last cars before the lights change and you try to make your way onto the main street. Next thing you find yourself stuck with the back end of the car in the yellow boxes. Yeah, you're stuck for some reason. People are trying to park up on the street, but that's understandable. That's the only way they can do it, but they certainly shouldn't be sitting in the yellow boxes, in my opinion. OK, John, we'll see what others think. Thank you very much indeed. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Let's get to more of your comments here. Read the massive disruption caused by the rail strike in Britain. Aren't we so fortunate that we will never experience such a problem in Donegal? Exactly. That is not going to be a problem. Hi, Greg. Yes, a family member who works as a nurse in the COVID wards at LUH at the most difficult time in our lives only received her 1,000 euro this week and two-thirds of her colleagues haven't received that at all. I'm 78-year-old. 78 years old, says this listener. My and my husband's medical cards are out of date. We sent away forms to get them renewed. We're both on pensions and have been for years. We were told they want more evidence. Going now for four months, it is showing that my husband is still working. He hasn't worked in years. They want us to sort it online. I am so... I'm on so much medication. I'm afraid that if we need to renew my prescriptions, I won't be able to pay for it. Anyway, out there to fast-track out any advice for those listeners. It's a problem. It's a problem. The money is very tight at the moment without having to worry then where you're going to have to get new money. Going to have to get new money then to get new money to pay for your medical expenses. Raymond joins us on the program now. Hi, Raymond. Good morning, Greg. How's the form? I'm all right. What's the story today? No, I was reading in The Irish Independent on the internet yesterday about... How do you put it? 4,000 senior civil servants making over 150,000 a year a lot of them getting apparently 9% or 20,000 euro annual raises. I'm just thinking to myself, my goodness, out where I live here, a lot of small farmers, we'd love to earn 20,000 euros a year. There's a lot of other people. Yoni Gall here don't even make that. If you're in charge of... If I remember correctly, maybe a year ago, you had mentioned, and maybe I'm wrong, that the head of the HSC, who last year made somewhere about $430,000 in his total package, declined to be on your show. I'm just sort of wondering if it seems to be... Great. Let me play devil's advocate here, of course, because I think we're all struggling now. The overwhelming majority of us now are having to make changes to our lives, not just on non-essentials, but also on essentials. We're all reviewing how we're living our lives. That being said, 90% of these civil servants who are to get a pay rise and please, I'm playing devil's advocate here, are like hospital consultants. They work in very senior roles in our hospitals on the wards. This is not a pay rise as such. I believe this is actually pay restoration, money that was cut from them during the last resection. Of course, we could be very motivated to say, this is completely unfair. Let's get rid of this government. But if you're a hospital consultant and we're struggling already to retain them, and 90% of those getting the pay rise are hospital consultants, is there not some justification for meeting this pay rise? Greg, I totally agree with you 100% on that. If you're a GP, you're a hospital consultant, most definitely, you should get it. Most definitely. They provide an extremely valuable service to everybody here. I also firmly believe nurses should be adequately compensated, and I don't think they are. But if you're the people overlooking the hospital consultants, and you're overlooking our local letter to the hospital, which I've been told is, basically, I'm not trying to be offensive to anybody, but it's basically a waiting room for Galway and Dublin. And I think you had a slight disservice, but I certainly understand where you're coming from. And in some cases, you're right, Raymond. And the thing I don't get about this, and we've heard it too with sort of RTE presenters, the argument being made, that this is what you have to pay to get the best, that if you don't pay them this money in the higher ranks of the civil service, if you don't pay this money, they'll go into the private sector. I find that hard to believe. I think we've got a lot of very clever intelligent people here that would be more than happy to do some of this work for even if it was 150 grand, that would save us 300 grand per post in some cases. But we presume that they're about to run out the door and go and work in the media's case for the BBC. They're not getting that paid that over there either. Or they're going to be, you know, airlifted out to a hospital in Kansas to work. I don't, I would like to test that. Let's test that. You know, let's see who we can get for 150K. Greg, I totally agree with you. Like getting back, I think it's to the head of the HSC, if you were over in Britain in a similar job, you'd be getting half as much as you're getting paid here. And you'd have 10, 25 times as many, you know, citizens to take care of, you know, over in the British healthcare system. I mean, you'd have a serious, responsibility here. You really don't have responsibility. It's everybody covers, everybody's back in here, you know, and it seems with this permanent government, you know, you scratch my back, I'll protect your back. And it seems, you know, you have this T-shock and Tannista, and they're always deferring to the civil service like they can never do anything wrong. And, you know, like you look at letter Kenny, and you know, it's terrible situation. There is a severe, severe lack of accountability in this country in certain areas that you, I mean, I, and you've said it yourself, because I was gonna say the same things that were agreeing to some extent. At the very least, you should be accountable if things aren't working well, you should be demoted or sacked or whatever it might be. If you're caught up in a scandal, you should be suspended without pay until such time as that's resolved, providing this, you know, there's enough evidence to justify that. But no, it's just, and this is why people are disinterested. This is why we as a population just accept it for now. I have a feeling, though, the rising cost of living is gonna get people motivated, they're gonna get out in the streets. I think that's the common the next year. Greg, like, you know, you can't forecast the future. I mean, it looks like there is potentially a very ugly recession coming very quickly that could last three to five years. It could be much worse than the Celtic Tiger crash. And a lot of people are gonna get hurt very, very badly. But you know, there's sort of an irony here. On one hand, you know, you're the, you know, in the Doyle or whatever at the top, no problem given these people, you know, 9% or 20,000. But if you're, you know, a junior civil servant, you know, we don't want to give you more than 2.5%. And, you know, there's questions of justice here and like, who's paying for all of this? And where's the money to come from? You know, in the era of sort of 0% interest rates and sometimes negative interest rates, you know, you could be seeing 10% interest rates in another year's time. And the system is set up as such that to suppress inflation, you take money out of people's pockets. Now, this is regular people like like us, you know, not the richest or the biggest companies, they in a recession or inflationary times, they make more money. So the way governments around the world, it's not exclusive to hear the way they suppress or try and limit inflation is to not give pay rises and to not make drastic cuts and to not put money back in up more money back in our pockets. Why is no one asking, right? Why is no one asking, what were governments doing, knowing that there would be a bounce back in the economy post COVID? Why were they doing nothing to limit inflation back then? You know, why, why has it gone up to seven, eight, nine, 10, 11% and now we're saying, all right, we can't pay people any more money, we can't give people too much money, or they'll actually spend it, heavens forbid. You know, and we just go, we accept that, we don't go, well, how did you get us into this position? What did you do or not do that allowed us to get to this point? Greg, I'm not wise enough and the question and answer is way above my pay grade, if you will. You need a 9% rise, Raymond. Yeah, maybe I do. I'll take a 1% gladly. Greg, I don't, you know, like there's a question, fundamental question, democracy, does democracy work in here? And, you know, you would have a much better handle on that. I'm just a, I'm literally, I'm just the exact same as you, Raymond. I'm just a normal person just happened to sit in here every day. I'm affected by all the things and have the same level of knowledge. And in most cases, less knowledge than everyone else, some kind of just more of a chairperson than anything else. But, Raymond, thanks for the only thing is, you know, the problem I have with this is you can't look to another country and say, well, look, we should be doing it like them. I mean, you can talk about people put up a picture of the price of petrol in Malta, right? But that doesn't tell the full story of what life is like in Malta. You know, or, but look what's happening in England, France, Germany, the United States, Canada, you know, China, do you know what I'm on about? This is global. How much influence do governments have on this stuff? Who's pulling the strings? Greg, I, you know, that's above my ability to answer. It's a question that like, it's above mine as well, Raymond. We're in the same boat. Maybe we need to start getting answers to those questions. I don't know. No, I mean, we definitely do. But I mean, it seems in Dublin, the greatest fear for somebody in a doiler is to be the odd man out. You can't stand and ask a simple question and get a, you know, an accurate, truthful answer anytime. It's always like, you know, like this thing with the 9% or 20,000 euros, we can't do anything other than legally. Well, like, you know, because that's legally how you have to do it. Who determined it was legally? And it's all the same people scratching each other's backs in here. You know, I take care of you. You take care of me situation. But, you know, as long as somebody else is paying the bill, as long as Greg Hughes is paying it, don't worry about it. And I know what you're saying to be true to do with local issues. And, and, you know, maybe hopefully the truth comes out in the wash, and it does go right all the way to the top. Raymond, nice to speak to you again. Thank you very much. Indeed. That's Raymond, a regular contributor to the program. Nice to hear his views. I'll wait 60, 25,000. I want to hear yours too. Greg, at this stage of COVID, should we not know? Greg, at this stage of COVID, should we wear a mask ourselves and not have to be told to do so? Well, that's the WHO. You can read in the papers and you can listen to whomever says the WHO very clearly. They do not believe the future of dealing with these types of situations is mandates, okay? So, the WHO will not in the future be mandating or suggesting a mask mandate. It's up to people to make their own decisions. Should they be encouraged to do so? I think there's some ads saying so. Read the takeaway. Allegians are required to be displayed on menus by law. Yes, but what happens if you ring up? You see what they are, but what if you ring up? What is the law there? If you, and lots of people are doing it now, if you ring up and just place your order and say, can I have this, can I have that? Is it the responsibility at that point on the person ringing the takeaway to say, by the way, is there prawns in the chicken or is there anything in the chicken other than chicken? Or is it the responsibility of the person answering the phone that probably already got shaken something in the fire at the same time? Are we expecting them to say any allergies in the house? I don't know, let us know. We as a family use the day services in Bon Crana. This caller says this service was available in the area five days and now it's down to three. My parent was using it four days and it was wonderful giving both me and them a break. We're down to one day a week now. Every morning, the first thing I am asked is, have I anywhere to go today? And when I say no, they say how boring. I do not want to put my parent into care, but this is pushing me to have no option because I cannot cope on my own. 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That's why at Supervalu, we have great offers like Supervalu, Fresh Irish Fillet Steak, Safe 33%, Selected Goodies like Cabri, Nestlé and Robinson's Annie 3 for 4 Euro, and get new weekly money off vouchers on the Real Awards app. For low prices that compete with anyone, it's got to be Supervalu. Alright Jim, good morning to you. Good morning and how are you? I'm doing good. Are you going to bring a bit of positivity in my life, Jim? I don't know. Question's your accent. Alright, okay. You have good words for our healthcare system. I think really we'll start with that, will we? Kenny Hospital. Now, we have been patients and let a Kenny Hospital on and off for this past 50 years. Yes. It would be four years to be correct. And we were always treated as VIPs. Couldn't have been better treated than anyway and to listen to people complain and I wish they were on some other contrary and taken to some of the hospitals to see the way you'd be treated. Have you ever sat for 12 hours in the emergency department at Letter Kenny? I was taken to Letter Kenny Hospital roughly about three weeks ago, near and off on conches and that's the department I was taken into and I was taken ambulance, which were two gentlemen apparently that took me on as well. And I was seen to immediately. Yes. And I think any patient that is seriously ill, they're seen to. Oh, 100%. No, we very rarely get complaints in that regard, Jim. We're on the same page there. Any time I listened to it and the radio was complained and complained. Every person that I talked to and letter Kenny Hospital that worked on it could not have been nicer or help for it in any way. Okay. Now, I was taken to a hospital in America a good number of years ago on conches and there were two of my sisters with me and the first question they were asked had the money or had an insurance and the truth was about it. I had neither and they wouldn't even look at me. Wow. My two sisters had to pay for the ambulance that took me where I had the accident to the hospital. They had to pay that ambulance and they wouldn't let the ambulance take me to my sister's house. Do you remember how long ago was that, Jim? That was in 1965. 65? Yeah. Right. Okay. So there's no point talking about how much it costs then. Well, I don't know how much it costs. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, right. Because it was my sister paid for it at the end of the day because I was just new in America at the time. So what are you saying is, Jim, and you're well capable of saying this yourself, but just to see if I'm reading it correctly. I mean, every health system has its flaws, but before we're overly critical, we should be looking at what other people have to endure even in well-developed countries like the United States of America. Yeah, that's for sure. I don't know what people want. Yeah. Leonard Kenny Hospital did it. I think it's brilliant to have it there. We have had children born there. My wife was always treated the same as what I was treated. Couldn't have been better from the doctors, nurses, all staff, even the cleaners coming into the wire. They couldn't have been nicer to me than what they were and they want papers up or that they want anything in or what do you want to eat. That was just brilliant. Okay. Jim, you sound like you might have a book in you, do you? Between all your travelling and your different experiences in different places and raising eight children. There's a book in there somewhere, a manuscript, is there? Well, I wouldn't have the brain suit read a book. I'll put it that way, but I am sure less than the people complaining about our hospital. No, I get that. And I understand that, Jim. And it's good for balance. And I've invited the likes of yourself to come on and put that across. And that's why I'm just letting you speak because it's good to get the positive stuff out there to Jim. And I appreciate it. You're feeling okay now, I hope? Oh, thank God. I'm back near enough to square one again. Brilliant. Well done. Okay. Hopefully we got some good weather for you to enjoy soon. Out of minutes. All right, Jim, we'll see what we can do. Thank you very much. All right, take care. That's Jim there, with very positive things to say about his experience with the Irish healthcare system. And of course, he's got experiences in other countries to contrast that with. Right, okay, shall I take a piece of music now? Or leave it to the third hour. Caroline, no one's telling me I was going to take a piece of music. No? No, okay, we have calls to get to. Greg, can you ask the public when is the last time anyone walked on the Inch Wildfowl Walk? I wasn't last night. I was shocked at how overgrown and out of condition it's become. What a beautiful walk going to Wraken Rune. What is the point in creating these fantastic spaces and then not caring for them? I'm not familiar with that at all at all, unfortunately. So I can't offer any commentary, but someone say they've recently walked the Inch Wildfowl Walk and weren't happy with its condition. I call this as a few more housing centres like Ardra in County Trinity Court in Newtown Cullingham and Warren View Manor in Moff, as well as Habin Taken-Lifford, among some of them great initiatives run by voluntary committees. Okay, that's off the back of a conversation we were having there recently with a guest who was talking about, you know, local housing groups being established to address the needs of the housing. Oh, okay, we're going to take a break after that. We're going to be joined by Sinn Féin's spokesperson on housing, Owen O'Bryn. Be very interested to see what he is to say about the defective blocks enhanced scheme. The 9 till noon show with letter Kenny Credit Union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost. Letter Kenny Credit Union 9102127. 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Okay, I'm not hearing you there, I wonder are you still muted you are indeed? Apologies, rookie mistake. I should know after two years of this. I know but still it happens every day so it's no issue. Okay let's get into before we talk about the process that's happening today and where we are to go just to find out Shunfane's position on a lot of this stuff. Would Shunfane include foundations in the new redress scheme from the off and would the cap be increased to cover that work? Yes and yes and we would also insist that the rates would be revised by the SCI in advance of the opening of any new scheme. It simply makes no sense to automatically exclude foundations although I have some information that we've just got from the minister on the floor of the door and respect to that but if foundations have deleterious material they have to be included that means the rates have to go up and that means the cap has to go up. So would you include this from the get-go or would you do as the government is? It's the NSAI I think they're getting to look at the foundations and they're going to make the determination we're told early next year or do you think we should be going to international experts to find out the situation? What would your process be there? The first thing is it's important to be clear what the government is actually proposing so the final version of the bill which will be published later on today the minister says will be silent on the issue of foundations so that is a change from the general scheme that is in the public domain that excluded foundations. The NSAI are expected to report in the first quarter of next year and if as we suspect led by the science they include foundations the government will then have to do regulations and that'll take a couple of months and therefore foundations if they are to be included won't get included in the scheme to midway through next year but one of the other crucial things is the minister isn't allowed to revise the calculations of the footage or square meterage rate until a year after the enactment of the legislation which is at the latter end of next year and as you know and your listeners will know the current SEI rates per square meter or foot exclude foundation so what does that mean on the basis of what we're hearing from the minister today it would be at the very earliest at the end of next year before somebody who has deleterious materials in the foundations whether it's Pyrite or Pyrite or others or a problem beneath the foundations and the aggregate it would be the end of next year before they could even apply success and that's that's if things move as quickly as the government might want I mean there's nothing to say that timeframe would be met that's best case scenario it is best case scenario and as we know with this entire process I mean first of all the legislation that we will be discussing in committee today that was meant to be published in the end of March then in April then the first week in June second week in June a third week in June so those timelines are the timelines we've been given by the department and absolutely experience tells us okay so if you talked about following the science and we heard similar comments from Minister Charlie McConnell yesterday so in following the science okay we have certainly we have defective blocks on an exterior of a house we know they're going to be defective on the interior then we check the foundations the foundations are fine we can't have a scheme can we whereby we fix the outer leaf of a home even if the option is there to return to the scheme that is not following the science because we would be repairing a house knowing it has mica and knowing that over time it is likely to start deteriorating internally and speaking to people in the know changing an outer leaf is doable inner leaf much more problematic of course so if we are to follow the science your party then presumably would say that in most cases we're looking at full demolition yeah we have to follow the science i'm not an engineer i'm not an expert in deleterious materials but if a qualified engineer goes in and surveys a property and if their recommendation is is that not only the outer leaf but the inner leaf and possibly the foundations need to be addressed then that's what needs to happen and that's not only better for the homeowner by the way that is better for the taxpayer because if we only do partial remediation now on a property that is eventually going to need full remediation it's highly likely that a later stage right with that in mind it is both prices will go up so yeah the job right now yeah what you're saying makes absolute sense right and what the the homeowners everyone affected it makes absolute sense okay but the government is resisting that you must have given yourself time to reflect on as to why they would set the scheme up as they are doing so then what do you believe why do you think they're setting up like this that is contrary to common sense i think at the centre of the long delay in getting this revised scheme done and the many weaknesses that it still has is that there isn't agreement at the heart of government over what should actually be done here i don't believe there's agreement between the minister for housing and his officials i don't believe that there is a consensus between the minister for housing and his party colleagues in public expenditure reform and finance and i do think there is an attempt in the short term and in a very short sighted way to reduce the liability to the state the difficulty is governments have been doing that since this problem but even that doesn't make sense because this is a lot of things that don't make sense about this government them well yeah but just not i'm not going to comment about the government not make sense but this is not going to be like seven thousand houses fixed in 2023 naturally this is going to be a scheme that runs for years and years and years how many houses we get done in 2023 2024 2025 i suspect it's going to be very very few so i don't understand again then the motivation for the government trying to limit liability early on that and you know that explanation that you gave me that also doesn't make sense to me well it's not that it isn't accurate it just it's hard to believe yeah but if we look at if we look at for example what government did with the pirate scheme in Leinster it was exactly the same they delayed the introduction of the scheme they underfunded it and eventually it ended up costing more the same is going to happen with far safety defects and other structural defects that's going to come out of another working group in the department on Celtic Tiger era building defects there does seem to be over a decade since we first discovered these defects an approach of government which is short-term limited immediate liability but the long-term costs particularly to the homeowners and to the tenants but ultimately to the taxpayers much greater i know that's hard to understand and it shouldn't be that way but that is my best estimate as to why we're in the position we're in would this scheme under a Sinn Féin government be a true 100 percent redress scheme because by uh uh leo faradkar's own comments on this broken minister charlie michole conalogue's problem on an undetermined amount of people will have to put money in now you know the dogs in the streets know everyone is going to have to come up with tens you know at least 10 20 000 euro they don't have the ability to do so simply can't do it so under your under your stewardship would this be a 100 percent redress scheme yes the the core principle is very simple if you buy something you take it home and it's effective what do you do you bring it back the next day and you get a refund or replacement that applies for everything else it should apply for the most expensive purchase in your life one of the differences between ourselves and the government is not only that we would deliver genuine 100 percent redress but also in addition to very very substantial taxpayer commitments and we posed an amount of 200 million that government should have spent this year in this we also believe that industry is going to have to make a contribution as well we'll come to that so you're saying let me make the point though it is not it is not acceptable that the taxpayer pays the full bill when quarries block manufacturers construction companies insurance companies and banks walk away scott free so they have to come to the table as well yeah but you know a lot of those uh those companies have changed ownership no longer exist simply don't have the insurance to cover this so we go back to a levy on construction which is a levy on every person uh you know they're paying twice so your solution to this is a levy on first-time buyers who are already paying through this through their general taxation having to pay for this again so effectively the people that you talk of punishing the block suppliers uh those with oversight so on and so forth get off scott free while the people pay twice that's your solution well it depends on how the levy is designed that there is no doubt whether it's the taxpayer footing the bill through exchequer revenue or a voluntary or mandatory levy on industry a lot of those costs filter back to the ordinary working person that is the great scandal about all of this but the idea that any section of industry will make no contribution to this is unacceptable it's unacceptable from point of view natural justice but also just from a practical view of of costing it phil hogan promised a levy on industry back when the pirate scheme has been introduced in lester uh but following a threat of legal action from the non-life insurance industry he backed down pasco done a hew only yesterday in a parliamentary question to me said they are looking at introducing a levy on the construction sector to raise about 80 million euros annually this is going to take a decade or more to clean up not just the defective block and foundations but all of the other defects and therefore we have to access every source of funds but what i will say to you is this if i owned a thousand square foot home in dunigala mail today i am going to have to contribute 30 40 50 60 000 euros to bring it back to the standard it should have a lot of that money that is not right okay scheme shouldn't allow for that and a lot of that money would be spent on a new driveway for example because the machinery coming in is probably going to destroy a driveway footpaths may have to be replaced uh a lot of people build a garage at the same time they're building the house are you saying all of those costs would be covered under a shinfane government absolutely any defective building any defective portion of the building that needs to be replaced has to be replaced i mean i made the point today on another radio show if i buy a car and i take it home and it's defective and if i bring it back to the garage the next day and if they say no problem we'll replace the car but you're not getting the seats you're not getting the steering wheel it will give you wheels but no tires you'd look at them as if they were mad yeah but if the car was in a garage yeah but if the car was in a garage and the garage around it was also damaged by some means or mechanism by the car i'm talking about fixing the garage as well in other words there's going to be a lot of expense i.e. you know driveways footpaths garages things like that you're saying if if this scheme will be enhanced under your government to cover all of those costs what i am saying is natural justice dictates a like for like replacement so how much the product is the product is defective and you did not cause the defect whatever the product then the people responsible should pay and in this instance that's government and industry okay um i mean have you between yourself and the likes of deputy pierce starcy and others uh you know the government have a bill on this 2.7 billion i think they've told the party members privately it could edge closer to four the way that you would administer this scheme and given the fact that a lot of this would have to be front loaded you can talk about how we can claw back from certain sectors but a lot of this would have to be front loaded what bill are you putting on this so first of all the government has no idea how much this costs that the figures that were thrown around initially in the department review that was published last year was a guesstimate on the back of an envelope a much better way to approach this is to be honest with people and say we don't know the long term cost but how much are you going to invest every year and we would start off with 200 million in the first year and a commitment to maintain and we're necessary increase that and again we're not just talking about defective block of foundations we've another set of defects we're going to have to address up to 90 000 apartments duplexes and houses albeit with a lower cost of remediation per unit but a larger number of units so there's a lot of cleaning up to do from the finna fall finna gale mess during the county tiger and whatever it costs to clean that up we have to ensure the money is there and where would that money come from because of course there's huge demands and you have committed to fix everything and that sounds facetious but pretty much it seems the case the local hospital is going to be fixed the road is going to be fixed we're going to get new bridges everything is going to be done if shin fain or empower you know yourself it's getting more expensive to borrow money we know any claw back is going to take a while where does shin fain find the money for this problem because you have to sell it across 26 32 counties not just the four or five or six counties that are affected how do you sell this to the taxpayer sure and and we're not promising to fix anything in fact if you look at both the alternative budget and our manifesto we're very clear and what we prioritize and what has to get done first it's also important to stress that if you don't do it now it will cost more in the long run government is going to have a surplus this year because of the increase in tax take because of of the rising cost of living and corporation tax the cost of borrowing is still very very low and government's borrowing capacity is still very very significant so certainly over the next number of years and you can only predict two or three years into the future in terms of government expenditure there is a comfortable space for government with existing tax revenues as well as with continued low cost borrowing to be able to fund for example our priority programs and you're right they are about health they are about housing they are about remediation but don't let anybody fool you the government is telling everybody that we're looking to fix everything the government cannot do everything but it can say here are the priorities here's how we would fund it and now let's get on and do it and that's exactly what there's started yeah or in McLaughlin, Rose Conway-Waltz himself are saying on this matter two short questions before 11 then how quickly if empowered you know does Sinn Fein make the any necessary change changes what is the process because this will be voted on in the doll of course and and past like how you know you know how quickly could these changes that you well first of all we want this scheme to be changed and and I had a constructive engagement with Dara O'Brien yesterday on the floor of the doll and he said yesterday and he's repeated it today he is willing to consider constructive amendments from opposition over the course of the next three weeks so my priority first and that of Paul Reagan, Pierce and Rose is to engage with the Minister of the Department to get improvements to the scheme before this legislation is passed we accept expect on the 15th but he's not going to allow Sinn Fein fingerprints all over his bill having spent so long working with his own department officials on this that that would be a political disaster for him no in fact on a number of occasions we've successfully passed legislation in this doll of the last which the Minister has then absorbed and worked into his own legislation and we've seen significant improvements in various areas including tenants rights and student rights etc there's also very very significant campaign pressure from the Micah Action Group from the Clare Pirate Action Group from the Mayo Pirate Action Group and others over the next number of days obviously you know they're in with us at one o'clock today they'll be outlining what they want to see change in this bill we have other expert scientists and they're like so we've a job we'll work to do over the next three weeks let's get this legislation right let's ensure this time around the people in the affected counties aren't left with the medical scheme. And if it's gotten right would you vote for it? Oh absolutely and if it's an improvement on the existing scheme even if we have problems we'll vote for it but if the scheme has inadequacies we will continue to argue and campaign both for the duration of this government and it will go in government in the future for improvements to ensure that people get what they rightly deserved they didn't cause the defects they shouldn't have to pay those responsible should and that's the bottom line. All right listen thanks so much for coming on the programme we appreciate it okay that was Sinn Fein Deputy Owen O'Brien he's Sinn Fein spokesperson on housing local government and heritage it's there as I said earlier on it's on the record now uh if it comes to pass that they are in power it's the likes of that interview will be the basis for a lot of future questions okay we'll see right it's uh still 11 o'clock so I'm on time it's time for a news update and we say good morning now to Emma Ryan. Good morning Emma. Thanks Greg good morning. The family of a seven-year-old girl who died following an incident at a swimming pool in Spinn are believed to be from Donegal. Emergency services were caught to a hotel in Mallorca on Monday. The girl was treated for cardiovascular arrest, a use in CPR and transferred to a nearby hospital where she passed away yesterday afternoon. Today is a huge day for Mica homeowners and their strive for 100 redress members of the Mica action group will appear before a joint housing committee today in a shortened form of pre legislative scrutiny on the defective concrete blocks bill. Latter-Kinney University Hospital is under increase in pressure due to COVID-19. 39 infectious cases are currently being dealt with at the hospital. Staff shortages due to an increase in staff testing positive for COVID-19 is also having a knock-on effect. Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson says he fell off his chair laughing when the Tanisha accused his party of bullying. The over-accurate alleged yesterday Sinn Féin are constantly attacking the government both personally and in their practice. It comes as the Tanisha engaged in a heated row with pure story in the dial last week. Donegal fire service has received a new state of the art water tanker and incident command unit. Chief fire officer Joseph McTaggart says both will enhance the ability of Donegal County Fire Service to deliver their operational fire service to the community it serves. And finally, plan on permission has been refused for 60 dwellings in Strunorder. Permission was applied for by Harrison Ventures Limited for the development at Admiral in Strunorder in May 2021. That's all for now. We'll be back with news again at 12 noon. Start playing NCBI radio bingo today. Three chances a day, five days a week to win daily prizes of 400 euro plus. Not to mention a weekly jackpot of 5000 euro upwards. Books available at your local retailer for just five euro each. It couldn't be simpler. 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Are you a beginner or thinking of taking up golf? Our bays allow you to practice the good and not so good shots for as little as three euro. Practice makes perfect at Letter Kenny driving range open seven days. Find us on Facebook. All right, you're very welcome back to the program. Right, to call us as I think the council could build the same independent living complex like Derry for older people. Yeah, indeed. You guessed, Connell Shufflin is a community entrepreneur that's something which is seemingly lacking in younger generations. This is off the back of our chat with Conner. Connolly Beggypardon who was talking about his involvement going back to the early noughties in developing housing in our drawer. A lot of people reacting very positively to what he had to say. Greg, if the price of coal doesn't settle down, hospitals will suffer come Christmas time with older people suffering illness because they are cold. Yeah, not impossible. Congratulations to Greg and the two ladies on their success of their show about the mother and baby homes. Okay, thank you for that. A lot of reaction to that interview as well, which I'm only getting to now. A caller says I've been on to other deaf communities around Ireland to check with the local radio station to find if they have captions. Hopefully they'll get one the same as yours. Thanks again. I don't think anyone else in the country nationally or locally broadcasts their show on the internet every day like we do, to be honest with you. So I don't think they can. All right, now a caller says hello guys. Could you ask is there any bosses from Donegal going to Harry Styles and Dublin tomorrow night? Is this from yesterday or the day before? I'd better check when he's playing again. Anyway, right, so we're talking about watching the program. You can watch our next guest go on to our website highlandradio.com or YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland or our Facebook pages because I'm delighted to welcome on to the program right now. Megan Rowan, Ambassador for Walk in My Shoes. Megan, good morning to you. Can you hear Megan? You're muted there. Can you hear me okay? Right, I'll tell you I'll come back to Megan in a moment. I'm not sure the internet's up to scratch there, but anyway, we'll come back to Megan. Stay with me because I have one more break to take and we'll sort that out during that break. I was at a festival recently surprised at the level of hard drugs use. I knew the likes of marijuana would have a strong presence, but there was an alarming amount of ketamine. We also had a great band on that are playing in party in the park tomorrow afternoon in letter Kenny. Good reaction to that as well. Lovely young band. Sounds great. Yeah, I thought they were particularly impressive. 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Visit ONPOS.com forward slash money manager. ONPOS is authorized by the Minister for Finance to provide payment services and is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland in the provision of such services. Okay, you're very welcome back to the program. Hello, guys. I asked that one, that question again. I beg your pardon. The Boston Letter County to Dublin route has been reduced 87 seats to 57 seats, so it's 30 seats shorter. Let me see if Megan can hear me now. Megan, are you there? Hello, Megan. No, okay, we'll get Megan on the telephone. Obviously, there's some connection issues there. Would you in Phoenix sustain the cutoff period for people that unknowingly purchased a defective property after the 31st of January 2020? I didn't get to that question in my apologies, but it'll come back again. That topic. Greg, read the person who ordered the takeaway at the weekend. Did they advise the restaurants that one of them had an allergy to seafood? Just because it was a chicken dish, there's no guarantee it wouldn't be cooked with or near seafood. People are very quick to accuse restaurants of negligence, but if the customer didn't ask the question or advise that they were allergic, how is the chef supposed to know? Personal responsibility, I think. Yep, I kind of was in that space myself, if I'm honest with you. We had Jim on earlier. He was full of praise for the Irish healthcare system, but this caller, this commenter on Facebook says, obviously, that man who was talking about Letter County University Hospital never had a bad experience at the hospital, and lots of people don't, you see? And this is a platform for them as well. And it's nice for staff to hear of people like Jim being able to speak positively about their experience, because whilst not all people have a very good experience, not all people have a very bad experience either, and we try and platform both as much as we can. Right, Megan, Rowan, we're going back, Rowan, sorry, we're going back to phone lines, Megan. You're dragging me back to the noughties. Good morning, Megan. Good morning. Good to have you with us. You're an ambassador for Walk In My Shoes, and you are from Moville Community School. Talk to me about Walk In My Shoes, the initiative, Megan. Well, St. Patrick Mental Health Services have over the past 10 years operated an educational program called Walk In My Shoes for TY students, and it's basically just an insight into how a mental health care service operates and the experiences of those facing mental health difficulties. Do you feel that we're getting better at talking about mental health, but then what happens next? Do you feel that, Megan, whilst we talk about people saying it's good to talk, and it is, and to, you know, to not be ashamed if they're suffering with their mental health the same way they wouldn't be ashamed if they were suffering with their physical health, do you feel amongst your peer group that the help is there if you needed? Yeah, we discussed like the stigma associated with the mental health diagnosis and how to change people's attitude towards it. Yeah, okay. So talk to us about what's happening at the moment. There was a week-long program, was there recently or is that coming up, where a lot of transition year students were engaged with? You had a placement, did you, Megan? Yeah, we had a placement program. Yeah, talk to me about that, please. Yeah, so we basically just got to talk to different people who worked in the hospital, and they just kind of told us a bit about what they do, and you know, about what was on in the hospital, and it was very interesting. And you were able to meet the mental health experts, as you say, see firsthand how our mental health services operate. Yeah, yeah, we got to just look at how the service operates and, you know. And the pathway people might have to recovery as well, which is very important part of the course, that's what the mental health care is all about. Yeah. What did you learn from it, Megan? I learned that anyone can have mental health problems, regardless of their social background, and it helps you to promote more positive mental health. And also, of course, we do know there are staff shortages in this area. Part of this scheme, I'd imagine, is to see if the likes of yourself or others might sort of follow a career path into the mental health services. Do you think, did you see anything that might encourage you to do that, Megan, or any of your school friends or anyone else that you're with, if they thought, right, maybe this could be a career for me? Yeah, like, I feel like now I have the right skills to help someone who's suffering with mental health difficulties and to let them know that there are services out there for them. Yeah, but could you see yourself actually going into it as a career, or is it just full information to use through your teens and into adulthood? I feel like it would be a good career for me. I am very interested in it. Good stuff. All right. Listen, it's good. Over a thousand students have completed the TY program, so you people can get more information at walkinmyshoes.ie. You found it a very enriching experience. Would you generally recommend transition year, Megan, did you enjoy the year? Yeah, I definitely enjoyed the year. It was a good experience, and you mature more throughout the year. Yeah, did you get away anywhere? Yeah, we got to go on those trips throughout the year. Brilliant. Okay, lovely stuff. Okay, well, get your head down now. Fifth and sixth is coming down the tracks. All right, Megan. Listen, well done. You're very good. Thanks, Megan. That's Megan there, who is an ambassador for walk in my shoes. More information on what they do at walkinmyshoes.ie. Right, WhatsApp syntax to 086025000, or give us a call in 0749125000. This caller says, I was an SNA a few years ago. I got my guard of vetting once at the outset and copied it to enclose in each of the CVs I put into schools and preschools. Okay, that is what I was talking about. I can't believe I didn't think about it. So can you get a copy of it so the person that you're applying for can be satisfied that you pass guard of vetting, and you do that once yourself, copy it, put it into the CVs, and then that box tick, do all schools and preschools I want to accept that? Let us know if that's the norm, because that sounds like it makes an awful lot of sense. Can I get myself vetted, for example? How did you go about doing that? Because the reason I'm looking for more information on that is I think that's going to be very useful to quite a lot of people. Well said, to your earlier caller, re-yellow boxes. Nobody who travels through Balabuffet seems to know how to use a yellow box. Yes, indeed. I know all about that. I agree with you. Greg, what do you think of this scenario? I got my car renewal notice from my company. The renewal amount was 356 Euro fully comp. I'll bite their hands off. I thought this was quite good. So I contacted them to ask if this quote included 10% reduction for having two policies with the company. Imagine my surprise when the lady quoted me 364 Euro, an actual increase of 80 Euro. I've never heard of a renewal notice quote being increased. I then went on to the company's website, entered the same details, and got a quote for 349 Euro, 90% fully comprehensive. I then paid this amount. Multi-insurance is a minefield. Oh, did you price around elsewhere? I know you probably thought, well, we've got two cars with this company, and if we change, the other companies don't necessarily do multi-car deals. But 345 is not bad, is it? As I say, I would bite your hand off for that. Whoever that Samuel is, it was fantastic to listen to him. Hope he gets on good. That's our 80-year-old friend who is a classic car fan. His family gave him a beautiful gift of a car, but he phoned up insurance companies. No one would quote him. No one would quote him. And one cited his age. I don't think that's acceptable. But we are on to the Insurance Federation to try and get answers. My mom, 89, my uncle, 92, still driving their cars. Hope Samuel gets insurance. Try FBD. Now, Samuel is driving his own car, by the way, fully insured, full license, clean medical, all of that. Samuel received a classic car as a birthday gift to mark his eight decades. So he's driving, and that's not an issue, but he wanted to take out classic car insurance on his older car, his classic car. And that's where the stumbling block is. Sad about Samuel's vintage car, but lovely listening to him. Sounds like a young at heart, 80-year-old with a brilliant memory. Bless him. Hope all works out here, here. No coverage of the Donegal International Rally on the various sports sections of RTE News last Sunday evening. Why should we increase our license fee for RTE when our county's bypassed resports coverage? Well, listen, stick to your local papers, your local websites, your local radio station, because, you know, that's where it's at. That's where you're gonna get the coverage. But I take your point. Pay more for your license fee. That's what you should do. Hello, guys. I keep asking this same question. Is Harry Styles on Tomorrow Night as well? Does anyone know, or is this an old message? He was, I know it was last night. He went for a dip in the sea, and then he performed last night. I would say it was, he was due to play wasn't he, 2019? So there's a lot of people waiting two, three years to see him. I'm not sure if he's playing again, or if that's an old message. They're looking for a boss down to Harry Styles. If he's playing again tomorrow night, and if there is a boss, please let me know. I'm gonna put that one in the red bin now, because I've made a haims of it four times. Right. No one is disputing the fact that once you get into Letricenny University Hospital, you get a five-star treatment and care. It's the waiting to get in is the problem, of course, but also cancelled appointments and stuff also is an issue. But I take your point. I was in Letricenny Day Unit on Monday. Nurses were so good to me. Big thank you, indeed. And we had a recent experience of the hospital, and it was fantastic. Staff were great. No great delays. Everything went on time out quicker than one might expect. So I, that's my most recent experience as well. Totally agree with Jim. I was in the ED for hours and was treated so well. Seen transferred to a bed within eight hours, spent a few days there as a patient when you're sick, you don't mind the weight. Anyway, complainers really need to think about what they're doing there in the first place. All right, thanks for that. Right, I am having a mare today. You know, I've got a head cold, a sore throat, and the computer's playing up on me, and I keep reading the same messages over and over again. And now the advert won't play. I'll sort that out in a second. There's no reason that the seats in the emergency department need to be so uncomfortable. Surely soft, wipeable plastics would suffice. People sit there for 12 plus hours in pain. It doesn't help. And you know, I agree with you. And this come to my mind just a long time ago now, since I was in an airport, but it came to my mind recently in an airport, and the seats were so comfortable. And there were so many of them compared to the experience at a hospital more recently or sometime before that. Right, okay, our next guest is Emer Kelly Donnelly, psychotherapist with Embrace Farms. Right, good morning to you. And thank you for joining us, Emer. I hope you can hear me okay. Hi, Greg, how are you? Good morning. Talk to me about Embrace Farm. So Embrace Farm is Ireland's only support network for those bereaved by who are who have survived a farm accident. And it was founded in 2014 by a couple called Brian and Norma Rohan, and they're from Shanahan County, Leash. And unfortunately, Brian lost his own father to an accident on the farm. And when they looked for help in the aftermath, they realised there was no service providing, no charity or service in the country providing this. So they set it up in 2014 following their learnings from this. And I know some of the answers, but interesting to hear you explain it, Emer. Why would we need something dedicated to the loss of life on a farm or within the farming community that is not served or is different for the same type of supports in the general population? Well, basically, I suppose the difference, if you could even say that, there is the practical end of a business. So regardless of the fatality or the serious injury or suicide on the farm, there's a business that must continue to run. And that's very hard. If it was a normal nine to five job or a shift job or if you were an employee somewhere, you could take some time off and you wouldn't have to worry about the bigger operational running of a business. But unfortunately, with a farm, the show must go on regardless of the trauma and the grief. Yeah. And also to people want to be there for someone who's suffered a bereavement, but they want to know how to be there correctly, to be there constructively. And then what kind of possibly happens is they don't engage at all because it's too awkward and they don't know what to say. That's the opposite of what we want. So Farm also helps, does it, in how we can support people who have been bereaved? Yes. And again, yeah. So Embrace, I suppose they Embrace Farm, it's a kind of a one call. You just have to make one call and we will figure out exactly what somebody needs. Sometimes the people don't know, but general conversation and a trusting relationship will identify what's needed. And we then have the support required to be financial, practical, emotional, legal. And we also have ad advisors there that that will will assist in any way possible. Does this also extend to the wider farming community? You know, not necessarily the immediate family of someone who's passed, but you know, it can be, we all live in very tight knit communities, it can be even tighter so within the farming community. And maybe someone's affected by this operating a farm on their own now and feel particularly isolated. Can you help in those instances? We can, I suppose, if somebody wants to give us a call, we do our very best to signpost and support and get somebody linked in with somebody who might be able to help in the area. Between us, we'll definitely support any way we can. Okay, and the remembrance, the annual remembrance is the ninth, I believe it's coming up this Sunday. Is the call still out there for families to submit names of loved ones who've lost their lives on the farm or to do with farming? Yeah, and that's exactly right, Greg. We have the remembrance ceremony this sat this Sunday in Abilix in County Leash and in the church of the most Holy Rosary. And it will be live streamed and it will also be played on RT1 the following week if people can't make it in person. But if there are people out listening today that have an impact, they would like to add to our list to be called out at the remembrance ceremony embrace.com. And there's also a number there as well. Yes, and of course, you know, we've talked about maybe if it's the breadwinner that passes in a farming instant, but all too often, and we don't want anyone to lose the lives, all too often, it can be a young person, a child. And I imagine that's even more difficult to come to term. Do you have a lot of your interactions with families that have gone through that devastating situation? There are families, LinkedIn, that have unfortunately lost children on the farm. I suppose like the show must go on. They have to continue to work in that area. They have to, you know, so I suppose there's just an additional layer to a farm accident. If it was a road accident, not taken from a road accident, but you could go a different road or you could avoid the area for a time with a farm, unfortunately, it's constant. It has to keep rolling over. It's intertwined with probably every single aspect of your life. It's devastating. Do you use part of the remembrance to sort of maybe enforce the message to do all we can to avoid preventable instances on farms that lead to death and serious injury too, because you know, we talk about death and of course that is the ultimate. But there's so many people that, you know, can't work or can't work the farm, sorry, because of serious injury or even it's life changing injuries as well. So we must remember them as well, of course. Sure. And they are remembered at the ceremony. And I guess to answer your question, they remember in ceremony, I suppose, is primarily to remember and support. And then it's supposed to meet people and to be there as a support on the day, put faces to the names, etc. But there are a lot of survivors that we have that have survived serious farm accident left with, you know, an element of such maybe a disability or, you know, they've lost a limb and they have poured themselves into the health and safety and the basic farm safety on a farm. And they're out advocating and informing and linked up with different organizations to to raise awareness of farm safety. And as you say, obviously, this was launched by husband and wife, Brian and Norma Rowan in 2014. They themselves obviously lived through the gaps that were there. And from their experience, and I'm sure it must be very rewarding for them in them dealing with their loss, we're having this conversation today. Absolutely. And today's 285 farm families have been linked in with Embrace Farm, like it's incredible. And unfortunately, that number is rising. Yeah, okay. We have to do all we can to avoid as much as possible, people needing these services in the first place. Listen, it's been just talk to me again, sorry about how people can access the Remembrance Service on Sunday, because I didn't put on a brochure for that. Embrace.com is where they'll find it and on all our social media platforms. So Instagram, it's embracefarm.com, and Facebook is the same. And then we also have a phone number for people who may be listening that wants to get more information or, you know, that I had a gentleman call me during the week, he's 20 years after an accident had never heard of the service, he just wanted a link in have a chat. So if there's people out there not sure, or they know of somebody or just give us a call, we'll take any call, you know, whether it's, whether it's exactly what somebody's looking for or not, we'll hear times or anything. And people should make the call too, because, you know, people will hear it, people will know Embrace Farms there, and they'll go, no, I don't need that, I can do this on my own. I think it's best to make that call and just see how you get on. Do you know harm? Absolutely. Let's love this stuff. Yeah, go ahead. Sorry, Embracefarm.com. And there's a number here as well. It's 086-838-1427. Okay. Thank you very much indeed. Take care of yourself. Bye-bye. That was our guest, Emer there, from Embrace Farm, Emer Kelly Donnelly. All right, that's for you. Maybe you've engaged with those services. Tell us about it. 086-60-25000. All right, let's take a piece of music, which means we have to mute on our social media live stream for about three minutes, my apologies, but stay where you are. Go and grab yourself a cup of tea you've earned it. Here are the bangles. All right, that is the bangles there. Betty Darity in Urs Manaclan Mani, 86th birthday today. Have a fantastic day, Betty, from your dear friend. Please play a request for Sammy Joe Preston from Arge Straw in Newtown Stewart, who earned great grades in her exams in Straban Academy. Love from Mammo. Thank you. Andriana French from Drum Keane is celebrating her 40th birthday today. Happy birthday, Andriana. That's coming in from your mom, Pearl, daughter, Nicole. Granny and Grandad Boyle in Tarah Court. A big hello and thanks for the trip away from Auntie Siobhan Evelyn and Marie as well. Sounds lovely. Could you play a request please for my sister, Carol, wishing her all the happiness and good health on her upcoming retirement. If you could play Dolly Parton, nine to five, that would be great. Someone will play that for you a little later on, by the way, we'll pass this request forward as well. But the request, the meaning of it, the words come from her sisters, Mildred, Rachel, Andrina and Joanne, brother-in-laws, niece and nephews with lots of love. 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But it's not like that but that's probably how it might feel. If anyone's organised a boss to Harry Starr's tomorrow evening, cancel it, he's finished up. Okay, so thank you for that. I was reading a two-day old message and I read it four times. Actually speaking of bosses, we're joined on the program now by James McGinley, owner of McGinley Coach Travel. Good morning to you James. Good morning to you. It must be very, very tough in your business at the moment because you know one of your key spends in keeping the show on the road is fuel and we know how that's increased and very little to help you out I imagine. It is fuel is a huge cost. It's probably our single biggest expense in our industry and as I said I suppose it's been going up and up and up since for the last year and a half. Have you been able to absorb it up until now James? We have up to now, we have absorbed it but as opposed you get to a point that unfortunately that it has to be passed on to the end user. As opposed the hope always was that this war in Ukraine might come to an end and that fuel prices might come back to a more as opposed normal price but at the moment as opposed to the biggest problem is that we don't even have an end in sight that even if we knew that it had captured what it was But even in that we don't know James if everything were to end and we hope it would we don't know if we would see the fuel prices drop down again they have a habit of going up especially with the move away from the likes of petrol and diesel you just wonder if they'll ever come down again. You do yes and you know as opposed we're as well as the price of fuel going up you know we're always there's always carbon taxes and others being added on to it but in saying that it's the current the current increases seem to be more and it's the fuel itself that's increasing your price rather than taxation. I'm not familiar with all the runs that you do I don't know if you but obviously what we're seeing at the moment is a discount on public transport and also you know increase in fuel prices will not be passed on to the consumer is whether it's you or your colleagues in the private sector is there an ever increasingly uneven playing field out there? Ah well there is as I said we're as opposed we're we're hearing at the at the moment the the government are talking about you know that they're going to give discounts to transport users but unfortunately that won't make its way down to any of the the long-distance services that we are indeed any of our other operators in the in the county do it it's more to do with PSO services that's you know your Dublin bus, your Lewis, your trains but that's unfair to you isn't it? Well it's unfair to us but it's also unfair to the to our customers because ultimately you know a fuel prices go up and and fares have to increase you know it's it's ultimately the the customer that's going to be paying for it so it's it's unfair to the customers that we're seeing that customers in certain parts of the of the country especially in the in the major cities are are going to be able to to find discounts and fares yet operators and in the outer laying parts of the country are not going to be able to get those. Can you claim back back on your fuel? No coach industry is actually one of the few few industries yeah so no no coach company can can claim back back it's one of the only industries in the country that that can't can't claim back back. So what do you think needs to change because the last thing you want to do is pass this on to the consumer things like not being able to claim back back which seems unfair to me maybe you know government intervention some subsidy for coach operators do you think what what do you what would you want to see happen I presume the last thing you want to see happen is your customers having to pay more? Well it has as I said you know the the price of fuel has increased that much that it's unfortunately it's inevitable that that fares will increase I mean you know consumers might not relays but a coach will will only do but eight miles per gallon so you know our busiest route which is the the Leher Kenny and and dairy services to to Dublin you know a round trip on on that will will currently burn about five six hundred euro of fuel so that's you know about three hundred more than what it would have taken to do a return journey a year ago so shocking we we we do need as opposed to to see some sort of well basically I suppose we'd what we'd really like it to be given the the same the same discounts that that the public service operators are going to get that you know that private sector could get those as well so that that it could be passed down to to consumers yeah I don't know if you tender for the likes of school runs James but you have to feel for those that do because that's a blind process isn't it and you're doing so in a presumably a pretty competitive environment with no idea of what your costs might be for the the full of the next day at school term we've a strange way of treating uh coach and bus operators in this country in the private sector well it it's not I mean the I suppose school runs are one side of it but another part of our business would be the the working for tour operators bringing tours around the country and most of the our coaches at the moment they're they're all over the country on on bringing visitors around and all of those contracts would have been saying you know a year ago again when when fuel was half of what it's that so this year is particularly difficult for for the sector yeah so you're hoping for a brighter 2023 something really in the budget because as I say with the best will in the world I can see prices plateauing at some point fuel prices maybe even coming down a litter little but the the direction of traffic is to get us out of using petrol and diesel and you just wonder if we'll ever see low prices in for those commodities ever again well the government I mean they are they're they're talking that they're trying to encourage public transport and if they're to do that they need to make public transport as as cheap as as possible to the end user to encourage them to use it by by seeing prices going up on public transport isn't the isn't the way to do that anyway so no we we we need to to see as I said we see that the same discounts that have been been offered to the to the trains and to the to the buses in the cities we need to see that expanded and and given to the to the operators that that operate regional service doesn't make any sense not to do so because as you quite rightly say you know it has to be a viable alternative you need those routes there and also I think particularly visiting more rural parts of this country you in in terms of furring tourists around the place it's an incredible how else might they get here they're not going to come up on the train they may fly up but how are they going to get from west on the gold you know I think your industry needs far more support rather than any more disadvantages well we do but it's I suppose it's we're we're looking for a fairness as well that that everybody gets the same you know that as I said you know that the people that are living in the cities and and availing of the luis and the trains that you know that that public buses would be able to get the same kind of discounts agreed okay james thanks very much indeed for that that's james mcginley their owner of mcginley coaches all right thanks for his input everything will be first class if shin fame get into government from flights housing health etc and the taxpayer will be footing the bill uh yeah we'll have to wait and see but I've been saying that for a while now uh is the internet out in the rest of letter Kenny there's a few of us in the Churchill area all without well we're currently using the the internet here at mount and top so it depends which provider you're with those well it could be a company based outage Greg you have to reapply per employer when it comes to vetting you do not get a copy yourself it goes to the employer so if you had two jobs that is two applications right so that solution that that listener called up with I wonder if they could text back and tell us more they said they got God of vetting photocopied it and included it with their CVs um so maybe it's not a solution Greg I think donnie gall would benefit with a leap card system like everywhere else in the country it's all about making transport accessible yet indeed I'm heading to letter Kenny or sorry I'm heading from letter Kenny to westport it's cheaper for me to get a bus rather than drive I couldn't find the information online ended up having to ring them the search function is awful and faulty uh another donnie gall at once again behind there's no readily 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Obviously the recent census has been conducted the grown through the figures and I just see a note there from their office preliminary figures show that the donagall population has increased by between four and five percent over the last how long is it I can't figure it out anyway since the last census 2016 wasn't it so that is six years it's increased by 4.5 percent or there thereabouts and our population now across the county 166 000 plus up from around about 158 000 so significant growth there in donagall's population all right Teresa joins us now hi Teresa hi Greg how are you I'm good thank you um because so many people I think are involved in the communities and working with schools and community groups and what have you there's loads of people out there that have fallen foul of the complication of the vetting system what's your experience been so I got guarded by it through the the gale skull when I was doing my special needs assistant I also had to get different guard of evidence through the FBI for my football club even though my current vetting for the gale skull was still active and and come now September I'm going to do work experience in a different establishment and once again I have to get guarded better for that so the same one although it's valid for three years and say the gale skull you still have to keep on every establishment to go do you have to keep on getting guard of it I suppose because something could have happened from when you got your guard of it and initially until the present time if you get me yeah but that doesn't make sense because that would mean that you could have something could have happened and you could be up to no good during the course of the three years of your first vetting if you know what I mean so in other words we'd say well we can do nothing about it if something changed in the first place but if they go to a second place in third place maybe we can pick something up but as you say the logic that you put across is probably true do you think it makes sense Theresa you can understand it but it would it not discourage people to have to go through that process all the time well it probably would but I suppose that the bottom line is that it's about the security of children and that and something is flagged up so say for example I go out and I do something wrong this weekend yeah and my guard of evidence is in the process of of you know the application is in the process for the new place I'm going to September it'll flag up in the system and then the new place as in the crash will get notified yeah I get you and I can't personally go and get myself vetted it has to so I'm going to wonder years in September they send me out the application form I fill it in and then they send it off to the guard of editing bureau so I can't turn around tomorrow and say well I want to get guard of edit you can't pre-approve yourself yeah I get you so that other person we had earlier almost to find a way around that and Theresa um it does is there any cost to you in it or no no course whatsoever no and it's still like I still have my guard of editing like three different forms in my cv folder yeah I get you yeah if I'm not going back to any of those places and I'm going to somewhere new you have to get a new one okay I do feel though for people like especially those that want to go working in as an snl what have you putting in multiple cvs and then for every job application even if they're not probably going to be shortlisted seemingly you know they're having to go through that process but if it's not they that's doing it no and it is a bit long wind like even for say the football club for example it can take anything from eight to ten weeks for the veteran to come through so it's a long process yeah okay thanks for the insight keep up the great work Theresa good luck with everything bye bye Patrick joins us now hi Patrick um is Patrick there no I've just got rid of Patrick I dumped the wrong line it's this this head called uh very serious man flu very serious block nose can't do anything um I need need care and attention uh Patrick hopefully he'll rejoin us now in a second and I will apologize uh profusely for that um uh yeah let's call earlier on about the search function on as it relates to trying to book a boss I get that by the way and I meant to say it at the time because I was looking at different options and uh for different people and myself about how you can use bosses what services available and I didn't know uh who did what where and how I don't know if there's a room for a website there even a third party website that could be supported from ads that collates or gathers all that information to say right this company goes here and there that company goes here and there do you know what I mean even if then it branched off onto their website I just think there's definitely an opening there to make it simpler to a fail of public or private transport right Patrick my apologies I'm so sorry I pressed the wrong button how are you keeping ah no boy thanks fine thanks right you have come across a person you're wondering if anyone else had what happened is someone on the letter Kenny rode from the roundabout to maybe Virginia or from last week then he was someone from Lufford roundabout and he gets on the people just left to tell us sad stories wife date is a day type one day of business to hold up big sad story when you're traveling and he's meeting friends there's no money so he gets the lift and and listen hopefully it's hopefully he's not going through this in real life but it's when he gets in the car that the the story comes out right so he talks of losing his wife he's not only lost his wife he's lost his cards he's lost his wallet he's got no cash he's got he has keys he's not eating for a couple of days and then he says if you let you I don't want you to donate this money I have access to money I'll leave it for you somewhere yeah that's exactly what he's doing and obviously it offers not happening that's as soon as he gets out of the car that's goodbye all right and you know two people ones out 50 or ones out a hundred yeah yeah and one of one of the people even give him an insulin pain because he's a type one day of business and fail all right and you thought that you kind of be without it he give him a brand new pair and you brand new that's not an insulin pain and it probably is what he's yelling he's not diabetes at all I have a photo of him now because I can attack them down at the end of and he hasn't uh he hasn't eaten for two days he hasn't eaten for two days for a long time and he hasn't ordered any new cards they just lost either because the same guy was doing the same stuff months ago yes yes yes month ago he was doing it as well and just apprehended him on friday night uh one of the people got their money back the other person didn't and phone the guards they come this is always known to us and the first question I asked him I said listen what are you using a public note this is going on I said we have known of him but we know he's at it did you did you have a conversation with this man yes and did he admit to anything he just I'm homeless and that's his answer he just shook already shoulders so he is in a difficult situation and this is his way of of supporting himself I don't know I thought you got so you weren't convinced he was homeless right okay man it could be his yeah and he's this could be very lucrative because you know he can just daisy chain around the country um down to bergen get 50 and away down and come up and get another 50 doesn't belong in a day's pay no I wouldn't be at it but you'd almost pack in what I'm doing all right okay uh right we'll see just what the people know that that is on the road come on like that's two different locations now and it just happened to be but one person here tell us all their story yeah and they relayed it on and that is how and we figured out where he was and we got him that's for the friday night the phone the yards what could they do took him away I don't know what well because people are giving the money sort of willingly I suppose and the people too I feel sorry who were kind enough to give money you know that they could have donated that money to actually you know a charity or an organization that you know genuinely needed it that's for sure so but no I just thought I'd highlight it because as I say I listened to Gouda report because they did say to us well I said to them and Friday night I said listen I just need to highlight that this is going on and that's why I listened to Gouda on on Tuesday okay all right well listen the message out there now Patrick thank you all right take care of yourself yesterday we were talking about home berthing and uh I was kind of curious as to how popular it might be there's been an increase in home berthing um I I don't know if it's based on experience but you and I'm not questioning the skill of um the stuff that would be in the home but I don't know if it's something personally I don't have babies but I don't know if it's something personally I'd be interested in but anyway we asked you out there in the great listening world would you consider a home berthing experience and this caller sorry this poll finished as follows 23% of you said yes he would consider it which is quite big it's one in four not far off it isn't um 77% though the majority said they wouldn't consider a home berthing experience okay now in these type of polls we can't filter out who's had complicated pregnancies or bad experiences or good experiences so that's just an overall catch all across the listening public so thank you for everyone who engaged in that check out our social medias just search island radio on any of them you'll get them uh she's right uh that being tereza if you got two jobs in one week you need two separate guard of vettings it's the employer who gets it not the individual it's a ridiculous system it is but as tereza quite rightly pointed out and we've made this uh when when there's been called for volunteers before we've made the point that look this is about protection of children and and adults as well of course uh so it is a good system but it's not beyond maybe a tweak you know maybe we could tweak a little bit uh i got a text yesterday from the ptsb saying that there was a transaction on my account of 178 euro and was i responsible for that transaction i know i wasn't because i'm not a customer of permanent tsp but they they're out there at the moment that's my phone moves these things to spam itself i don't know if it's the phone that does it or the network but it's very good it picks up all of those spam calls and texts but anyway the scams are going around again if i were a permanent tsp customer i probably in a panic might have pressed the link to try and stop that payment going through uh this call the reason i mentioned that is because this caller says i got a phone call saying it's from my bank it seems like a phone scam i've been trying to get in contact with the bank to make sure that is all that's uh that all is okay they're they aren't answering and as an elderly person it's extremely frustrating and worriamsome right so can you give us the nature of the phone call and which bank you're with it if you want to and we'll try and help you out in that regard i mean we can't ring the bank on your behalf but we can certainly can i just say one thing if there's a particular problem with your bank they will call you back okay they will call you back they're not going to just leave it hanging there so don't worry yourself unnecessarily um and tell us which bank it is and we'll try and get you a number that you might be able to get through uh we were talking to james mcginley there caller says what a fantastic service mcginley's here have here in donagall very lucky to have them indeed okay and you can hear from james the last thing he wants to do is to put up the price to his loyal regular and new customers he doesn't want to do it but they're not getting uh very much support it seems greg i too had to renew my medical card this year it took about three months as they looked for more info from myself and my gp and advise that couple to phone the helpline number it's on the form or perhaps you can provide it greg i don't have a number anymore i found the helpline helpful and the phone is answered fairly quickly leave it with me we'll try and do everything we can uh to help of course same problem with the medical card issues i've dry i need my drops for the rest of my life each time i go i'm getting told i need a prop need proper details this is going on six to eight months now and i'm a 24 year old on john secrets allowance greg okay yeah i don't know there's something going on there uh so we'll definitely uh chase that up uh because more and more of you are texting in and calling in with the same problems okay that is where we're going to leave it on the program today thanks to all of you who have