I'm getting on good. You've got your fancy blue shirt on you today. I have to go on foot. I think blue is your colour. I think so. What do you think? Slimming. Well, your buttons are a bit tight there. No, it's not. She's very personal. You are.  Did you ask me the question? I never asked you. Was it too tight on me? I'm just saying what I see. You were on about Oshin Kelly's... Tommy Romblin. Tommy Romblin. But it was obvious it was like a thunder. The first time it happened. I kind of looked over to me, didn't look back at me. But then the second time it was like thunder and lightning. Well, listen, leave it about six months and that's your next secret sound. What do you mean? It's a secret sound. Thunder. No, God had the sound of the... You got me confused. What are you on about? The belly Romblin? All right. That could be your secret sound. What's that? All right. But it's ruined now, isn't it? It is. It's okay. Anyway. We'll go on, won't we? My buttons aren't tight. This is kind of more of a stand-up shirt, as I call it. Do you know what I mean?  Exactly. You'll be caught. You'll be... It's not saying bits and pieces. No, it's okay. But you got nice pair. We were talking about Father's Day and I got socks for Father's Day and you were very fancy. You got trousers. Three pairs. Three pairs out of pennies. I know. They'll just do anything. But you can go for a pint in them. You can... You can go fishing. Play in the door in them. I want a pair of these. But they're elasticated at the top. What's wrong with that? I had a pair of them jeans. I think elasticated is dangerous. No, they've got the tie like... They tie at the top... They tie at the top like a pair of traxibombs. I don't like that.  But they're stand-up trousers. Well, if you want to sit down. Oh, they'll go. You have to drop them down just halfway down your thighs. Right, okay. See you tomorrow, Lee. It's news update time. Hi, Mikaela. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The care log of the Glenties Municipal District fears there's a potential for criminals to exploit the lack of garden resources in Donegal. The need for more garden vehicles and land personnel for the county has long been a cause for concern and has been raised with Guarded Commissioner Drew Harris. Councillor Michael McLaughley says Donegal cannot be left exposed to criminality. No issues for saying. I don't want to see Donegal either as a place of easy peckings or jumping around either for the other criminals as to see what's driving Donegal over there to rob a place of terror like a people go up the road again their way and all because they see there's a lack of garden. More garden, we certainly need more vehicles for them. And as I say, we do not want to end up in a situation where Donegal becomes a problematic county because as soon as easy peckings that's the last thing we want. The tonnage just says issues surrounding the deadlock northern assembly are being worked on in an effort to get it up and running. He says the British government on DUP continue to work through issues which are preventing a return to the storming assembly. The DUP has yet to nominate a speaker since the 2022 election in protest of the Northern Arnhem Protocol followed by the Windsor framework. Tanisha Mihal Martin says matters surrounding budgetary concern could be resolved if the assembly was restored. An earlier restoration of the executive and assembly would enable them to deal with the budgetary issues in a more effective way than if it was to be prolonged indefinitely. So that's adding a further if you like rationale for endeavoring to get these issues resolved as soon as we possibly can and we will continue to work with the British government and with all of the political parties in the north to bring about a restoration of the executive and the assembly. There's renewed calls for the government to crack down on big profits being made by supermarkets. A new report from the CCPC has found there's no evidence of excessive pricing in the grocery retail sector. The commission was asked to look into the matter as part of government efforts to bring down food inflation. Deputy Louise Riley claims supermarkets are taking advantage of the lack of regulation. There's a difference between a profit and an excess of profits. So it's the excess of profits that could potentially be made in the middle of a cost of living crisis that need to be tackled. The government have acknowledged themselves that the cost of living has increased hugely. What we now need to hear from them is what they're going to do with it. A public consultation on the Barnes Moor Gap Greenway project commences today. Residents in Donegal Tine, Balli Bofey and Stronauler are invited to have their say on the rich corridor options identified after the first public consultation. The first of the two-day consultation events will take place at the Ambi Hotel Donegal Tine today from 12 to 8 p.m. and tomorrow from 12 to 8 p.m. at Jackson's Hotel in Balli Bofey. Finally, for whether sunny spells and scattered showers today, some heavy which will clear later, highest temperatures of 17 to 20 degrees. That's all from high-end radio news for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Is your home or motor insurance up for renewal? Now is the time to check if your policy still offers you the right cover and the right fit at the right price. To be sure you're getting the best deal, take this opportunity to shop around. It's easier than you think. Simply contact your insurer or broker today. Remember, don't just renew. Review. For more information, visit understandinginsurance.ie. Brought to you by Insurance Ireland. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. 5 past 9 Wednesday, the 21st of June 2023. This is the longest day of the year, I believe, 17, 18 hours of daylight. And then after this, well, evens will start drawing in not straight away, but it is that time of the year. Can you believe it already? Okay, well, we're still at the start of the summer. Let's look at it like that. All right, okay, we've a busy show, as always for you today. There's lots of news, lots of stuff emerging over the course of the last 24 hours that we'll have you right across to stay exactly where you are. Get involved in the conversation. We want you to have your views. If you've never texted a radio station before to express your view, but you've got your views, well, why don't you share them with 80 odd thousand people that listen to us weekly? 086 6025,000, WhatsApps and texts to that number. Stick the number in your phone, you'll never know when you might need it. You can call Caroline on EVE 2 and 07491 25,000. And if you're an emailer, and I never really have been one for emailing, unless I have to through work. I don't think I've ever really done it for any other reason. But anyway, if you are an emailer, it's comments at highlandradio.com and you can get in touch with us that way. Right, let's run through the papers this morning. We'll start with the locals, of course, as we always do. The Innistimes, they have a story. Their headline reads, Man charged with raping woman twice.  The accused man, who is in his 30s, cannot be named to protect the identity of his alleged victim. He's charged with raping the woman twice at the same named location on September 29th, 2019. The case was mentioned at Latter-Canada District Court before Judge Attain Cunningham. On to the Donegal post this morning, the fishing industry is facing the greatest challenges of our time with a decline in the number of young people joining the industry and a serious decline in profits reaped from the processing and exporting sector, according to the chief executive officer of the Irish Fish Processors and exporters Association, Brendan Burn. And I, as an outsider looking on, it seems to be me like an industry that's lost a generation, may lose another, and it's kind of being there's no future for it. It feels like a sunset industry to me. Not that that's what I want, but that's how it seems to be being treated by the powers that be. Maybe that is not the case. If you're in the industry, you want to have a conversation about it, you know the numbers get in touch. Well, the CEO, Brendan Burn, said there is no doubt we're facing the greatest challenges at the time as a result of Brexit and the TCA agreement. I suppose historically he says we have been treated very unfairly by the common fisheries policy. They only allow us to catch on average 15% of all the fish in Irish waters. The other 85% is shared among other EU countries. Now, also, this is a by the by, and it's probably nothing, but maybe you are someone who goes out for a fish there and chatting to a few people who are something as simple as mackerel. And they're reporting, they said, they're very, very small, and one or two of them concluded that is that because all the bigger fish are being swooped up by the nets of these big industrial ships, these factories that are going around our coast, you would hope not, but that's what some people who fish on a regular basis suggest. Now, it is early in the year, it's only June, but some said to me that it's only we mackerel that are about, because the big ones are being caught accidentally in nets. Could there be anything to that? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Michael's Walk for Alzheimer's from Scotland to Rafoe, that's the Finn Valley voice. A Scottish man has walked from Fife in Scotland to Rafoe in Donegal in memory of his grandfather and to raise funds for Alzheimer's Scotland in 1947. Vincent Hamilton, a Rafoe man, left for Scotland with two of his brothers, Jack and Dick, to find work. Sadly, he passed away this year, suffering from Alzheimer's at the age of 94. And there's more on that epic walk on the inside of that paper. No one wants to see increased taxes or indeed it seems more spending on capital projects. That's the big conversation that's happening at the moment, as the conversation really starts to talk about what might be contained in Budget 2024. The front of the Irish Independent reads that a budget giveaway risks causing damage to the economy, the central bank has warned. The message of caution comes three months out from Budget Day and could Scotch-Finnigale plans for lower taxes on middle-income earners a call that has divided the coalition and we live in a strange world. Again, sorry for the caveat, but I'm not obviously a financial expert. But what I'm hearing, the conversations I'm hearing is that those that are squeezed and poor, you have to leave them like that, right? Because if you make life easier for them or more affordable, then inflation goes up and then it's bad for the economy and so on and so forth. So when we have an economy that some people believe is performing to its maximum, right? And I think most of you listening, some of you are well off and that's fantastic, right? But a lot of people are the squeezed middle whereby both of you or one of you is working in the house and you're just covering the cost of things and maybe a young one's coming towards third-level education and you're thinking, well, how are we going to afford that? Or maybe you are on a lower income or unemployed and every day's a struggle. It's difficult. You're one of the people that are going to the food banks and rather than you being helped, it seems that those, and I listen to people talking about this on the radio and they seem to have plenty of money, they are saying, you need to stay in that position. You need to not help you because if we do help you, everything becomes more expensive. Now, there's a serious issue with the balance of the economy there, isn't there? That helping people, easing pressure on the squeezed middle or indeed more targeted supports for those who are struggling, it seems from what I hear from experts that to help you is bad for the economy and that you must stay as you are. This was the rich get richer and they don't face any further encroachments on their income or what have you seemingly. Now, as I say, I am not a financial expert, but that to me stinks. There's something seriously missed there that you keep your foot on people to protect the economy, but for who are you protecting the economy? When a lot of people, they are literally living in a recession. Now, if anyone can explain that to me, how that's right or how that's fair or how a system is set up to perform like that, I'd be very interested to find out. To the point whereby they're saying that these advisors and opinion makers are saying even the government can't use money to spend on capital projects, greater investment, that could probably even be the defective concrete scheme because they're afraid it would overheat the economy. But for who are they protecting? Is it us as a whole? I don't know, because we're seeing services that are poor and people that are working and not working that are under pressure. But you can't help them, they say, because that is bad for the economy. Well, anyway, as I say, that's just a take from listening to people. I don't claim to know, but if you want to talk about that, get in touch. In fact, a central bank analysis published today says higher taxes may soon be required, higher taxes may soon be required to cool demand, tame prices and wage demands, and keep the economy overheated. So that's to say that even those that can afford to spend, you need to tax them so they stop spending. And also there's a problem now that people are getting paid too much money because the economy is at full, apparently it's at full whack, and people are getting pay rises, and that's bad for the economy as well. So you getting pay rises is bad for the economy. So what they have to do is fix the economy so that A, you have less money in your pocket through tax increases, B, figure out a way that you don't get pay rises, while inflation, I'll read on here, is expected to continue to ease between now and 2025. Core inflation, which strips at volatile food and energy prices, is predicted to continue rising until the end of the year, reaching 4.9% on average this year, and outpacing headline inflation by 2025. But we as the ordinary folk are going to have to start getting a handle on this and stop having people talking about us and our lives and our situations and start taking a little bit of control, so that one might feel. In the Irish Times today, a key member of the Standards in Public Office commission, SIPO, warned of the risk of credibility issues emerging for the ethics watchdog when it rejected a complaint against T-Shuck Leo for Radcar. Now, again, it's not going to sound like a moan this morning, but this person doesn't have their finger on the pulse if they're concerned about credibility issues emerging. I think they're out there. Anyway, the concerns raised by Comptroller and Auditor General, James McCarthy, are revealed in a note dissenting from a vote by three SIPO members against holding a preliminary inquiry into Mr. Radcar's leak of a draft medical contract. His observations were released after the Irish Times appealed a freedom of information ruling on the case to the information commissioner who decides on such appeals. There's not a ton in the papers, by the way. Today I'm not going to lie to you. So we're going to be rattling through them. The sun this morning, fuel prices have soared 4% since the last month following a rise in excise duty on petrol and diesel. New figures from AA Ireland show the average price for petrol now stands at $165, and it is much cheaper elsewhere with the average price for diesel at $153. Duty on petrol increased by 6% per litre and 5% per litre on diesel on June 1. And on average, petrol prices have increased by 8% per litre and diesel by 6% per litre. Following the June 1 increase, another increase will come into effect on September 1. So I think really what those figures tell us is that the increases are in line with the tax increases and not gouging. That's what I think they're suggesting. More on this story, and we're going to be talking to someone who has dived to the Titanic? No, have they? Yeah, okay, we're going to be speaking to someone who dove, dived, dove, dived, dived to the Titanic previously. And they're going to be speaking to us in the context of the ongoing search by rescuers who have said little as 24 hours to save the Titanic explorers before their oxygen runs out. This is the Irish Daily Mail now, so unconfirmed reports coming out of America. And this is good news, but it must be horrendous for those, if they're still alive trapped in this submersible, is that a plane or a boat or something is picking up banging every half an hour in the vicinity of where contact was lost with this submarine. So as it stands now, I don't know how they retrieve it or how they find it. As I said in the show yesterday, I don't understand why it doesn't have all bells and whistles to help track it, but then reading on here or reading in another paper, this thing is put together almost like with sticky tape. The pilot uses an Xbox controller to steer it, right? So it's an adapted Xbox controller. The lighting inside is bought from a camping shop. So, and you have to sign away your rights getting into it because it was deemed to be so dangerous. But anyway, at a dramatic press conference last night, US Coast Guards revealed the complexity and sheer scale of the search operation to trace their missing submarine. Now, to put this into context, it took ages to find the Titanic, which is huge. This thing is tiny by comparison. They said the cramped vessel with five men aboard had just 40 hours of breathable air and it could be used up by around 10 a.m. tomorrow Irish time. Now, the ships, planes and underwater drones looking for it. But as I say, what emerged overnight and it's not going to make the papers this morning is that they are picking up sort of phone or banging in half an hour periods and they believe that this could well be them reaching out for help. Just a follow-up from the story yesterday in the Irish Daily Star, Dave Fanning has publicly apologised to Christy Dignam's family after he was slammed for his inappropriate tribute to the late singer. The Aslan frontman sadly died last Tuesday after a 10-year cancel battle. Fanning was among the contributors paying tribute to Christy last Wednesday on Claire Burns' Radio One show, but fans were left angered after he said Christy blew it royally with his success due to his substance abuse. Fanning broke his silence and said he was wrong and that he was actually trying to highlight deeper issues in Ireland during the 80s again different time, different place, maybe would have been better. In a statement, he said he missed the mark and said his tribute was ill-timed and in poor taste and went on to apologise to his family and it was a fulsome apology in fairness to him and also to say how much he liked and respected Christy and the rest of Aslan. And very finally in the Irish Daily Mirror this morning, price rises for fruit and veg are inevitable due to a perfect storm of poor weather and producers leaving the market it was claimed yesterday shortfalls and staples such as broccoli, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower onions and potatoes are coming that follows a scarcity of cucumber lettuce, peppers, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes and turnips earlier this year Paul Brophy, a grower and former chair of the Irish Farmers Association's Horticultural Division said we backed into a corner because we are dependent on very high prices of imported products, okay, so that story is going to rumble again it's back, right? 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Travel Route 32 from Letterkennycu Dublin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time OK the time is 20 past 9 now a County by County breakdown was released this week which shows 1300 complaints were made about lawyers during the last year in Dublin it was top of the table 504 Donagall had 53 complaints which ranked it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Brian Doherty is CEO of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority and joins us now Brian thanks for joining us I do appreciate your time today Oh sorry I beg your pardon I had the wrong fader up sorry Brian good morning to you once again good morning very glad to be here that's a me problem OK so where do we when we talk of 1,352 complaints last year does that show a robust transparent complaint system does it show that people have growing concerns in the work of lawyers what's your read on it well it does display a level of faith in the regulator and that consumers are bringing complaints to us to the LSRA and hope that we can assist them to resolve them it doesn't cause concern in relation to the delivery of legal services across the state we've done other research that would show a high level of appreciation and satisfaction broadly but in the delivery of services sometimes issues do occur and thankfully we're here to provide a free and independent service should that arise to help to resolve complaints and to investigate them where necessary now the 13,152 complaints is that the totality or those that were deemed to be admissible no that's the totality of the previous in the year so it's 1,052 complaints that's down 15% from 2021 we had 1,599 complaints that reduction is generally due to a reduction in complaints in relation to banking undertakings where banks have left the marketplace and had made complaints before they acted what are the consequences for what happens next so I ring up or I submit sorry I complained Brian with the legal services regulatory authority and it's deemed that my complaint is admissible so what happens then should someone make a complaint and determine to be admissible there are three categories of complaints I deal with complaints about inadequate services or excessive costs first so if someone feels that the service they've got or they feel that they've been overcharged and those complaints have been determined to be admissible then we'll attempt to resolve that complaint between the complainant and the legal practitioner so we can either do that by attempting to mediate ourselves or we have a panel of mediators that we work with and we'll have success where we can get both parties to agree and that's the matter resolved then if we feel to resolve it if it's not possible to do so then the legal practitioner itself can go on to determine the complaint so we can decide that the service is fine or the costs weren't excessive or where we find that the service was inadequate we can direct the legal practitioner to fix the service or transfer documents or perhaps pay compensation to the complainant if we decide that the costs were excessive then we can direct the legal practitioner to refund the cost or weave the cost and that's all subject then possibly to review the committee's decisions there's an appeal mechanism effectively for complaints of misconduct they get sent to a independent complaints committee which sits a bit like a court but you can only hear like if you have it and you can also get evidence directly from the complaint and the legal practitioner and they have a range of sanctions at their disposal should they find that the complaint effectively is upheld at the more serious end there's actually another body called the legal practitioner which sits in a tribunal and they deal with matters where there might be misconduct and again they have a wide range of sanctions from censure all the way up to applying to the high court to have someone struck off or that they're restricted and their level of practice as either a solicitor or a barister what happens if they don't find follow the directions of the LSA well that's an interesting question because that's the space you find yourselves in 2022 and I would stress a small number of cases it was in seven cases where we'd issued a direction and the legal practitioner either ignored it or failed to comply with the direction and that direction may have been to pay compensation or to hand over a file and when that doesn't happen the LSA has no hesitation in taking them out of the high court and applying for an order of enforcement I would say though that these are legal professionals that this wastes valuable time and resources of the LSA it adds to the cost of the LSA which is passed on to legal practitioners by way of a lavy and ultimately passed on to the consumer so disappointing that we were reporting in 2023 of having to make seven applications to the high court to enforce statutory orders made under the regulatory scheme this is not a criticism of solicitors or baristers who argue that perhaps they're well equipped to frustrate a process or delay a process given their knowledge base do you find that happens an awful lot or are they very quick to work with you? Well about 23% of the cases that we received last year were resolved so those are cases where legal practitioner engages with the LSA and they find an early resolution to the complaint so a quarter of matters brought to successfully resolve between the parties so that's heartening there are some legal practitioners who don't feel that they can resolve these matters and those cases can become quite drawn out and quite contentious on occasion Can I ask, it's a complicated area if I'm picking up correctly a lot of this could be feelings that people might have do you know what I mean and then you have to represent those or maybe these are the ones that are filtered out but then the lawyer or barister might have a very different take on the situation but I suppose that's what the whole process is about Brian it's getting to the bottom of all of that It is indeed and you do understand that whenever people seek legal services it's frequently because something in their life they're being sued or they're suing someone or perhaps it's a criminal matter or a family law matter and those things are all quite emotive or perhaps it's in relation to a a conventional house which can be quite stressful so frequently consumers whenever they come to us there's already something that's gone wrong but I would say and one of the key masters we have a lot of resources on our website www.lsra.ie and we publish reports every six months which we hope will assist the complainants and legal practitioners and they explain the complaints process the type of complaints we receive the type of complaints we can deal with and sort of frequently we put in issues that frequently occur in relation to legal services as a way of explaining to consumers of legal services as to what actually might happen in certain cases and for legal practitioners to see where their risk area is in relation to complaints I presume then a typical example that might be and we get a lot of calls in here sometimes we do a legal item Brian whereby someone might say they've been waiting for a year for a will to be resolved and they might think that that's unacceptable making a complaint and then you might determine well sometimes that can actually be the case is that area isn't that kind of it's complicated sometimes absolutely and one of our reports we're actually going to focus some will and probate to try and explain some of the timelines and sometimes we get complaints where we look at it and go right that has taken too long but there's others we look at it and see there's family circumstances under way there could be a tax issue there could be beneficiaries who are hard to track down who live, who are the amigrated etc. so there could be issues that you don't get that but certainly wills and probate and the administration of the states has been esteemed since we started taking complaints it's in relation to inadequate service complaints it's the third highest category of issues that lead to complaints is around probate with litigation and convincing being the first and in excessive cost we didn't receive many complaints and we received five was one of the complaints in there but again I would say on the website www.alacery.ie and on our reports loads of information but by just any consumer I don't understand why we don't have any details where they are loaded and stored especially into country, into county it would streamline things to a great extent I would imagine Brian finally at what point does someone contact you then do you know what I mean like say for instance if you're engaging with an ombudsman there's a process you have to go through in terms of first raising your complaint with the body itself and you've dissatisfied then you can move on to the next level so at what point in a when someone's unhappy with that Brian should they contact the LSRA well they do we encourage although it's not mandatory we encourage where possible that if you have an issue with your legal practitioner and your client or legal practitioner to raise the matter with them in the first instance because often again these things can be resolved if it's a communication issue if it's something simple so we do encourage that but it's not mandatory you can come straight to us and the other thing is though as we are independent we can't provide legal life so if someone comes to us saying do I have grounds for complaint unfortunately we have to the complaint has to be lodged before it enters the statutory process but again as I said plenty of information on our website and we can also be contacted LSRA-NBOX at LSRA.ie or the complaints email address complaints at LSRA.ie should anyone have any concerns or queries indeed Brian and I think it'd probably be helpful the public for them to let them know in interactions with people that they're aware of the LSRA as well and who's to say that that might not even help resolve situations before they're escalated alright Brian thanks for your time this morning appreciated thank you very much Brian Darity CEO of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority good morning to John, Annie, Anna and Charlie they're amongst our watchers today and we have for years now on our social media and websites so people can watch the program you can put it up on your big screen see most of our guests you'll be able to see our next guest for an example we play some videos out too we were talking about like a lady yesterday whose house was struck by lightning we were able to show that video for you it's a different way for you to engage with the show if it suits you in your life YouTube, Highland Radio Arland that's good for your phone your smart TV, most of your TVs are smart TV and have the YouTube app on them you might as well use it we're also on Facebook Highland Radio Hub Highland Radio News & Sport and you can also watch it on Twitter I'm not really into Twitter anymore but that'd be that as it may you can still watch it there or on our website highlandradio.com and Charlie Arn Facebook made an interesting point it's a pity all the asylum seekers drowned in the Mediterranean there's a few billionaires on a sightseeing trip and it is a perfectly valid point and it is a human condition it is just the way it is if you have two newspapers that are sat down in a newsagents and one has this submarine story with all the graphics and stuff and one has the story of one has the story of that awful awful tragedy mind-boggling tragedy in the Mediterranean Charlie and I'll ask you directly and everyone else as well if there's a hundred copies of each which do you think would sell out first and I would argue that the public would go for the submarine story I mean this is five people who are lost at sea and the story is rolling on its headlines right across the world but if this were five people that God forbid sadly died in a in a road crash in south of France you would never hear about it you would never know what actually happened but it's just something about these stories it's the uniqueness of it it's the fact that it's a submarine and people can say God I would hate that or whatever it might be it's the fact that it's at sea and it just is a story that's eventually going to be made into a film and as I say I don't know exactly why but that's just the way it is the public would be far more interested in this story than the might the other one that was mentioned I'd say it's probably not a good thing but I think it is the way it is watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com without missing the crack we watching classics and learning new tricks being driven to the biggest game of your life by your mam and then you finally come on in the 51st minute it's the minor moments that last a lifetime the electric Ireland GAA minor championships this is major Nissan is dominating the Irish market with petrol, e-power hybrid and electric models calling the iMotors today we're sure to 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this news for ATU in particular Orle we are absolutely delighted with the news I think it's a ringing endorsement for the quality of education that we offer and it also sends a strong signal of our ambition for regional provision right across the northern and western region what was particularly pleasing for me about the announcements this morning and we look forward to hearing more detail on it during the day but what was particularly pleasing to me is it kind of reinforces the wisdom of establishing Technological Universities because it's allowed us to bring our teams together from Donegal Sligo Mayo and Galway and having staff collaborating to respond to these kind of calls has really borne fruit for us now and ATU I mean it's very early days but how might this look do you think in terms of what might be provided, how and where and as I say Orle and the listeners would know we're really early days on this but do you sort of have a vision in your mind yeah so I want firstly to pay a big shout out to a number of colleagues really who led on this so I might start with the veterinary and the veterinary was led by two wonderful colleagues Dr Joanne Gallagher Dr Kenny and Joanne already offers veterinary nursing and that provided us with a very solid basis for considering a bid in the first place and very happy then to have Dr Joanne Gallagher collaborating with Dr Edna Curley who is the principal of Montbelly Agricultural College in East Galway and that's a working farm we have cattle and sheep and the opportunity to provide access to animals and handling animals and they've come up with a really innovative bid and it will involve close collaboration with veterinary practitioners in Donegal and in Galway but it also will involve building facilities in Letter Kenny and that was part of our bid so the students will be predominantly based throughout their studies in Donegal, in Letter Kenny and they will spend a semester in Montbelly as well on the farm really innovative bid I'm delighted to see it got to the final stage and I'm delighted to see it included in the announcement because again the northern western region is very under served in terms of provision of this kind then move on to pharmacy and pharmacy again points to the strength of our science and medical science in particular across ATU and that bid was led by colleagues in Sligo and supported by colleagues in Donegal and in Galway so delighted to see that we've run over the ground and there are a number of new buildings already coming on stream or hopefully later in this year and we're looking forward to being able to maybe swiftly get programs up and running there and they will be based in Sligo and not forgetting our nursing so nursing was also included in the expressions of interest and listeners might be aware that we're also involved in a tertiary application as well but this particular nursing was for additional nursing places and again Donegal is part of that in Lederkenny Sligo is part of that through our St. Angeles involvement and we're looking forward to St. Angeles integrating into ATU a bit later in the year and of course our Mayo campus as well so again that really strong provision our neighbors in Galway of course have also seen success in in pharmacy and in nursing too so we are seeing that strong regional provision and I really would like to see the government follow through on their commitment to that when it comes to the delivery How does that work because there's some speculation that the likes of the UCD might have a head start in certain areas because they might have the infrastructure in place you've already recognized that there will be some infrastructural development required some already on the way do you hope maybe and in which disciplines to start delivering places across the ATU campuses well we're already trying to increase our intake and nursing as I mentioned through the tertiary award provision and to the extra places scenario and in that regard the only thing that's holding us back there is the availability of placements and there's been a lot of engagement with both the Department of Health and the HSE in that regard and that dialogue will continue for this particular call that was announced this morning we have indeed looked for capital investment so you know that might take a bit longer if we were fairly sure of that we certainly could start provision in rented facility or rented premises and allow the building work to catch up on that but I think the earliest intake for the pharmacy would have been September 2024 and the earliest provisions for veterinary start would have been the following September and that would have been our aim there with the building to catch up afterwards and that's certainly a possibility for us yeah I mean it is short term too which is good just in terms of the veterinary places because that's one of the issues we've talked a bit about on this show like do you anticipate less people travelling to Poland for an example to continue their studies or do you think that we'll actually see more people choosing this as a career path because they can do it perhaps arguably closer to home or within the contract how do you think that will the balance will be there well look it possibly will be a combination of both and you'd like to see it being a combination of both I believe that there is a university in Poland that has more Irish students studying in it I think there's something like 30 of an intake this year coming and I was talking to somebody in Galway whose daughter is studying there and she was saying that next year is 26 in her class from Ireland 30 coming in next year and that's probably more than the number of Irish students studying in UCD in all of Ireland at the moment so there's a real demand and you know Ireland is strong in agriculture and as we shift our agricultural practices you know towards more sustainable agriculture I think you know the attention being paid to the availability of veterinary and sustainable veterinary practices will be a key part of that I guess that there will be other people who might have been thinking of veterinary or people who might have gone down the nursing route hoping to get into veterinary medicine afterwards and we've had some graduates from Donegal who've gone on to become veterinary surgeons afterwards some of them may go straight now into a veterinary medicine route so probably a bit of both You've spoken publicly about inequality and if I'm at any time misquoting you please and I'm sure you will Dr it correct me but you've talked about inequality in terms of the spend per head per student in the north west you know a lower amount of students going on to third level the lack of professors across a certain line in the country is this going some way to addressing that do you think and if it is how far is it going because I think it's really important that the public understand that there are people like you and your colleagues right at the very top of third level education in this region that are batting for the students batting for investment batting for the potential of the likes of the ATU to be fully realized so frame this announcement in that conversation and if it is a step in the right direction you know how large a step might that be where it gets a tiny step it is a step in the right direction but what it actually is is an endorsement of the quality of the university that is ATU and I think that has got to shine through however long it takes to get that program up and running we need to remain committed to that because we would not be getting a program in veterinary medicine unless it was deemed to be high quality by an independent panel of experts who through a very cold eye and all the submissions that came in and you know that for me is primary kind of really bright spark on this that we have quality people in our university with ambition to deliver far the region so no matter how long it takes we're going to have to persevere and make sure that we get that over the line so that's one thing and I'm certainly very committed to that the other issues are going to take longer and I have spoken publicly I want to do a big shout out to colleagues in the northwest regional assembly our campuses overlap significantly with the northern and western region territory the counties of the northern and western region and they have excellent economists and John Daly in particular has shared some slides recently on the kind of the inequalities in terms of disposable income per head of population is only in Donegal for example is only about 75% of the national average and none of the counties in our region are performing well in that regard the percentage of people who have at most primary education and that's highest unfortunately in our region and again particularly around Donegal and the border counties so there's an awful lot of work that needs to be done I suppose the slide that surprised me most that he shared was the investment in Donegal for undergraduate teaching and learning per student is lower in the northern and western region 27% lower actually so there are a lot of hard conversations to be had unwilling and up for having them and but this is a step in the right direction and very finally there is a strong connection isn't there between investment in education and then the general prosperity in a region so if we start getting one right it will have a knock on effect I presume absolutely and again we know what those benefits are there's support for research and development it encourages partnerships, collaborations the engagement with industry having a high performing university an academic institution means that foreign direct investment is attracted to the region and not just attracted to establish but attracted to grow and we've seen that actually in Ireland and elsewhere in Ireland we've seen where we have Science Foundation Ireland funded research centres where we've had high performing universities good collaborative research with industry we've seen not just FDI investment but we've also seen reinvestment and growth and big announcements about additional funding as institutes of technology in a way we single-handedly transform the landscape when we were established as regional technical colleges because we provided what a lot of those companies needed and we continued to do so but now we need to take that big leap and we need to become, we need to engage in a little bit more well a lot more I would argue of the kind of research, high value ad, industry focused research that can really bring our region to the next level you know so there are a lot of indicators around why the northern and western region is a region in transition it isn't as well performing in the innovation space and having a university that is enabled to perform the kind of research that is needed the presence of strong research centres of excellence all of that will trigger growth in industry and employment Alright Aura, thank you very much indeed for your time, Dr Aura Flynn President of the Atlantic Technological University and it's great if we get more people qualified and as I say that path is not for everyone but I'll tell you one thing I was scrolling through social media yesterday and the amount of mums and dads and granny and grandads saying goodbye to young people who are getting on planes go away parties, boyfriends and girlfriends groups of friends, groups of girls groups of boys heading being taken down to Dublin airport on a plane to wherever they're going and I wish them all the love and happiness and it's exciting and if people are choosing to do that fantastic, you can't shackle them at home, it's brilliant but and I've found myself having to post about it on social media I don't think there's so many people are leaving because they have to because they don't see a future here a lot of our young people particularly here in the north west don't see a future and it's heartbreaking so it's great if we improve education and improve people's qualifications if that's the life path they want but we have to have opportunities for them there it is just it breaks my heart to see so many people going and many people join with me in saying that and yes of course we all recognise as I mentioned that for some it's an experience it's exciting, they'll go away for a year they'll come back for... you see images of people 18, 19, 20 with their families about to board planes until the next time you see them they'll probably have two kids and be in their late 20s or something or not with kids, they'll just be completely different people how big of a problem is that how big of a problem is immigration are you seeing your young people having to leave I mean as I say let's recognise brilliant, some people will go have the experience but what's it like for you I can't put myself in the position to be that conversation where John or Jane sits down and says do you look mum, look dad there's nothing for me here I've a mate working out in Australia and he says he can get me to start straight away and I have somewhere to stay and I can earn such and such a year or whatever it might be is that conversation happening at your kitchen table how does it feel, share that experience it must be devastating I would struggle to deal with it Dr Joe Kelly's with us Dr Joe Kelly thanks very much for joining us how are you keeping imagine why you've got Greg, it's a good morning to you it's good to have you on our programme right, you've been talking about how you've been struggling actually, I don't need to set it up, you come in here off the back of that conversation what do you want to say Joe just to welcome the movements the LIAT now which is the ATU there's been great advancements in the last year there's no doubt about that with the expansion and the interconnection of the different campuses which facilitate more courses there's a very proactive wide visioned attitude that is going to develop the whole Northwest something that I've been watching very much on I serve in the Western Development Commission which does great work in trying to develop the west of Ireland and create opportunities for employment culture, heritage, that kind of idea but it's worthwhile living here the quality of life and I've just heard you there when you were talking about young people leaving, that's a sad reality and if you look at some of the school perspectives that children would do leaving certain students maybe create books at the end of the year their hopes and their ambitions, what they liked etc, many of them their ambition is to leave this country it's a question that you've asked it's very pertinent can I ask a question Joe is they actually genuinely themselves feel that that's their only options and how much is it listening to us as more mature people is it a reality that they have to or are we creating the environment where they feel there's nothing for them do you get where I'm coming from are we talking the country down or is it a reality that there's not enough here for them and they have to leave are we saying you'll never own a house where maybe we should be saying do you know what this country might be don't let that be your target don't let that be your ambition build up your resources, rent you don't have an anchor then and it's a beautiful place to be do you know, I wonder are we consciously or subconsciously talking them out of Ireland or are they themselves looking around and saying there's nothing for me here it depends how you look at it and it depends you could be right on both sides of that Greg and you just take for example Ireland, Ireland is considered the top third wealthiest country in the world yet we're the tenth most indebted country in the world so what story do you want to tell do you want to tell that we're really wealthy or do you want to tell it that we're really in debt so it's how you tell the story and it's the same for young men and young women leaving there are lack of opportunities in many ways with employment and comparison with going abroad before about the concrete tax basically that is a tax on young people because young people have to but and this is government policy and if you look at policy after policy pensions employment for example the teaching qualification they've extended it out for two years when I was a teacher it only took one year so it takes students more money to qualify and then it's one year less pension it's one year less than a permanent job I want to bring you back on and talk about the investment in history and culture and what have you but I don't have time because we've just up against ten but what we'll do is we'll arrange to have that conversation again because I think it's the same but somewhat separate and I really do have to break for the news Dr Joe Kelly is always great to chat 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The doll has been told that bureaucracy is costing schools thousands of euro because they're not being supported when they take in children from asylum seeker and refugee families W. Pothick McLaughlin told the doll this morning that schools are being penalized for nurturing and supporting children he raised the example of Sisiunil National School which he says is being penalized for nurturing and supporting children the school population has grown by a third in the current year but when they went to the funds they were told he says to approach charitable organizations Sisiunil National School had 152 children enrolled in September as you know September 30th is when you report the enrollment within weeks they had an extra 52 children from asylum seeker and refugee families that's an increase of one third in the school population but they have not received any additional financial support as would be normal they estimate the loss to their school they estimate its cost them over 30,000 euro they have nothing left in their account apparently officials from the Department of Education advised them to consider going to Vincent de Paul or the Red Cross Sisiunil National School had all and that was W. Pothick McLaughlin speaking in the doll this morning look here look all the dentism is a district fears that there is a potential for criminals to exploit Donaigol the need for more gar the vehicles and personnel for the county has long been a cause of concern and it's been raised with Commissioner Drew Horace Councilor Michael McLaughlin says Donaigol cannot be left exposed to criminal poverty I don't want to see Donaigol either as a place of easy pickings or dumping for any other criminals driving to Donaigol for there to rob a place of care for people go up the road again their way and all because of lack of G. R. D. again we need more G. R. D. we certainly need more vehicles for them and I say we do not want to end up in the situation where Donaigol becomes a problematic county because as soon as easy pickings that's the last thing we want a public consultation on the Barnasmore Gap Greenway project commences today interested parties in the Donaigol town and Twin Towns area are being urged to come forward and make their views known with more detail here's Miquela Clark the project is currently in the option selection stage which involves the development and assessment of potential root corridors to determine a preferred option following the feedback received during the first non statutory public consultation a number of root corridor options have been identified residents of the Donaigol town and Balibu faced northern areas members of the public and other interested parties are being invited to participate in the second non statutory public corridor options to in-person public consultation events will take place the first 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nothing surprises me at this point hopefully I'll pay it this month anyway but you know yourself it's not insignificant in terms of the amount back to that submarine story remember the cost Greg which I don't to be honest with you they were banging as well at least every half hour it's coordinated so hopefully they recovered alive in time it's still like searching for a needle in a haystack of needles because the amount of water in the depth of it is so significant but fingers crossed house insurance hi Greg, cheapest house insurance we could get was a thousand euros they said all insurance has gone up 125 euro we paid 695 on last year's price that seems way more than 125 euro yeah indeed it is the cheapest you could get was a thousand that was an interesting conversation we had yesterday so if any of you have been shopping around for insurance and you can tell us that story what it was this year what your renewal was what you got it for it might be helpful to other listeners if Brian who we spoke to earlier about complaints against lawyers and barrister says if Brian wants to feel real dissatisfaction you should meet with alienated parents many who do not complain as they feel it's worthless but it's worthless you have to use the mechanism but I really understand I think I understand your frustration Patrick messaged in I was in the traffic at the weekend and ended up sitting for over 40 minutes for 3 motorbikes to move into the town not a single car moved in that time it only added to the chaos of traffic in that time I watched 2 ambulances sit in the queue alright thank you very much for that hi I was just wondering how long is the driving waiting list for letter Kenny I've been on the waiting list for 16 weeks and still no invitation I did try ring but just an automated service where it says they cannot give dates over the phone they can't but if you've access to the internet if you go on to if you google driver driving test estimator the RSA has an estimator on it now I'll talk about that in a moment but maybe have used it but if you go on to the if you google driving test estimator you scroll down and if it's cars you click into category B if you put in your driver number which is on your provisional license and your date of birth it will estimate when you will be invited for an invite so that will give you some idea 16 weeks it sounds like you should be due it soon that being said my own son is waiting on his and he's been waiting as long as that 16 weeks he's the estimator says he will get an invite mid July now then it went back to late July then it went to early July and then it went to mid July again and from talking to other people who've been waiting they say that normally you get the invite a week or two before the estimator says do you get me so if you want some idea Google driving test estimator putting your driver number your date of birth and you will get an estimation as to when you can expect to be invited and then after three weeks before you actually sit the test I'm on a long term medication says this listener and I noticed in the small print for the past few months I've been getting a generic version of the medication obviously the pharmacy has been doing this already I don't mind as I trust the pharmacist but should I be getting exactly what I'm prescribed at the moment until they make this change I'm just a bit confused well when the patent runs out in medicine my understanding is that all of the recommended stuff or the generic versions are all the exact same now again open to correction on this but that's what I was told by a pharmacist so the generic is the exact same what I was told as the one that maybe originally held the original patent actually Caroline if you want to put through the next caller because I don't have that outbreak earlier key for your data on your own server this data center is a good PR nonsense they're using 15% of our electricity swimming off too much government propaganda today but it's not propaganda you have a different opinion but I get you okay I get you let me see it appears that the HSE has learned no lessons from Lee Cross in Donegal once again with a young person who was vulnerable and placed in a nursing home which was acceptable to her needs HIKWA was set up to stop these instances happening but again a systems failure has had devastating consequences for a young girl and her family is anyone in the HSE going to take responsibility for these cases you would hope so right okay more about the emigration conversation Carmel joins us Hi Carmel good to have you on the show thanks for being here we were talking a little bit about emigration you emigrated in the late 90s didn't you was that by choice you wanted to see the world Carmel or did you feel you had to or what was the thought process at the time well I had a good job at the time it's just that I wanted to travel and see a bit of the world and I always liked the thought of Australia more so than America but I was so glad that I did because it was a great experience very good became very independent because you had to there was no one making up yourself but I would advise any young person now a day to go travel because it is a brilliant experience and become very independent and I loved it I was in tears leaving Dublin and I was in tears leaving Sydney do you mind me asking because it's some time ago I don't think it's private what did you work at the first time you went over Carmel I advise anyone going over now the first thing you need to do well after you get some kind of accommodation would be set up your bank account and get your like your like similar to our PPS number like your tax number that would be the two most important things to do for anybody traveling first of all but I had worked doing a lot kind of either accounts administration when you went over you need to have your CV already and just go around all the time and leave in your CV and I just went mostly actually I got one agency that got me all my work I worked for Poloed Australia for a couple of weeks I worked was it Proctor and Gamble and then I went the majority of my work I was working for a company they put up mobile phone math and we had to make up the booklet so you just had to go around to and then make up the book for all the different math but I loved it it was a great way to meet it was the first time actually I was on a train when I went to leave you to my goal that doesn't surprise me because you have to know and say alright what station I'm at or do you have to I always say make sure if you doze off make sure you wake up at the station before you go to get off to make sure you do get off I need to get off this train station and take your way to the next platform to get your next train to get there and what was the balance of life like Carmel is it a nice place to live the work life balance the social life maybe that's a good selling point for Australia the way I look at it there is jobs in Ireland if you want to work and it's the same like in Australia but the weather of course which we've all enjoyed but you've got these all beautiful beaches and like Australia there is the Hunter Valley Wainry which I remember doing a lovely tour of when I was there and then you have like for me I would say my highlight for Australia would probably do in a tandem skydive 14,000 feet when I was there you know different views like the things like you know I was on top of Uluru or Ayres Rock back then you can't do that now Climbs of the Harbour Bridge you know I've been to New oh yeah like I covered half of Australia I was at Melbourne Grand Prix I took a trip for two weeks one tour over to New Zealand and it was my first time up on a helicopter and walking on the Frans Joseph Glacier you know there's so much like you can go to a lot of Australians go to Bali on their holidays you're near to Thailand, you're near to Singapore you're so much closer when you're right there to go to different countries but you know I have been back in 2012 and I've been back since February of this year and things have become more expensive so I can give you an example of how things have become expensive I lived with an Australian girl when I was out there in 2000 and I caught up with her when I was there in February and she told me there was a group of Irish nurses who are living now in a place called Ranwick which is further in and a lot of the Irish back in 2000 would have been in Bondi Beach and now as they call them as a lot of the English the Australian calls them the Palms are living there and the Irish have to go further north and they were paying I think 5000 and rent and that's between four or five of them because rents have got up quite high because the cities are expensive so if anybody's going out there and thinking all is going to be great you have to be prepared to be able to work or have money coming out with you because rents are dear and when you go out there like for Bondi you're buying an empty apartment you have to buy your furniture usually when people are traveling you have to buy furniture so people need to be kind of aware unless you have people that are already out there and you can go and be with them So there is a change over the last couple of decades then Carmel that maybe it's just not quite the it's not quite the experience it might have been for your generation originally Yeah well like the good part about it is on a night there you can party to about six o'clock in the morning when I came home I was over two I should be in another four hours to party but it is brilliant but you know you do have to work but there is great fun side you meet a lot of different Irish like the Irish all there are all certain Irish bars and stuff like that there so you'll either see a lot of the county jerseys from all the different counties and Ireland What do the Australians think of so many you know obviously there must be are people being displaced are Australians being displaced from their jobs or is there just an abundance of employment there I mean what do you believe in your experience Carmel is Australians attitude to the likes of the English and Irish going over there to live and work Well I worked with a few Australians in my different job back then but they never had any problem with them I remember one of the jobs after I came to Ireland and I was going back into the same company I was in beforehand and I had to answer the phones and once they heard their eyes oh you're from Ireland what party are you from and all those here started having a conversation with me before they were dealing with whatever they were ringing the company for in the first place so there are so many different nationalities you know in Australia from you know all over the world do you have any problem like there is a high level of homelessness in Australia 123,000 people homeless there at the moment is there any do you ever get any sense or of a conversation that you know maybe the accommodation being used by you know people visiting or working over there is displacing those people do you know the same kind of conversations you might hear here at times here well I never had any of those conversations most of the people that I probably would say were mostly Irish people like there was that one girl like she is born Australian but she would never really have said anything I suppose it's like I think you know if you want to work the work is there it's up to you too whether you take that work and the other thing I did notice back then people who wouldn't work in certain jobs in Ireland were working them kind of jobs in Australia because that's the only kind of work they could get yeah okay I get you I understand so Carmel do you think you could go out to Australia say I was 1920 can you go out there and make a life for yourself do you think can you accumulate money could you get on the property ladder or could you work there for a couple of years do you think and land back here with a deposit for your house do you know what I mean I'm kind of sort of trying to get to the motivation as to why someone might leave more long term for that brilliant life experience you had we were saying that some of the people are yeah you need to get the good job but you're still going to be working the same way as you are here things are going up in Australia as well um suppose if you got the right job you probably could but I know like a lot of people went to Paris and they went to the mining and there were plenty of money in that way you know we worked three weeks and then you're out that's hard yeah it's hard work exactly you have to do the hard work otherwise if you're in any of the cities it's going to be expensive so listen you cried leaving Dublin you cried leaving Australia you've seen both sides of it now and you've seen it over a couple of decades with your return visits parking the brilliant life experience becoming more independent you know and growing as an individual just generally life where one might settle um where would you ideally if I could click my fingers like to be uh that's the first question then I'll do a follow-up question dependent on your answer Carmel well uh I would easily live in Australia okay I'm like and I have friends that uh have one I'd say maybe 10 years ago wouldn't they've done like 11 right there so no there's um I had a choice to say right which country would you like to live in I probably even though as much as I love Ireland and um but I would love to live in Australia I wouldn't mind right okay I get you all right that's that's pretty balanced I have no follow but I see the only thing is that I would that's probably would be family and uh I'm a like Donegal supporter as well so I must my dog go home yeah that's it but I suppose as time passes you start following maybe a local team over there or something okay listen Carmel it's a really interesting insight so the grass is greener on the other side would you say so like I do think our young people are are heading off if they're going over there for longer than a year are they heading over for a better life they are getting a better life for yeah you can't get it out there but if you're like when you go out like on the say the two-year visa like a lot of people can get now because if they can work there three months either fruit picking or a farm and they can pick up the second year of visa and stuff I would say definitely I would advise any person to go to travel it's a great experience it's great adventure you'll probably get to do things over there that you won't get a chance to do here um but um you have to work hard for it to inside nothing comes easy in this life does it doesn't matter what country no yeah exactly thanks so much for your insight great to chat to you Carmel and have you any plans to go back soon or have you holiday planned or anything well it's back there in February so yeah I don't feel sorry for you all right Carmel have a lovely day enjoy the rain thank you uh I call this is Greg myself and my husband went to Australia and we did work hard and we sent all our money home and came home to build our home with the plan of being there five years and coming back here to live we built our house in Donegal which is now wait for it full of defective concrete so our our issue is do we walk away and return to Australia or stay in this home that brings nothing but tears to us if I was a life coach I think particularly given your set of circumstances Greg my daughter is currently in Australia she had to do a lot of health and safety courses which she had to pay for before she could begin work then she moved states and had to do them all over again she isn't a good job but she is admitted that with the cost of living and rent she's digging into her savings to live and is not making any huge amounts of money right so this is someone in a good job trained up over there for it but to live digging into the savings she has to be there for two years but has decided that the quality of life in Ireland is better and will return home in December more of those stories I think it's really interesting because we talk around it we talk around it but we don't often talk about it I think it's kind of an interesting conversation I hope it's reflective of what you think out there is that you find it interesting I thought Carmel's insight really was quite fascinating shall I read some of the comments that were put on the post that I put up yesterday just to get a sense of what social media think Mary said it's awful like losing a generation in front of our eyes it's brilliant experience for them and who would honestly blame them when you hear about the working conditions and job flexibility but a huge loss to this country but we're here Mary a different side to it Shirley said just keep saying goodbye to friends kids which means my daughter and her boyfriend will be away soon and I think it's a bit of a rosary worse than now than ever was in Ireland but do we blame them no that's sorry immigration yes Greg nobody talks about it it's a silent master parter another my son spent four years in college getting his degree plenty of companies willing to employ him but not willing to pay decent wage struggling even to pay their rent he'll emigrate eventually and I can't blame him Helen said it's a good experience for them when they emigrate yes people have to emigrate because no work here for them I did this in the 80s I don't regret it now that I'm back nothing has changed here wish I'd never came back I came back with a lot of nursing skills and it's still who you know not what you know awful country to live in another is it any wonder people want to leave this country island does nothing for its own people and the cost of living is absolutely ridiculous if I could I'd be gone tomorrow Roshin said it's very sad but sure what's here for them that's what I'm talking about is there any element where we talk down this great country of ours obviously we have to highlight inequalities gaps but do we do we overdo it do you think is it any way possible that maybe we as the the older generations are sort of talking down the country to the point where we're semi influencing them maybe that's what we want to I don't know as they say brand new conversation I'm not sure what to think very interested in what everybody else out there thinks right okay did you know you know the Nintendo don't you well there's a collective Nintendo and they're taking part there's a tournament coming up in Bunkrana next month really interesting we won this stay where you are we're going to be talking to Helen shortly a public interest message from Dunnegal County Council attention farmers as the silage making season gets under way Dunnegal County Council would like to remind all farmers in the county to check and repair any cracks 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At Bank of Ireland our faster, easier online loan applications help your business take the next step. Search Bank of Ireland business loans. Bank of Ireland. Begin. Lending criteria terms and conditions apply over 18s only. Bank of Ireland is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Alright, you're very welcome back to the programme.  Did you ever game? We're talking about the Nintendo. I had the first Nintendo handheld. Never really got on with it. I didn't like the games. I kind of went down the Sega and then the Sony root. But Helen Daherty, not so much. She loves the Nintendo. I hope anyway. Helen Daherty member of Nintendo. Donegal, good morning. Hey, watchin' why Donegal, Danny. How are you getting on? Oh, I'm a massive Sega fan girl too. There's actually loads of great Sega games on the Switch. Yeah, see, I was one at the Sega Master System, then the Sega Mega Drive and we couldn't afford to say a Dreamcast. Was it not Dream, something like that? Oh, yeah, yeah. I had a Dreamcast. Did you? We couldn't get the Saturn. Yeah, the Saturn's the one. I really wanted the Saturn. Yeah, me too. But anyway, after that, I progressed. I actually started with an Oric computer. What? An Oric. Oric? Oric was called. And you had to, and my sister and friend as to it came with a book, right? And you actually had to programme it. And you could make some version of, you could make some version of Space Invaders. But if there was a power cut, or if you typed one line of code wrong, it didn't work. And in fairness to my sister, God rest her, she typed for hours on end so we could play. But anyway, that was my now, and then kind of PlayStation type of person, never had an Xbox or whatever. So come here, talk to us about Nintendo Donegal. Okay, so Nintendo Donegal is a group for, it was originally like for 3DS players. Now it's more for Switch players. It was founded in 2015 or 16th, I remember. I came on in 2016. I'm pretty sure it was you who I was on with actually. Right. Just chatting about an event we were doing back then which was our first ever event. So we're still going now in 2023. Partly in thanks to a gentleman called Terry because I had to step down at some point and he carried the baton from then. But then during pandemic, I kind of came back and he stood down because he's got lots of commitments. So yeah, essentially, Nintendo Donegal are doing an event in July for the Nintendo Switch owners and we're going to be having a Mario Kart 8 tournament and there's going to be like a huge trophy to win and there's going to be a raffle as well. Both things are free to enter. You will need a controller to take part in the Mario Kart 8 tournament. But if that sounds... Oh yeah, and those under the age of 16 need to be accompanied by a responsible adult. But if that sounds good then, yeah, please come on down. Like I said, it's in the exchange in Bankrana, 8th of July, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. It should be really good. And so yeah, like... And let me ask you, how many do you think might turn up? Because I mean, obviously the Nintendo Switch is hugely popular and Mario Kart is one of the flagship games. I mean, do you have any idea how many people might actually turn up if the stars align, I wonder? Well, you know, it's always like a Pandora's box. You never really know. At the moment, I think there's like 13 or 15 people RSVP'd on the event page. But like, I know the room, I think it can hold like 40 people. So we'll be all right for space. But yeah, just getting the word out. So anyone who's interested is, you know, more than welcome to come along. And like, on the day itself, I'm not going to like have any expectations because it's probably the best not to. And gosh, you know, there could be, you know... Hopefully, it's like 30 or so. You never know. It's something really, really different. So what are the prizes then? As you say, it's free to enter. I mean, listen, the comment out on top, I think that's the actual best prize. If you were able to say you were the champion, let's just call it as it is. Exactly. But is there any other incentives? Well, yeah, the top prize for the Mario Kart 8 tournament is this huge trophy. It's a Mario Kart... It's one of the trophies that you can get in the game, but obviously it's a physical version. And I don't think we'll be having, like, a second prize for that. But like, for the RAPOR we'll be having lots of, like, little plushies, which can be one. There could be, like, maybe some chocolates and stuff like that. All right, OK. So get on to the Nintendo-Donagol Facebook page. I think you'll have people of all ages taking part. I hope so. It's going to be great fun. It's in the Exchange Castle Avenue in Bon Crana, and it is on July 8th, and it runs between... What time did you say there? I have them here in front of me. I don't. 2-4pm. There's a raffle also on the day. Sorry, sorry. It was 2-4. Sorry, I made a mistake earlier. It was 2-6. So I'm really sorry to everyone, but Brexit is 2-4. You're all right, Helen. Come here. No one's dead. You're all right. It's OK. 2-4pm. I don't want anyone turning up on 4, and then, like... Oh, yeah. Obviously, I made a mistake. OK. So it's 2-4. Thank you for correcting me, though. No problem. And you need a switch controller with you. Yes. I do need to bring your switch as well, because there'll be other people, like, to play, like, switch games, like, you know, when you aren't taking part. Yeah, exactly. Do you guys accept the Nintendo switch? I used to play steam games on my PC. Right. Do you have a steam... Oh, no, a PlayStation. I told you, I'm incredibly... Oh, it was PlayStation. I'm incredibly brand loyal, Helen. I'm incredibly... Are you PlayStation 5? Yeah, I am, yeah. I am. Oh, nice. 3-4-5. I started with the small one. What was the first PlayStation then? No, I think it's the fourth incarnation of it. Yeah, but I went from Sega to PlayStation, and that's it. It's just brilliant. If you want to switch this day, if you want to switch off, not in the summer, but certainly in the winter, I'll bang on Call of Duty or something, and just chill out. Nice. Yeah, all right. Or I could beat you at FIFA, Helen. No problem at all. Yeah, you could, honestly. I do like playing FIFA, but I'm also...   US what? UFC. It's a fight game. I am. UFC. It's a fighting game. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say. Mario Kart. All right, well, I'll have a go at Mario Kart. Listen, Helen, Lovely to chat to you. Great to see you're back involved. Thank you. If I pick you up correctly with Nintendo, Donagall, and we'll chat again in the future. Best luck with that event. People are going to have a lot of fun. Of all ages, I would imagine, and it's going to be a few rage quitters, maybe even, okay? Thanks, Helen. Take care. Bye. Lovely to chat. Yeah, right. If you're interested in that, go to Nintendo, Donagall. It's on Facebook, and you can register your interest to take part in that. Mario Kart 8 competition, and it is in the exchange Castle Avenue in Boncran. It runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Something different on Sunday if you've got young people listening with you because they might be off school now. Listen, it's specialist. It's niche, but if we give them a wee leg up, then it's all the worthwhile for me. Greg, it's obvious what the insurance companies are doing. They came under scrutiny for the charges of car insurance, which they reduced after they were warned, so now they're going to put it in on house insurance to recoup their money. I think we'd all accept that if building costs have increased, insurance is going to have to increase, but some of the messages we're getting from listeners, the increases are doubling more, in fact, in some cases. I've been with the same insurance company for years. Last year, it was 4.30. This year, it was 8.01, and according to them, that was with a discount of €764 for being a loyal customer. So I shopped around and I got the exact same insurance as my original one for, wait for it, 4.30 last year. They bumped it up to 8.01. Said they'd knocked off 764 for them being a loyal customer. This listener shopped around, what are they paying this year? €30 less than last year. They've got it for €400, so they've saved €30, and it's a two-finger salute for the gougers. Many of these secondary schools are semi-private, and therefore they can apply a levy, kind of like school fees. Some schools refer to it as a voluntary contribution. That's for different schools, and it is voluntary. So the levy is, are we saying then the levy is obligatory? OK, now these are schools that are part of the ETB, so there's mandatory parental payments to certain schools. I didn't know that, if that's the case. Does anyone believe that desperate people trapped in a submarine are calmly waiting to tap on the sides every 30 minutes? I reckon they're battering the living daylights out of the cell. But that would be point, you see, because there would be certain things that would be appropriate to do. Firstly, they have limited oxygen. And it's not even the limited oxygen. It's the carbon dioxide that they themselves are expelling. So if they were banging, like you suggest here, that would be really counterintuitive. And there are at least one expert down there. There's another person that went down the Titanic in 87, I believe. So they would know that panicking is not going to save them. If they bang all of the time, that noise could be presumably confused with, that could be something confused with just regular background noise. So the intimate tapping would make sense. Alright, we're going to get further reaction now to the news that the ATU is to hopefully have a veterinary school. 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This has been a call from Dr Gerard Rorty who I presume, Gerard, I presume you very much welcome this news and we heard from the head of the ATU earlier on that they would hope with everything happening as it should to be able to be taking in students late September, sorry, in September late 2025. This is fantastic news, absolutely fantastic news. I mean, also the veterinary working group have been working on lobbying for the last 10 years to try and achieve a situation where you don't have kids going out to Eastern Europe to try and study veterinary. Never in our wildest dreams could we have anticipated that we would get what we were looking for which was the capacity to produce our own vets. So nationally and as a vet, I totally welcome it. But as a Donnie Goldman, this is absolutely incredible. I listened to Dr Orla Flanelli. She was brilliant and she was really, really good. But, you know, people, the average person, the average punter out there doesn't actually realize this is like Donnie Goldman on the All-Earland. We have moved from being sort of like fun harps playing in the League of Ireland to now having a university that's a Champions League because a veterinary faculty is probably the hardest faculty to run and deliver for any university. So such a vote of confidence to realize now that in our own doorstep we're going to have a veterinary faculty. The next step now is we need our dental faculty, medical faculty. We need to stand back and look. And as Dr Orla Flanelli pointed out, we suffer economically without the university. We suffered because Derry didn't get the university in the 60s and that's the reason the median income and Donnie Gold is only half of that and Don Leary wrapped down. That's the reason that the income west of the ban on Northern Ireland is a total disaster because Derry doesn't have university and unfortunately the politics in there, they're not going to get the places. And the sad thing is with health care, when health care sciences moved from Corrine to Derry, what happened? Stormont actually halved the amount of training places. So for the average person out there that don't actually realize what this means and this is what I've got to get across, this is actually the day now when Donnie Gold, Atlantic Technological University, takes its place with the Bristol, the Edinburgh, the Cambridges of the Oxford. That's an incredible thing for Donnie Gold. Wow, okay. And I'm trying to reflect on our last conversation, Dr. Rorty. I seem to remember frustration, a lack of common sense. Is that a correct characterization of how you were feeling and is this why there is such a relief and welcome of this announcement today? Oh, we are absolutely over the moon and listen, I have zero political ties one way or the other, but the reality is the Minister for Agriculture delivered this. He delivered it nationally. He delivered it locally. He listened to us. He listened to the farm and bodies. He was in the cabinet. He fought and he fought particularly for Donnie Gold. It was fascinating because I talked to the guys in Limerick and the guys in Waterford and this is your man and Donnie Gold says that if letter can he doesn't get a vet school. Nobody's getting a vet school. And I mean it's absolutely fantastic because geographically now it totally makes sense. Waterford has won, Dublin has won, Letter Kenny House won. And the reality is the future for education and third level education for the whole north and northwest is going to be based out of Letter Kenny to compensate, as I said, for the inadequacy that we have in Northern Ireland. So I mean we reflect back on the late Donna Humali and the late Neil T. Blaney that bought the regional college originally to Letter Kenny and the vision that they have. And as I said, we're followed up with the Minister for Agriculture now delivering this absolutely platinum gold star course to come to the town. I'll put the same question to you as I did, Dr Flynn. Do you think we'll see less people now feel they have to go to the likes of Poland to continue their studies? And do you think we'll see more people going, right, okay, this is a career option for me now that I can do it here in this locality or that locality? Of course we will because that's the reason we in the lobbying group have been lobbying for 10 years is to stop kids having to go out to Eastern Europe. But more importantly, and this is really important for Donegal, I mean the costs have gone down to Dublin to train in UCD vet school is phenomenal. Thank God costs in Donegal are an awful lot less. So we're going to be producing an awful lot more vets locally but the knock-on effect and I think this has to be emphasised is the world is the oyster now for ATU. I definitely think the next thing we need to look at is a medical faculty and a dental faculty. I mean something I haven't said in the show before saying it over and over again. The World Health Organization says that it's a moral and unethical to do what we do and let our Kenny General hospital. So just run that past you again. World Health Organization says it's a moral and unethical to be poaching doctors that are foreign trained from their countries that need them. So we're sitting in the western developed world we are only after Israel as a country that steals doctors from developing countries. And they're taking in 40%. Pakistan needs 200,000 doctors. They're fantastic doctors. It's great that they would come to train here and go back to their own countries. But that's not the model Ireland is working on. I have put that. I can't remember exactly who I put it to but it was someone certainly either high-open medicine or politics. And I did say should we not feel guilty for poaching doctors from these countries. And I think it was particularly African countries that analogy or that question, sorry. And they stated no, they've a surplus and we shouldn't feel bad about it. No, they most certainly don't have a surplus. All you've got to do is go to Dr. Google and he'll tell you straight away the massive shortages in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Pakistan and the whole way through the developing world because what happens is countries like Ireland 42% of our doctors at the moment are foreign trained. Now I'm not for the moment criticising the quality and the calibre. I think we should continue to bring them over here to train them and to send them back. But our model at the moment now we've got the veterinary thing solved and thank God I think with the dental problem solved as well to welcome the new dental school going into the Royal College in Dublin because we have a massive shortage of dentists as well. And thank God we're sheltered from that in Donegal because we have access to dairy where there isn't a shortage of dentists but I occasionally do a locum around Dublin where there's a three, four, six month wait list and a lot of my colleagues practice this and they can't get in to see a dentist. So the new dental school is going to help solve that but no, all you've got to do is to say go back to Dr. Google, put in WHO put in unethical immoral and you have loads and loads of articles saying what we do taken 42, dependent on 42% of our doctors more see. So where do we go now in Lederkenny? Lederkenny now needs to push on and let's do a dental faculty and a medical faculty for the Northwest and based out of Lederkenny. Let me put it to you, Dr. Roti. There are also, whilst our students are still in college, other countries trying to post are newly qualified professionals. Do you think that there is any argument for some sort of a provision whereby people are almost obliged to work here for a year? I totally agree. So there's a great analogy for example where I've worked in South Africa, they are whereby you're committed to give a handful of years back. So I definitely think if you stand back and look at it, say if you think you train as a vet, train as a dentist, train as a doctor, you have been handed 300 to 400,000 by your economy in that training. So there's an argument that you have golden handcuffs and what you say is those people have to give the NHS, NHS users in England, training physiotherapists, radiographers that you've got to give two or three years back. So what I've shown is that 80% of people tend to say within a 20 mile radius of where they trained. So invariably if we're training doctors, dentists, vets and let her come in, a very high proportion might decide to go abroad and that's no bad thing. I've travelled the world of work in Australasia, North America, Africa but the vast majority people do eventually come home if they're from that area and it's a great proposal, the idea that if you're going to go and be handed half a million or 400,000 train as a doctor you'll get three or four years back in the area that you've actually qualified but also you've got to actually start training sufficient numbers. Exactly, so as you say a percentage we'll always hang about. Okay, what a welcome to it in educational terms or even beyond that. It's, yeah and as I say people probably don't actually realise I think right, 40 places, what's the impact of 40 places in the economy and done it all. It's not just that it's the fact that it's a veterinary faculty so as I said it shows that the people, the powers that be in education are sent to the ATU. We have such confidence in the U that you can run the most difficult course that there is to run. So we're not looking at you as just a body that's going to train, for example it's fantastic and it's great and ATU do that very well but what the Department of Education and Further Education are saying to ATU in this we have such confidence in you that we acknowledge that you're capable of running any course under the sun. Now in terms of the impact for the economy not only do you then start to have produce students but you've got research you start to, you know the economy will grow on the back of this and go back to something that people don't realise. People complain about the A5 even say, you know the A5 impacts on us but people don't realise the absence of a major university in Derry has had a serious detrimental economic impact on Donegal and now today we've an announcement that ATU has acknowledged as having the potential to be a world leader in education so the impact for Donegal or an economy is phenomenal. And I appreciate that because what you're saying there because what we are trying to do on this program is trying to talk about how we get to a better place rather than always talking about where we are and it's been brilliant to have your insight into that. Dr Gerard Rorty I know you're incredibly so we appreciate your time. Thanks so much. Brilliant, talk soon. Alright, take Kerslan, I've got some Ajean why. Okay, right so you heard that's big news. Now Mike if you're not interested in that stuff you might not feel it but obviously Gerard given his skill sets realises that it's big news Greg my son and his wife and three children left Donegal just before Covid they are all in Australia, they love it they came back after Covid and sold their home here and no intention of coming back I miss and love them but I'd never hold them back. The plus for me is they often send me random tickets and tell me to fly over for three weeks at a time and I think it makes our time together all the more special. That's lovely and that's worked for you Um, right I have a sister living in Canada she's loving it out there a very expensive place to live but a salary covers it in Ireland she was waiting to have an operation for three years when she went to Canada she had it done in three weeks Ireland is finished when it comes to healthcare for the working classes no wonder young people are going away is that what they're considering though but anyway listen my partner wants me I'll come Mike I'll read it now my partner wants me to pack up and go to Australia I'm 33 and we have three kids the wages here are just enough to survive and it's getting tougher by the week it's almost impossible for the younger generation to get their own home in this country just fear taking kids away from family and taking the gamble of leaving has anyone else been in a similar position that's a very good question for you the partner mad to move to Australia they're only in the early 30s and the three children with them 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Okay you're very welcome back to the program now wellness Wednesday we're going to talk about a new Irish business which is helping to take the stress out of funeral arrangements by bringing old saying goes there's only two guarantees in life death and taxes neither are great fun let's be honest about that right on your toffee is manager of my farewell wishes good morning to you thanks for joining us and also in studio with me is Sean Murphy of initial funeral services hi Sean thank you right I think often presenters when they start talking about death planning your death funerals the default position is is we're not really good at talking about death do you think that's the case or do we really are so busy with life that we just don't have time to talk about death I think it can often depend on the age of the person younger people I'm including myself in that but younger people don't mean Sean I think we're no chance to say me just because I went to school with him but yeah I think people of our age don't necessarily want to talk about it because it feels like it's so far in the future for us yet our parents are often people who who want to talk about that who are organized and who want to make their wishes known and just plan ahead but in other areas of life like say for instance organ donation right you know we're challenged to just think about that regardless of what age we are because we you know life is fleeting and we never know what might happen or even preparing a will but we're not great at either of that always so maybe we aren't really too prepared to sort of contemplate our passing it can be a tough subject to think about and as you said it's it's something that's guaranteed to happen to all of us but we like to think that we'll we'll go off in our sleep when we're well into our 80s and that we you know we don't want to have to think about something like that yeah okay what's your view Sean yeah I think it's a great idea which what this my farewell wishes is you see a lot of Hanlon's with families what what did mommy want and flesh you can have your wishes there and writing and it's a lot easier for the funeral director on my behalf that we know what they want yeah whereas you can have different scenarios families have no we belong to they want to know what their wishes are going to be carried forward I think it's a way forward yeah because in that moment you know if there's a number of siblings people have their own different relationships people have their own way of grieving and people have their own interpretation of the wishes of a deceased person yes that's correct yeah a lot of a lot of different scenarios you could have a family with maybe somebody with special needs and the family has nobody else to look after their wishes and they know when their time's gone that there'll be somebody to look after their siblings as well as everything else yeah and it settles and as you say there's no end to scenarios no one could be a partner their view could be at odds with a brother or sister or mom exactly and I don't think any of us would want to leave back behind us that uncertainty when people are in the throes of grief at the same time as well right tell us how this works then Anja so my farewell wishes was set up we started looking into this two years ago there was a UK based company in the Irish market that was more towards pre-paying for the funeral but after Brexit they pulled out of the Irish market they still will honour plans that have been taken out on new customers so I actually work for a funeral director ourselves and we have a service company where we provide different consultancy services to funeral directors and several of them came to us and asked us what can we do now, where can we go was there anything else so we decided to investigate setting this up so it took two years to investigate and to set up and 100,000 euros worth of investment in legal fees etc just to set up the trust fund so my farewell wishes works we want to focus though on the wishes rather than the payment because that's really where we think a lot of people are more interested and you know they have this country is a little bit more complicated like someone might have a credit union loan for an example and I think most credit unions have you know they have some contribution to whatever I'm just trying to give examples I think just this market I don't know if we're really prepared for those maybe that's what your research found certain people now would like to put away some money towards it but we definitely found that the wishes was what was more important to people making sure that their wishes were carried out and to take some of the burden off their families when the time comes there's pre-plan and then there's at need when someone has passed away and we estimate that in the first meeting with the funeral director there can be up to 50 questions and John would agree with that and then what this does is post someone's passing rather than two other parties that might have different points of use there's a third voice in there and that is the voice of the deceased now obviously these wishes are presumed aren't legally binding but they're part of that conversation now even after they're passing which I think is really critical in resolving any not necessarily conflict but any disagreement or conflict of opinion that's it and it just makes it a little bit easier for people as well for a family if they didn't know what mommy or daddy would have wanted well at least it's written down here because most people organise in the funeral their main goal is to just make sure that it's what they would have wanted so at least if you know what they wanted it just takes a wee bit of that burden off them I presume for the most part there are different types of people there are people that maybe just throw all of the what normally happens, what do you think we should do and I hate to use the word routine but you know what I mean there is a format there and then you will meet then you'll engage with others who've got that's completely thrown out they've got their whole idea and they expect you to be able to sort of comply with and make sure that kind of stuff happens yeah that's correct yeah you could find different scenarios and someone can be very challenging but as I say again if that's all wrote down and set in stone it's a lot easier for us to organise funerals and I think there's a better way forward right so how does it work then say it was I, I was going to engage with the service so who do I meet you do I meet Sean? You can meet either you can get in touch with Sean or ourselves we will find then a funeral director in your local area and we will give you the form we have worked for a long time on the full form is that there is it oh for now you're going to hand me just as we were going on there but we were short on time but go ahead my boss would often say when he's talking about it there was blood sweat and tears and all the tears were mine we wrote and we rewrote the form so many times just to try and educate people about their options and what's available some people as you say and especially if you don't know what a person wanted or if you don't have much time as is in the case of Irish funerals you tend to go with the default the familiar but if someone wants something different then they can read through all their options of everything that can be done you know so typically is it is it whether someone wants to be buried or cremated is it whether they want to be buried beside which partner or whatever it might be do you know what I mean like is that the kind of stuff the questions that are in there what else are typical tough questions we would ask that the bigger questions first the main questions so burial or cremation ceremony or no ceremony sorry yeah the main questions like that and then we go into that you can go right down into the nitty gritty of what you'd like to have done with your ashes if you'd like to leave mementos of a fingerprint impression some people have told us I've written their own eulogies some people have specified what they'd like to have done with their ashes after cremation there was one lady who would like them scattered while a certain song is playing you know you can you can get more creative ahead of time rather than just falling back on default I like this personal wishes thing I don't want to pick it out in case it frames it because there's a lot of details in there but it's down to flowers would you like people to send flowers would you like to choose the exact type of coffin so do I choose it now or let my family decide would I like a funeral notice on because some people are more private than others aren't they even where would you like to be published would you like a photo to be used would do you want symbols of any hobbies or interests that you would like to have incorporated into your funeral we do that but for some people then we're going well that's not exactly the kind of send off that I would like would you like it live streamed like it really gets in now I'm literally just on one page here it really gets into it this is a full review of what someone might want yeah we have two different options than a forms I'd say I think you're looking at the long form there and we have some very studious sometimes people then I'll get the short form yeah sometimes people think that's that's too many questions and it can be overwhelming so we created the short form for people who just want to record their basic wishes or who want to have a meeting with the funeral director quite a bit in there as well okay so it's as deep because the long form goes into things like whether you want bagpipes or release of doves or something that looks like them do you know what I mean that type of stuff the short form is more the the probably the the key questions so then I fill this all out with you or an undertaker whichever you want it's up to you and then we do two different services so the registration of wishes is 65 euros the charge for that and we keep your wishes on our database we'll send you a copy you nominate a representative so that's the person that you expect will be organising your funeral and a funeral director if you'd like to nominate one and each of those will get a copy of your wishes then if you want to pay towards the cost of your funeral we have a trust fund and we are we're still actively signing up funeral directors in Donegal we have four different partners at the minute in Donegal so you can pay towards the cost of your funeral if you wish and that's whatever amount how is this being received because maybe traditionalists might think well that's not really they kind of like that I mean not I like it but they like maybe that maybe that first conversation going through this they feel that's part of the connection that they have are you getting that or you know I mean obviously you're still signing undertakers but what kind of feedback are you getting from them the feedback is great actually because you can still you know it's not like a John would agree with that you don't just go here's the form I know what's happening you know if undertakers have a great way yeah with people and they still sit down and they'll have the form in front of them and they'll be able to go through and say well it says here that it's guidance and it's real strong guidance isn't it because it's the person's words themselves and their wishes I hate to be negative right but it's just the type of question that jumps into my mind I wish you every success with this okay but let's just say for instance I fill it out and live for another 25 years but you decide you want to wind down the company what happens in that regard of any sort of of any contingency for that well the wishes are registered with you know yourself your representative and your funeral director will always have a copy of that and even in the case that the funeral director may go wonder we've written all that into the terms and conditions can't believe she just I cannot believe she just said the funeral director might go under it but anyway oh there are endless jokes in this don't put me off so we've written all that into the terms and conditions for all those we've tried to think of every possibility that might happen so that everyone will still have a copy of your wishes if you have paid towards the cost of your funeral that is held by a trust fund exactly which is great now you see this is not and I think you kind of maybe mentioned this a little earlier on Anya say for instance someone's in the 30s or 40s or 50s you know this is