They'll be back with you Monday morning the 9 till noon show coming up for you very very shortly our Friday panel about to join us but first let's get a news update and it's over to Michaela Clark. Thanks Greg good morning serious questions are being raised as it's emerged the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service was tasked to Donegal on 93 occasions last year. Ladies figures from Donegal County Council revealed that the Donegal Fire Service was mobilised 935 times during 2022 and dealt with a total of 827 incidents. Cancer Martin McDermott is seeking clarity however as to what has led to the high volume of calls being responded to by the North's Fire Service. He says if a lack of resources in the county is to blame then urgent action is needed. It's something that we really need a very very quick answer on because what we're depending on here is life and death. In those situations there can't be anything left not dealt with and this is one of those situations where I think that we need an answer extremely quickly we need to know exactly why the Northern Ireland Fire Service has been called to facilitate our service so many times whether it's a gap or whether we need more services I think that needs to be determined and it needs to be sorted out very very quickly. Stanna Shellowice warning remains in place in Donegal until midday. While snowfall was less than expected icy conditions have led to hazardous driving conditions motorists are urged to take care on the roads. A woman has been injured after being assaulted at a residence in Bondorn last night. Investigations into the attack on the woman in her 30s which occurred at around half past 11 are continuing. The woman was taken to hospital for treatment to what have been described as non life threatening injuries. A woman in her 30s was later arrested and is due to appear in court this morning. The public expenditure minister says coalition TDs will stick together when it comes to the ending of the eviction ban. There have been reports of lingering divisions within government as some expressed concerns over the plan to phase out the ban. The T shock said yesterday that even if there's a rise in homelessness as a result it will not be a reintroduced. Minister Pascal Donahue says extending the ban every few months will be negative in the long term. While it's a tough decision to make I'm more acutely aware of the consequences that can have and those who are affected by the decision. They are at the forefront of my mind. The view that I came to is that if we're in a situation where we extend a moratorium like this quarter by quarter by quarter ultimately we will end up with less rental accommodation in our country in the time ahead. Whether I had called on dry day with sunny spells there will be isolated shards of rain and sleet this afternoon and evening with highest temperatures of 4 to 6 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning. Hello good morning three and a half minutes past nine this Friday the 10th of March 2023 how are you getting on? You're very welcome along to another edition of the 9 till noon show and it is a Friday which means very shortly I'll introduce to you our Friday panel and we'll get the reviews on some of the big stories of the week and we want you involved in that conversation as well of course 07491 25,000 is the number to call Caroline taking your calls today. You can WhatsApp and text the show as well 08 660 25,000 and if you prefer to watch the program get straight on to our YouTube channel Highland Radio Ireland you can watch me smart TV fire stick or an app same with Facebook and it's on your tablets and all that kind of stuff as well. All right so there's no excuse not to digest us one way or the other all right let's introduce that panel to you first of all Catherine noon lawyer and former finnegale senator good morning Catherine how are you? Good morning. Great to have you back on the program we also have Aiman McGee former Intercanti footballer and columnist good morning Aiman. Morning Greg how are you? Very good thanks very much Aiman and last but not least Brendan Byrne who's currently the CEO of the Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association Brendan how are you getting on? Not too bad Greg and good morning. Great to see you great to hear from you as well okay let's start with news that T Shockley of Radcar said the government is not for turning on its decision to lift the eviction ban even if there's a massive increase in homelessness in the coming months he said an extension of the moratorium would not solve the problem and instead the government would look to other solutions if there's a massive increase in homelessness he said then we have to figure out the best way to reverse that the government decision to end the ban on evictions will be the subject of a dull vote on Wednesday the 22nd of March after St Patrick's Day because they're on their holly bobs now. Sinn Féin housing spokesperson Ohno Brin confirmed this afternoon that his party will have a private members motion debating the previous day or debated demanding that the government reverse his decision it's a hot political topic I think this break for St Patrick's Day is a welcome rest bite though I doubt it's going to be let go and I don't know the government's in kind of a catch 22 damned if it does and damned if it doesn't so this is obviously fantastic for the opposition because they can get their teeth into them whichever which way Catherine Noon government right to lift this eviction ban even in the knowledge and acceptance that it is going to leave all different types of people without a roof over their heads it's a very very difficult one I mean I think the government have really struggled with the decision to but but but they appear to have made a decision that is the one that most experts in the property area would agree with that really having the eviction ban in place hasn't massively improved the situation there are those who would say that it would have been worse if it hadn't been in place but really the overall situation between landlords and tenants it's very broken in the country as is the whole property situation as we all know I mean we're talking about a day in day out there are improvements being made but it's hard to see them because I suppose there have been a lot of external factors that have come into play including the situation in Ukraine and our welcome of Ukraine Catherine I'm not a I'm not obviously clearly not an expert okay but the eviction ban has been in place it does mean that people have not been thrown out onto the streets but in the interim we've kind of done nothing to prepare for the inevitable end of the eviction ban for instance one of the biggest complaints landlord seems to have is high rate of tax in other European countries it's down around seven eight nine percent here it's over 50 51 percent you know do a bit of work in that regard or something do you know what I mean it feels like nothing has been happening for half a year we bought ourselves some time and we're still at at the same point we were at the beginning and the point that you make is totally valid and it's a point that I've been hearing on many of the discussions on this issue in the last few days from property experts and you know representatives of landlords and they have been making that case for years and I'm an accidental landlord myself and you know it really it's kind of it is a pension for when for when you're older but on a day-to-day basis if you were very calculating and clever about what you do with your money being a landlord is not a good idea you know and tax wise there are no there are no breaks does it depend what you want for it because it seems that a lot of the vox pops that you hear landlords are upset they have to pay towards their mortgage do you know what I mean if this is your pension is it not and when I say this is your I don't mean yours right I'm speaking in general I mean you know you're expected to contribute to it yourself a lot of what I'm hearing is people are upset that now they're having to put two or three hundred euro a month towards their it's their property but then I also understand that the way things are going they feel they've got no control over that property that you know that can they liquidate it ever if they wanted to so I do see both sides well it's it's two edge and I think that's very fair comment from you I mean at the end of the day it's not so much paying towards the market it's the overall picture when it comes to tax you know so if somebody earns minimum wage or medium wages say and they're a landlord they're taxed on their income and they don't get any breaks for the mortgage being in existence so it's it's not as simple as them not wanting to pay towards their mortgage although that is a way to look at it but I mean you know I'm not here to defend landlords but I mean there is a perception I mean I heard somebody on the radio this morning talking about how the word landlord really would need to change because in a way if the word in itself makes it seem like they're somehow superior to tenants the dirty words now there's no doubt about it you know and it's like in the same category as developers and lawyers and politicians of which I you know I'm taking a lot of boxes but um but you know I just want to say at this point that Catherine's a landlord a lawyer and a former but yeah so you know I'm triples gum at the earth or whatever but you know at the end of the day there's so much negative press around that I mean at the end of the day it's individuals who a lot of the time we have we have obviously massive corporate landlords but we can't expect landlords to fix the property crisis the t-shirt and you're right go back to your point about policy we have had time to implement policy that would make it more advantageous and you wouldn't have as many landlords fleeing the market so and that's an actual fact based based on statistics that I've been reading and listening to over the last week or more that you know there's been very intense conversation around this so you know it's it's as you say it's a fundamental issue of policy when it comes to landlords and I think that we have been in a way a little populist in how we have the government has been in a way a little bit um populist in how they have responded to the the the wishes of or the the lobbying of uh those who represent landlords and those who are in who have property because um the perception is that because you're a landlord you're somehow you know so much better off but that's not the reality you know not all the time okay amen uh what what do you think I mean what what's your views on all of this I think you started off there is it is it the right thing to do and I think we have to stop looking at at that in terms of what's right and what's wrong um for me look look at it's we're bound by the markets in reality we have to accept that you know we we've limited control over in terms of how we react to things and what provisions and what measures we put in but at the end of the day we're bound by the markets and you know I think ultimately the the thing is broken I think that um we're we're reacting rather than you you know being operate from the foot front foot and you know it's I don't have the answers I'm not knowledgeable enough well what no I'm confused is me amen is if I were the government's one of their advisors who a job I would never take on but I'm sure there are many many of them I would say right if we're going to come with this we have to come with something else we have to come with something for the landlords we have to come for something with the renters you know you would not simply in that allow announce a an end to this eviction ban you'd want to say right we recognize the challenges with landlords so we're going to look at the taxation element of things or you know and give something to all parties it wouldn't make it all go away but it would be far easier to go on radio shows when you're when you choose to do so and answer questions because you'd be seen to be actually recognizing the challenges you would be seen what what what I also and I recognize what Catherine is saying there in terms of we shouldn't demonize the the landlord and that seems to be the way the way things are going and it's this nearly not nasty word um but it's very it's very very hard when a large percentage of TDs are landlords and they're operating from that mindset um and maybe it helps in a way but it but it it definitely doesn't help for the for the for the optics of the situation in terms of how they how they go about addressing the situation and the truth is is that you know if we were to open the phone lines here now and invite landlords to come on and fight their corner they wouldn't because as soon as you'd put your head above the parapet it would be knocked off or someone would say in the street I'll hurt you on Highland do you think this that and the other that is sort of the dirty space not literally is but the landlords probably feel they're in or are some people see them in exactly exactly if you're going out for a few pints of the weekend you know you just you wouldn't admit that you're you're a landlord you're just keep the head keep the head down for uh would you admit your opposition first or a landlord first you would admit you're neither of them I'm joking Catherine I'm joking but no but just aim and just on your point there I mean it's it's it's not as simple as to say that because TDs sometimes own property like you could say the same about TDs being farmers or TDs TDs being close to fishery or you know it's it's not quite as simple with with respect to say that because if if TDs were having the weight of influence on the landlord space then the policies would be in places that are really favorable to landlords but if you've got a ministerial if you've got a ministerial table and a third of them have a dog in the race at least you know it whatever what are the right the reality the perception is not fantastic and you know you could also say well you could also say well there's not much it doesn't seem to be much happening to fix the health service but then I would say a lot of politicians of private health insurance you know the heads of the HSE don't trust the health service they have got their own pride so a lot of it's about perception of what to do with the with the optics of the situation and in terms of like wouldn't it when they have a dog on the race as as Greg said because it's very easy for people sorry go on they're not having the influence on you know so if we go back to the salient point that's being made which is that TDs are you know some of them are landlords you know well you know they haven't they haven't actually affected massive change in favor of landlords so it kind of lies it's kind of yeah but I mean like the situation is so bad for landlords that the amount of TDs that landlords have gone down from like about 38 to 26 or 7 and now all of a sudden we're doing things to try and make sure we don't lose any more landlords but as I say it's probably perception and optics I'm chomping at the bit here to get Brendan in Brendan come on all right so what they say but no it's not no it's lovely it's brilliant I just want to sort it all out for us the first thing I would have to say as a result of the change in the eviction ban there's 3000 families potentially that would be either listening to this or around the country that are fearful of their future but there's also 11 and a half thousand people of of this country already homeless we have an incredibly broken system and we have gone from a country in the nought east that could build 60,000 houses a year to a country that can't build any houses now and when you have a system that's incredibly broken like what we have then radical decisions have to be made now the eviction ban in Fern is is a matter of serious concern for those that are renting we appreciate that now we also have to be mindful that the eviction ban was a temporary arrangement and that's at most that it could be now there are those that are trying to reinvent the reason why it was put in in the belief that in the three to five months that it was there that we could somehow solve the housing crisis we are now in a housing crisis that will be with us for the next five to ten years that's the reality and what I'm very disappointed about is how the government are not using the two kits that are available to them to develop to to accelerate the rate of house and provision you know much as one of much your homes okay go ahead yep I was going to look for examples yeah and I was watching the debate last night on question time in the UK they are years ahead of us and what they're going to provide in modular homes here we are with a deficit of 200,000 houses thinking that we're going to deliver that to conventional means of developer led maybe local authority led we're we're fooling ourselves and yet if you look at the toolkit that I was on a local authority you have emergency powers that invest with the county managers for accommodation provision usually it's used for travel accommodation there's nothing preventing that to be used for ordinary accommodation and we have a government that's still funneling all their energy to conventional build build build you will not get the rate of build through conventional means to to tackle this housing problem and the debate you know if you look at it I in preparation for this here today I watched the Taoiseach on the the oil and Tuesday the tonnage yesterday and we're not in the right space for debate here you know we are a country that is a crisis you know in the 80s we lost our young people because there's no jobs we're losing our people now and they're emigrating to other countries because there's no housing we need to have a fundamental debate and it needs to be treated as national emergency yeah so in other words what what you're saying is is that almost a cross party acceptance of the situation and that this is not about what you're doing in government now what we might do if we're in government but treated as an actual emergency like we saw with the the the emergency in health for example is that what you're saying Brandon? Exactly and when I did an assessment from an apolitical basis of the debate on Tuesday and Wednesday in thought I was very disillusioned because the government are doing what governments do the opposition are doing what opposition do meanwhile the problem is there and the problem is getting very bad and it's getting worse by the day and until we get into a space in a mindset that this is going to take extraordinary measures in order to deal with the crisis it's not going to get any better and I agree with you because you know like there's always gone to be an element of the population that will experience travel logo work abroad but I'm sick and tired of seeing mums and dads saying tearful goodbyes that they don't want to on social media but they're having to and they're having to advise their children to leave because they believe that's how they have they have the the best options amen I mean Brandon's hitting a very important point there isn't it you know it's not just which is incredibly important the 12,000 homeless and the many more that account surfers and all that but aren't caught in the figures it's really the state of the country as a whole yeah and I get that I actually had this conversation at the weekend about you know people we've seemed to out the back of the last major recession we lost a generation and we seem to be heading that route again you know there's a lot of people heading away and housing is probably a big issue amongst young people that are heading away and there's a lot of options do we talk about changing the culture in terms of where house ownership is seen as you know there's a lot of places on the continent that you know rental is accepted but in that but you see the thing I think when we discuss that amen not you and I but the country does then you have to say right that's fine but then what do we do when people hit retirement or get to a certain age you know how will they will they be able to afford to continue to pay rent and you know like if we're gonna and I agree with you but we we should be having conversations rather than just being reactive be proactive in terms of you know do we have to change the culture here do we what do we need to in terms of modular homes in terms of whatever now we we we have to reframe the argument because if we keep hitting our head off the wall here like we're failing on health because we just keep going around circles we're failing housing because we keep going around the circles so we need to kind of step off the track here and re reframe the argument reframe the terms of how we look at it yeah but it's kind of depressing that isn't it Catherine I mean you know you were in your time in politics I mean obviously you can there's certain things you can influence and we can sort of mess around the ends and all that but the big fundamental problems that have been hit on by Brendan the name in there I don't see any pathway to a resolution really because I don't know if our political system is set up in a way to effect meaningful change and that's quite that's quite a potentially deep conversation about how how our political system is set up you know how we have proportional representation so you know there there is a need for politicians to sometimes be all things to all people so that they remain in a job and you know you can get into a very deep argument about that but I want to go back to something about that that Brendan said about you know and I'm very impressed with the way Brendan approached his thinking on this and how he studied it during the week and the conclusions that he's come to because with slantia care in the health area there's an effort there for it to be cross-party and I was actually as it happens at an event on a property business kind of thing last night in Dublin and the one thing that a man contributed to the conversation who's been in the business for 50 years was that there needs to be a cross-party approach to this and the punch and duty stuff you know it really gets nobody anywhere only it kind of maybe gets people more upset about it than they are already you know so I mean as you said quite rightly Greg you know the opposition do what the opposition do and the government do what the government do and that's the system so you know it's really to move above that and to realize that in a way this needs to be approached like nearly wartime you know an emergency response that and and there are efforts being made that are you know significant but I think the way it plays out on the national airways sometime it's counterproductive you know yeah Brendan what's lacking as I see it is political leadership on this issue we're going to have to in terms of this problem and it's unprecedented in scale you know when do we ever think we have a housing crisis of potentially 200,000 houses needed and if we're going to stay on the trajectory that we are which is conventional means of delivery it's not going to happen and I can't understand why the minister and minister Daryl Ryan hasn't pushed harder in terms of modular all of Europe is doing it and perhaps there's a misconception what a modular but is it possible let me just throw this out there right because some people will be listening and say is it possible that contractors in the business of pouring concrete and breeze blocks and what have you that perhaps have really good access in terms of terms of lobbying are saying well hold on your second we can't really switch to modular home building there's other people doing that we can't approach things the same way could we have people within construction for example lobbying against such a move it's unlikely and from what I've gathered what's lacking here is political direction you know there's going to be no one fix solution to this we need to approach this from a multi multi aspect point of view where we provide houses to conventional means there's a time delay there best will in the world you're talking 12 to 15 months per unit modular homes if it's properly organized with the right incentives in place you can deliver in six to ten weeks what would you do about planning planning as I said under the emergency powers of the chief executives or former county managers I think there has to be a serious national debate that the power is now invested in the managers in where in locations where there's a critical housing need that he granted and that will circumvent nimbyism and all sorts things Catherine because that's a huge issue actually sorry to cross you right but that you know everybody wants housing but when you talk about the reality of where the houses are going to go people don't want them beside them well it's the same with wind farms if we were to believe recent studies but let me put it to you and then I want to bring Amy in on this we're hearing 60 odd school projects now are being deferred because of rising costs road projects some question marks on them as well you know a few health care centres aren't progressing as they should you know squabbles over contracts down the country whatever it might be it's the mood music doesn't sound great to me are we easing into a period of where we're not investing in things like schools health centres and I even say housing yeah I mean I think you know the the day-to-day reality of building has become very difficult for you know those who are professionals in the area as well as those who want to get the jobs done so I mean I personally am involved with the project where the costs have gone up probably about 60 percent since we started out and we're only talking about a fairly short period of time and it says though contractors are so busy um that they give in a quote that if you go for it it's a bonus but they don't actually want the work right so they're pricing themselves out of the jobs they're preset in a target whereby they couldn't say no but they're happy to say no yeah exactly and there's a lot of that going on even with like like board gosh is involved in this particular um the argument or this particular project and you know that the builder said you know that basically it is because they don't want the job and there's a bit of feck off in the in the in the quote which you know that's that's a huge problem and and there's so much demand for people to do work and you know I think that the whole you know the word broken has been used a few times this morning and it seems a bit basic but you know it definitely is quite broken because um how do you fix that yeah do you know what's the solution to that well I mean you know it's going to affect schools it's going to affect it's going to affect everything because there's price gouging going on and I said to somebody recently who's in the building game you know oh prices will have to start to level off or come down and he the simple phrase he said was they won't because too many people are making too much money amen right back to the beginning before we take a break and move on at the heart of all of this is the 12 000 people already homeless who the the chances of them getting accommodation now will seem as far away as there ever people of all I don't need to use the emotive scenarios but we know people who need a roof over their heads not being able to get one they're going to be chucked out you know landlords I mean I have sympathy for them right but they've got an asset they can liquidate at worst case scenario do you know what I mean so my heart is not breaking in that regard and then we're seeing a depopulation I think a lot from rural Ireland as Brendan pointed out for the beginning like it's uh when you take all the strands and they're all interconnected it we really need to start hearing from the powers that be some solutions here we they all was that and maybe us as a people need to stop listening to these pointless debates in the door on the radio and and actually just wait for you know actually hold on your second not interested in your scoring a punch not interested in you get one over pierced a heartier over me hallmark and what we actually need is to stop your crap talk with all due respect and actually start giving us some solutions and some answers a hundred percent a hundred percent you know personally from from my own point of view with regards to housing I think it should be a constitutional right for for each person to have to have a a roof over their head doesn't even have to be their own house they should have a roof over their head now that might be too far left of this spectrum economically to be or a lot of parties in this country but that that's where I personally come from and accept that's that's hard to get to but it's it just goes back to the point you know this is a crisis the word's broken and how many times have we been using this over the year the crisis the broken the system's broken and you know people firing over back shots back and forth in the dial and it's just no good to the people that are you know that are sleeping rough true no fault of their own and so it's I don't know Greg if we've come looking for solutions to this debate no but listen I think it's what it is is actually it's very useful in that we're all have you know all of us it's a reality check and then we've got the strange situation whereby the council are out there currently bidding for houses to house refugees and maybe people are saying oh it's handier to do that because I can chuck them out whenever I like it will cover some of the mortgage and add on of the complication of rent like I'm not even bringing that into the conversation but that's you know that's how crazy the system is Brenda do you want a quick last word before the break the reality is for the last decade we're running at a housing deficit and there's an accumulative effect and we see that and I am going back to the same point conventional solutions are not going to work here and this haphazard approach of the present government and the previous government has shown its results it can't deliver houses by conventional means at the rate that's needed and until we have a holistic approach here that brings in emergency measures that pushes the boundary and we're not good at that in this country for some reason we are not good at crisis management but we need to get into that space immediately because if we do not deal with housing we are facing the highest level of unprecedented recession because of a housing need yeah and I take exactly what you're saying but we only have to look back a couple of years to when we treat something as an absolute emergency all hands on deck legislation throw out that figure again it emphasise the figure the catalyst thrown out there in terms of 60% raise in cost and how scary that is for as usually young person going out to build or you know anybody dipping their toe into that market and for me that that that's terrifying and that's if you can get plan permission to build on your own property okay stay right where you are I think really interesting contributions as always from Catherine Noon, Eamon McGee and Brendan Burn back with more from them in a moment. 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trans children feel safe and included in their school said the chief executive and i teach ugly of rad cars personally backed uh primary school students being offered education about what it means to be transgender but with the caveat and the stressing of his opinion that a clear parental opt out should also be offered and that's uh he i think just to to further flesh out what he said he says look um trans people exist uh and in schools about learning and you teach them that's the case but you don't necessarily have to uh say whether it's not right or wrong but you know what i mean to sort of uh dig any deeper on that this is an issue that is difficult to talk about everyone has opinions on it um some have concerns uh but don't go all the way in in terms of the concerns that other people have it's a complex one it's a difficult one to talk about sure but we'll see how we get on kathryn would you be comfortable with uh with with uh transgenderism being talked about or taught in primary schools absolutely i mean uh 100 percent uh i mean if we're to take guidance from a catholic church nobody would be divorced people would be in relationships that um they weren't happy in you know because that's catholic teaching uh we wouldn't we would still not allow i mean they still technically don't believe that gay people should have um you know relationships um i mean you know it's it's interesting to start the conversation with the catholic church um and it's obviously a good starting point to the conversation but i mean what the catholic church think at this point should not dictate what teach what's thought in school the reason why i did is because i think that an awful lot of parents and it's another one whereby people perhaps don't want to speak publicly because they'd be seen as a a bigot or something uh i think there's an awful lot of people out there i couldn't put a percentage on it that would have applauded what uh that organization has said that's why i sort of you know yeah no by all means and i completely understand i mean i'm not being critical of you introducing that into the conversation at all i mean i respect the the premise of this conversation but um the the catholic church i mean i'm catholic i identify as catholic i was very involved in the um you know i had i suppose a leadership role on the eighth amendment and you know i learned a lot about the human condition during that process and you know what i what really um is is very important to remember is that life is not black and white and the sooner that you can teach children that there are nuances and difficulties and um you know less easy paths that some people people have in life um the better and it i think there's a fear that somehow if um they know about transgenderism they might become transgender um or you know it's not necessarily that but what about the concern that some may have that as you mature right that life is confusing you're you know eastern eastern levels might peak it's testosterone levels might peak they might sway backwards and forwards okay uh and and and in that point you're looking for a hook to hang your hat on now in the past you just worked it through right what about parents yeah considerations that some might feel that you could be planting something into their minds and again and i want to reference the fact that we are living in a time now where it's never been more difficult for teenagers record levels of teenagers presenting with mental health issues self-harm and i don't think we've ever talked more about mental health and and and tried to care for young people so something what we're doing right now it is not working um so is it possible that unless we get this right we could be contributing perhaps to uh more uh mental health issues in teenagers as they go that's not my view i'm just trying to represent things that i've heard out and about absolutely and i i actually agree agree with a lot of what you're saying and i can see why parents would be concerned and um it is a difficult one you know raising a child is a difficult thing you know while it's easy enough in the sense that they need food and they need shelter and you know joy in their life and love you know that it's it's not easy and society as you say you know it has become very challenging and there are a lot of mental health issues as you say and you know there's a lot of statistics to back up the fact that transgender and homosexual children struggle at a greater degree so it makes you know that i presume that this whole conversation um you know has somehow emanated from the stuff that has gone on in the midlands with enough work and and that's been on we've been subjected to that on a daily basis but if you think about the child who's at the center of that you know that's who i'd be concerned about you know this is all a bit of a sideshow bit of drama to be shown on or to eat the night time and what's enough work up to now and you know there's all sorts of t-shirts and crazy stuff up on social media about him but you know at the heart of that is a child who's really struggling you know and who who every day is reminded of the struggle but because of this so i think education for for children in general to be more accepting but at the same time there is a fine balance you know at delicate stages like you say where you know children are discovering their own because in there somewhere you have to teach children to recognize their own identity and to have resilience you know but are we doing that or are we just throwing another ingredient in there and not really considering the potential implications and afraid to do so because it might have set some people but we'll come back to you i want to bring a man in thanks for that no no i'm please i'm just uh want to make sure everyone comes in yours not taking this one catheter no we don't mind me and bradinal this is in the sidelines for this one go on and what do you actually that's typical of even the space and you know men are like oh i don't want to know you know but exactly exactly yeah there you go on a man what's your view no i think the question that was asked at the start is you know in terms of for primary kids to be introduced to that now i would again let catheter take a big issue what the catholic church lecture and else and anything in terms of what we teach our kids okay well let's put that to one side yeah yeah put that to one side but the pretend it was a different organization yeah right yeah the question is are we comfortable with introducing this to primary level kids now i think we've got to introduce it at some stage now in terms of how much do we open their eyes to this what what level are we are we taking them down to here because it's it's a new world we've got to chat to them at some stage about you know homosexuality about transgender trans genderism and despite what people want to say or you know put themselves in one box or another box both of you said it i there is many people in the whole in the homosexual community let him put it like that that aren't actually fully comfortable with constantly being uh attached to transgenderism either yes um for me if i i mean that could be another that could be another debate but that is you know i think maybe straight people will will you know and i there's no harm and i'm not saying either if you're doing anything wrong in doing so but i just want to recognize the fact because it's been said to me on i don't agree and there's quite a cohort within the homosexual community as well as in the straight community that are not fully comfortable with constantly being not linked because that sounds yeah do you know what i mean but but the point i was trying to make in terms of an individual sexuality is not black and white yeah you know and and we need to talk to our kids about this you know the the days i've sent to a daughter like you're gonna marry you're gonna have a boyfriend when you grow up your days they're saying to her son you're you're just gonna have a girlfriend you go up we we have to broaden their perspectives that but for us just to to limit them and then they have these kind of conflicting emotions well i i'm supposed to stay in here yes but we guide them in every way right we guide them in every way in life to make sure they don't cross the road or dangerously they don't do that and they look to us for us to take them by the hand in certain way now i'm not equating uh i'm not equating any uh decisions that might make in terms of who they are partnering with as to crossing the road but you know if you i presume because we're told at an early stage you can see signs and maybe you can adapt how you speak to them at that point but are we past the stage where we say to uh we joke with an eight or nine year old uh have you got a boyfriend at school surely we can't we you know the do you know the way people do the teas and all that no i i know i know but it's it's how we we're not so we can still say stuff out there but we've we just can't limit them um okay no i get what you're saying and and the thing about this is as you see we're all in i think a lot of this stuff really should actually be up to parents to teach now what happens is is a lot of parents don't teach and we know that with the birds and the bees and the consequences of that brandon i want to come back because this is developing uh nicely in terms of people's points of view but i want brandon's point of view on this one now as well well the first thing i have to say is state the obvious we have a tendency in this country for the last 15 years to burden teachers with more and more responsibilities and the amount of work that's been transformed into teaching that's otherwise as i see it because the primary educators and you correctly said is the primary educators or children or parents the professional and principal educators are teachers now as a parent i would have severe difficulties in what exactly is being proposed here because let's look at what we're talking about we're talking about four-year-olds to 12-year-olds the enoc Burke story is a secondary secondary school is where you're talking about teenagers so as a parent as a parent i'm wondering has a teacher a right to talk in terms of transgenderism or anything before my child has reached puberty or sexual maturity that is the debate that we need to talk about but we're talking in a vacuum because in actual fact we're talking about transgenderism and i appreciate and i respect the fact that we have to educate our children about that and that that's a moral responsibility on me as a parent and on us as a society but what exactly are we talking about what has brought us to this point is a ministerial state announced we're going to teach transgenderism and we're going to do it at primary school i spoke to teachers and i asked them what's that's involved don't ask us before you continue that see this is another thing i wonder how many parents of children primary children primary school children actually know what their children are being taught about anything to do with sexuality like how you know what i mean like a lot of people are up in arms about this and that's fine and that's why we're talking about it but i wonder do they know what already is being spoken to their children about and how it's been spoken to them about well if they don't they should and it's very simple way find out you check the textbooks that this children have you ask your child what are you being taught that discussion needs to be happening i assume that that discussion is happening it certainly happened in my household but you know we as a society get a headline transgenders and has to be taught and we all funnel into different types of arguments you know what are we talking about here well i don't think we've settled on that yet as a populist i'm actually impressed this time around because i was following the commentary on social media and i think you touched on it yourself reg when the catholic managers association issued their statement it actually was very well received it was usually in fairness to that organization anything that they would say would be hammered but on this occasion it wasn't so i think that reflects a genuine concern that there is out there and i think we need to just park catholic church views because that's divisive we all have our own views yeah i mean it's an institution that's in clocks and always has been yeah because it is much more deeper than that yeah because there's a lot of people that don't that wouldn't describe themselves as catholic or straight or whatever it might be that all everyone has different points of views Catherine it's like anything i think Greg timing in life is is everything and i think the point about primary and secondary i missed that that nuance in the argument to be honest and i mean it's a difficult one and it's i mean at the end of the day when you were talking about resilience in children you know that's going to come from their home and you know an awful lot of education is coming from the home and really our teaching of sex education over the years especially in catholic schools has been quite conservative and limited and there is a need to address that and we covered a lot of that over over a number of years when i was in politics you know in the whole women's rights area and you know it's a very it's a very potentially broad debate but at the crux of it it's about timing and when it's appropriate really to start having these conversations yeah okay but amen like parents are going to have to go ahead Catherine the nuns didn't show us our videos when i was in mayo in school until sixth class which is when you're just going into for it now i actually don't know exactly what happens with kids now we certainly didn't have a text do you know the only thing i wish the only video i was shown in school was of an abortion uh believe it or not yeah same as that yeah i didn't see anything to do with in the context right in the context of don't do it this is what actually happens and that's the one of the strongest memories in my mind yes friend wouldn't it be wouldn't it be more appropriate to be teaching about safe sex and you know um i mean anyway listen are you get me on my hobby horse yeah i must i must have went to a very good primary school because sorry it wasn't a primary school it was a secondary school i should point to a very small primary school in karik we had four women teachers and we were taught about all aspects of different religions and appreciation of different faiths and those that have none and in terms of sexuality and i'm talking about i've been at a primary school pupil in the 1980s so of course maybe the argument here is there there isn't consistency across and amen to you know every action as a reaction i'll say that again because if you have an opt-out system there's children going to be taken out of certain classes it's going to look uh it's you know it's going to cause a little bit of division and parents and guardians are going to have to familiarize themselves with these conversations because the young ones are going to come home and say do you know what we talked about at school today you know uh and i am come from a household where uh in my house the word pregnant was a swear word so you know like it wasn't everything was expecting or yanway or whatever i don't know maybe that was referring to something else i have no clues but the thing about it is a lot of parents are choosing um now my my kids will never have a phone till they're 21 now um you know what kathryn i wouldn't be surprised a lot of parents are choosing to give their phone their their kids access to phones and and all that goes with it now they're going to get once they have that phone in their hand they're going to get get access to the information that's not filtered you know and you know would we be better off get them in a safe environment and you know educate them in such a way that giving them the best tools to go to go into this big bad world i just think sometimes we could do some after-school stuff whereby there's an after-school class where we're going to be discussing this you see when this is how we're going to be discussing all of that and take some of the stuff out of the line schools are designed or maybe for schools should be designed to create to help the the child go into the world be that education be that life skills or or whatever i've never had cars and i can't believe that yous are uh yous are you and you and leo for our car are aligned okay excellent stuff stay away so i definitely stay away you are deputy john mcquee former former education minister we like this week almost 60 schools uh are are being delayed the construction projects are being delayed uh definitely mcquee this is uh this is worrying uh and a number of schools in donagall on this list what can we do about this well first of all good morning great morning to your panel and give a very form formidable team there this morning yeah great look at it it's worrying it's concerning that's why i raised it this week um now i'm i'm confident there will be a solution because there has to be a solution because each one of these schools both nationally than the county are within the 2016 to 2021 capital plan and if that is the case that was agreed to that's enshrined and it's a question the question i believe is how do they get out of this hole that they've found themselves in um yes there'll be arguments around inflation and increased costs and all the different excuses of the day but at the end of the day a lot of money has been spent uh for the likes of kerim astra and mogul community school um and the likes of sin unions is ready to go to tender all the money going into design team architects planning qs all the preparatory work planning stages so it would actually it would be in the widest of sense is this not what the rainy day fund is for things like this yeah i mean look the problem worth funding be it right through the public sector is they work on a yearly basis so they're given a figure for the year and they're they're trying to work within that figure it's totally wrong i think it's totally archaic and when you have a situation when you have so many schools in this county that are now in the capital plan with great success stories the likes of all those local contractors pumps and being glenn swally and dorian's and conkill letter kenny and also boils up and sin marys and other and little angels so they're working the way they're providing employment but they also need certainty for the next stage so there's plenty of schools there within that within the bundle but it's about having more of a long-term approach rather than this year to year budget but the department they have to come up with the money deeper have to come up with solution and to the people in the parents and concerned parents the likes of care maestro and mobile here today i'm saying that we've no the government has no choice but to come up with a solution i mean you know you've got the ear of the people making the decisions have they given you any positive indications that these projects will proceed as planned well look i have the year because i'm making my business to reach out i'm not i'm not part of the parliamentary party so i don't have that close working relationship as i had previously but i'm i'm i always make of my business to reach out to people and i'm i'm going to continue to annoy them on this issue because it's so so important thanks very much for your time i appreciate you squeezing us in that's former minister of education deputy joe mckew okay i just want to get an update that's when he was available there's so much more we could talk about i'd love another hour but unfortunately time has caught up with us again catherine thank you for joining us i really do appreciate it and good luck with everything no worries thank you thanks for your time really do uh as i say appreciate it brendan always a pleasure to hear your uh considered views thank you for your time thank you very much take care and last but not least amen good stuff thanks very much indeed and come here 14s old enough for a phone isn't it 14 yeah it's a compromise all right 21 it is good luck take care i'll come back to you on my way once 14 as you're probably at the phone all right all right listen come here you're doing a great job nonetheless thank you so much indeed amen mickey there right let's take a break watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the night until noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie do you have training requirements within your company safe tech are 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a crisis situation that demands a special response on today's line to an intro brendan burn said one of the problems at the moment is that government is doing what governments do and the opposition is doing what oppositions do he says unless we go beyond that this crisis will not be resolved you will not get the rate of bill through conventional means to tackle this housing problem i watched the t-shirt on the dial in tuesday the tarnish yesterday and we're not in the right space for debate here we are a country that is a crisis you know in the 80s we lost our young people because there's no jobs we're losing our young people now and they're emigrating to other countries because there's no housing donningall deputy has questioned why the government continues to sit on its rainy day fund while school construction is put on hold a rise in construction costs has been cited by government as the reason why 58 projects nationwide have been stalled around 14 of them in donningall the rainy day fund currently has a balance of six million euro somebody's on a sprinkle says funding must be found to ensure these projects are delivered i wonder really what is the motivation behind the department behind us and the department doing this and um we won't know for uh we probably won't know at all as won't spend the department won't tell us but um i think the funding there is funding there there's money available in the department and the department finance needs to get their act together and make sure that these projects go ahead serious questions are being raised it has emerged the northern arland fire and rescue service was tasked donningall on 93 occasions last year latest figures from donningall county council revealed the donningall fire service was mobilized 935 times during 2022 and dealt with a total of 827 incidents councillor martin mcdermott is seeking clarity as to what has led to the high volume of calls being responded to by the fire service in the north he says if a lack of service resources in donningall is to blame then urgent action must be taken that's something that we really need a very very quick answer on because what we're depending on here is life and death no situations there can't be anything left not dealt with and this is one of those situations where i think that we need an answer extremely quickly we need to know exactly why the northern arland fire service has been called to facilitate our service so many times whether it's a gap or whether we need more services i think that needs to be determined and needs to be sorted out very very quickly a woman has been injured after being assaulted at a residence in bundoran last night investigations into the attack on the woman in her 30s which occurred at around half past 11 are continuing she was brought to hospital for treatment to what's been described as non-life threatening injuries a woman in her 30s was later arrested and is due to appear in court later a post mortem is taking place 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any family member or shaw mcglenn funeral director for more details including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals please go to highlandridio.com and you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show uh good morning if you're just joining us if you have only just joined us i think you missed what many would have found a very interesting contribution from brendan aimin and catherine uh in our first hour some of your comments as they've come in here my child is 10 and a classmate that was a girl now wants to be a boy and the children in class have no problems and have accepted it hasn't phased them at all and i've referenced something very similar uh to that in the past in that a lot of adults or people of a certain generation uh we're having a conversation as if you know what are you gonna do put to panic stations and yet it's very comfortable with different types of language in schools no pushback against different pronouns amongst young people for the most part and that's not of course the same necessarily as our conversation about teaching things in primary school but young people are already ahead of all of this for us not for us sorry whilst many others are going we can't have that but it's already it's already happening in lots of schools and i know that from my own experiences uh this government chose uh chose to announce during shaktan the galaga reduction in the amount of time to be spent on irish and religion in primary schools in favour of teaching european languages then again should we expect anything better from government ministers that would prefer to saint spen st patrick stay outside the country when our young people are forced to emigrate and would give anything to be home on our national day transgenderism and homosexuality are not the same at all one is attraction to the opposite sex trans is when the person is confused about their own identity uh they describe it as identity dysphoria that's not how uh trans people and the supporters would see it i'm surprised that the feminists are not open arms about this do they not see the results worldwide just look at the women's sports the biological female have all lost out to male or being sent to women prisons and what happened uh in there we need to take a pause here and actually think of the children not to be confused there's a few things going on at the moment the the whole um trans people in sport that's an ongoing conversation uh at the moment there's one case of a particular that's called a lot of attention of a man who identified as a woman went into a woman's prison and committed a sexual assault in their uh they've since been moved to uh a prison i mean it's not happening up and down this country um we do know and we spoke to uh representatives of women's g e a concerned of uh women who were born male having a physical advantage in the dangers of that we're having this conversation out now live i think i don't think we're gonna get anywhere on this issue or any other issue if we accuse people who have concerns of being you know uh anti this or anti that you know let's talk about our concerns also people who don't accept that someone can identify as a different sex as to which that they were born or a different gender uh to accuse them of having a mental illness or this that and the other either way that type of throwing from one side to the other is not going to really get us anywhere and it's not good for the children either what we need to do is have civilized debate tease it out what's acceptable what is not what's the right thing to do what's the wrong thing to do and the adults in the room rather than insulting each other or being pitched on two polarized points converse and let's truly all of us on this issue on all the other issues actually put the children first not our views um that's all i would say because i mean as i said during the week we were talking about this issue and i had one public and a couple of dms of people from different sides of the argument uh you know using i don't care but using really foul and abusive alley uh language towards me and saying that i'm this that and the other i thought what does that it doesn't bother me what did it achieve we're not going to get anywhere on this issue or any of the issues for that matter i call it says there are far more important subjects in schools which need to be taught religion and sex education should be left to the parents at home then if you want your children to have this knowledge you do it the problem is is that a lot of parents may not have any of these conversations at home for a number of reasons they might not be comfortable with it themselves and then what happens is is that the the young people head into their teenage years and it can cause all sorts of problems i i don't personally for me i don't i'm not sure it's up to teachers i mean let's not forget now there are going to be teachers with all different points of views on a very divisive subject that are going to be asked to potentially teach on it you know that's a lot to ask of teachers certainly uh it's just going to cause another problem call us as most children leaving school can just about read and write many need far more support in these fields lots let's focus on these issues indeed and this there's hundreds and hundreds of of children in this county alone that are seeking additional supports just to be able to go into school uh and to be integrated and learn and have the best outcomes um and it's got nothing to do with these divisive topics that dominate so much the conversation. Greg i'm disappointed with your choice of Catholic bashing panel um that that is fine but firstly i suggested let's take i don't want to get into the Catholic bashing right so i hope you recognize us as let's take that out of it and also you would have heard uh brendon um saying along the similar lines that this is not necessarily about the Catholic church so there was balance there all we can do is offer you balance away and brendon both said look at obviously two other of the panelists have strong views about the Catholic church perfectly entitled to them but that's not what the conversation we're having today so we move past that quite quickly i think uh but they go on to say parents constitutional rights and choices regarding the education of their children must be respected brendon seems to be the only respectful voice with any common sense this is not a topic for primary school classes it's not even suitable in my opinion for 12 to 15 year olds puberty itself can cause anxiety in some youngsters and parents and medical personnel should be the ones to navigate their children through these issues not publicly in a full classroom the consensus seems to be if science doesn't match your agenda just twist and life for long enough and the herd will fall into line science is doesn't cover everything though i'm you know constantly all of a sudden everyone's debate and everything on the basis of science but if enough people feel what they feel themselves right and they're prepared to spend their entire life with that feeling because that makes them feel who they are i'm not sure really science is ever going to cover that because we're talking about people hi greg um right we'll come back to that one absolutely agree with brendon where does the extracurricular teaching stop my goodness can parents not bring up their children anymore it's not our job and our role to educate our children and pass on our values and beliefs it seems if you don't follow the narrative you are excommunicated teach our children to respect each other but we don't necessarily have to agree with everything i agree with greg after school classes perhaps in partnership with parents if it's controversial if it's going to cause a problem for parents if it's going to cause a problem for students if it's going to cause a problem for teachers let's have a conversation about um let's have a conversation about let's take some of those after school classes or Sunday school or whatever it might be called and opt into it so if you're a parent that has difficulties discussing certain things with your children and you know what's going to be discussed at a certain class right you say right this is doesn't really go against the belief system i've given to my child which is what we do really i suppose but it will help them and educate them and maybe it it's a conversation that i'm not comfortably having well that's good that would be that's the option isn't it why do something that's upset to some people children have all different levels of maturity boys aren't as mature as girls is that being taken into consideration you know all of those type of factors need to be uh thought on amen McGee said his kids will be 21 before they get a mobile phone i will ask again when they're 14 and start secondary school amen like the rest of us will give into peer pressure and he'll be lucky if his child gets to 14 with no phone today is more about safety and i think amen with a wink is acknowledging exactly what you're saying that's what he hopes and that's why he exaggerated it to 21 but i'll tell you i wouldn't like to try and refuse a 10 year old a phone or an eight or a nine year old now because all their uh student all their peers have them they're all on tiktok uh that's not all but you know what i mean a lot of them so you could have your eight nine ten year old in a classroom where the majority of children are on their phones you know it comes at you far quicker than 14 anyway um okay right we're going to get a break out the way because we've the bingos coming on the way bingo numbers there's more coming in on other issues about roads and what have you the roads around kilay at st johnson are very hazardous can you ask the council what's going on an absolute disgrace well warned in the forecasts so they believe don't go cocoa or a joke um hi greg out and about this morning on the roads they're an absolute disgrace is the county council putting any salt on the roads at all only in ireland would you see this they can do nothing right are you talking about snow on the roads though because to be honestly gritting and salt has very little impact on snow uh it's great for melting some ice uh and black ice but even if that is melted or not gritting is not going to make much of a difference on snow if snow is the issue that you're talking of here it will have some impact but if there's another fall of snow it has a one hit you know it doesn't sit on the road so if they go out and i hope i'm not doing the roads cruiser to service but if they go out and grit and salt the road at six melts the ice for us to whatever it might be and then it snows that salt and grits finished with it doesn't it doesn't really have any meaningful impact thereafter and there's no as far as i'm aware in terms of what you can spread out the back of a lorry there's not an awful lot you could do if it's snow we're talking about now if you're saying there's black ice on the roads and it's on a gritting route um well we need to talk about that but let us know 08 6 6d 25 08 6 6 25 000 clon manning to bonkrana roads bad we're told roads bad here in drum freeze bonkrana car off the road thank you for that information and i hope the person didn't get too bad a shock uh and it would be a shock what a way to start your friday and is there another one on the roads um no the rest of the schools and stuff so i'll come back to them separately rather than um grouping them all in okay uh 08 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the seai grant funding under the same criteria as other home owners so what was what was the the differentiation before we got this clarity and and and what does this mean going forward claire um so prior to this um announcement this week um homeowners who were removing the outer leaf of their building and renovating their existing home who were not demolishing their house they were allowed to avail of the seai grant funding and that's the same terms and conditions as any homeowner including the homeowner that does not have a defective block um that's a criteria so they can um access these grants if their house is built prior to 2011 now last march in 2022 um daryl brian announced that homeowners who are demolish in their homes could then um obtain the seai grant funding which was a great um difference to the to the entire scheme now this week it's just been clarified um so unfortunately it's only the homes that are built prior to 2011 um they have we have to stick in criteria as you know homes that don't have defective blocks so any home built prior to 2011 can access the seai grant funding which is fantastic so essentially what that means is that um homes built in that era era could access up to perhaps 35 000 euro in addition to the meeker redress grant funding um homes built after 2010 11 unfortunately cannot access um the seai grant so is that if it's so if you had defective concrete post 2011 and you had to demolish and rebuild you can't apply for this grant still you can only apply then for anything that's renewable so the seai's uh criteria is that renewable grants are available to homes built prior to 2021 so in that instance you can't go through a one-stop shop or an energy provider to do essentially a deep retrofit to your home but what you can avail of is six and a half thousand for a heat pump um up to 2400 euro for PV panels on your roof so you're limited to those two options unfortunately but what this means then and it's not done after you've rebuilt it's as you are planning you rebuild presumably you can apply for these grants and get an additional 20 to 30 000 euro to bring your property up to standard so it's all done in the process as you build you know you're not having to build a house to an old standard and then re and then retrofit a new build you can yeah i know it sounds complicated but i just want to it sounds complicated so to clarify if you were re knocking down your house and rebuilding it essentially you could um avail of the seai grants and use that money to increase the depth of insulation on your floor your walls you could change to triple glazed windows um and put in a renewable source of heat so the the redress scheme allows for rebuilding your house to pre 2008 building standards which essentially means that your building that was um lesser insulation normally an oil central heating whereas now with these new grants you can use a renewable technology such as a heat pump or a geothermal heat pump um PV panels in your roof and and triple glazed windows and adequate insulation throughout i mean there's no point uh going back over that argument but can you imagine with the greens in government as well them okaying a scheme that took that that effectively allowed people to build up build rebuild a house to 15 year old standards it's anyway but that's that's the decision they made and it's but i mean that yeah it's it's really unfortunate because if um you and i were building a brand new house today and just a plan for planning permission we wouldn't be allowed to build to pre 2008 so it doesn't really make sense no then you'd be could be doing you could be have 15 20 000 new stock houses brand new houses built to 208 standards like it's completely and it's counterproductive to the ireland's climate action plan to rebuild and houses to pre 2008 um so but anyway it's unfortunate but it's a brilliant new story for anybody who has a home that was built prior to 2011 because um essentially you can obtain up to about 35 000 euro depending on how far you go with the renewable technologies um you can obtain that on top of um your maker redress now if you're in receipt of certain uh benefits from the government you can actually get a further top up so um if you're on a disability allowance a pensioner um work and family benefit um your sea grant fund and can be topped up to close to 45 46 and will people get more value for that uh in they're actually spending that money on a more modern way of doing it rather than retrospective respect in other words if i were to do it on my house i have to take windows out i'd have to do old windows out and that's more work and more cost like a people uh in a in a new build process going to get more bang for the book from the 35 grand than someone retrofitting might absolutely um you're constructing you're reconstructing your new walls now so it's more practical and it makes sense to install the insulation onto the walls now while the building works are going ahead and install your triple glazed windows now put in the pipe work for your underfloor or your your air to water heating system you know incorporate all of those elements into the build right now to do it retrospectively just wouldn't make sense okay that's good that means that they're getting better value for money um we we seen uh revised building costs published in in the last couple of weeks uh you've had a look a chance to look at them are they reflective of the reality of building at the moment if you can actually find someone to do the work for you uh yeah so i was one of the chartered surveyors who repress those eight house types for the society of chartered surveyors of Ireland this year and last year and those rates are 100 reflective of what the what it would cost to rebuild the the houses to pre-2008 standards and i can't emphasize that enough we had a specific terms of reference to adhere to from the housing department as as members of the scsi and that was basically that we we weren't taking into account to install brand new foundations so we were reusing foundations where we were building uh we had to price to build houses in traditional block built slate roofs concrete floor timber intermediate floors it was oil burners for central heating standard rated or standard electrics um we did not again salvage of materials and to account and the house was built essentially to pre-2008 build it did it feel a bit weird a group of professionals like yourself being mandated or charged with costing something to old standards 15 year old standards it must have felt a bit strange in that room it was very strange but if you read our report we advise our reports very very detailed and we clearly state that we advise people to build to today's building standards and we are essentially just re-pricing this for the government for the purpose of this scheme and it's very very clear in our reports that we recommend that people if they can like rebuild right up to today's standards yeah for sure and that's what i hope was as many do as possible now that being said trying to get through the system all the pipe work and still waiting on the new scheme all the challenges are still there but one box that has been ticked is that um the these grants uh what we'd probably call them retrofit grants but anyway first people rebuild or if they're doing an actually if there are now many people are going to be able to qualify for them and we have that clarity where we didn't have that before so as you described it let's not forget it it is a good news story it's a brilliant news story yeah okay claire thanks very much for your time i mean do you have any insights through yourself your own company and chatting to people are we seeing is the stuff that we're not hearing about more houses that are that that are seemingly affected by defective concretes uh but you know are you seeing any trends anything on foundations or anything like that there that's coming from you know on the ground work that's not necessarily fully out in the public domain yet that you're happy to talk about there's a lot of apprehension about foundations and the retention of your foundations um people are nervous about rebuilding a house and you know i think there's a lot more investigation required um you know uh it's if i was a make-a-home owner and i was rebuilding i would be nervous and i would prefer everyone would prefer if they were completely demolishing and and rebuilding um so there is a lot of nervousness out there about um taking that route i suspect if it were you you're probably if you could avoid it at all costs or at any cost you probably wouldn't rebuild on the same foundations yeah yeah okay and yeah which is you'll put the feeling out i'd feel the same by the way it's not uh a necessarily a commentary on the wider issue it's just what we do personally if we could okay listen claire thanks for that really informative i appreciate it okay take care of yourself bye bye that is claire urwin there who is a quantity surveyor 08 660 25 000 whatsapp syntax coming into us on that number including these good morning greg what's another few thousand homeless this government doesn't care they've gone out of their way to house non-nationals they have no respect for the common people and election is needed again you know i know you're kind of having a shot at both the government and well they are not non-nationals they're not irish nationals but the housing problem is there and the accommodation that a lot of people come into this country going into is not accommodation that would actually fix the housing crisis either or stop people being evicted from the homes they're currently in but i understand where you're coming from and i'm no point for me to keep clarifying that hi greg i heard emergency powers in terms of local authorities to provide traveler accommodation there's been 58 million unspent travelers are 20 times two times more likely to be homeless than the general population indeed i don't know what the recent figures are but we weren't fantastic if i remember correctly in this county in drawing down that money hi greg re-school works when my son started at st unans we had a parents meeting where they talked about the new school building we thought it might be finished by the time he was in fifth year he's leaving now in june and they still haven't even started it hi greg will mville community college promised a new building for years be impacted by the government's news can highland have a report to visit the school and see the conditions the children and teachers have endured i'm very familiar with that we covered it extensively i've no problem uh we're going back to it but i know how bad it is there because as i say i think we spent about a month talking about it and we hoped um you know there was a positive development in that regard we are going to try and find out for sure what schools projects are affected i am from hawn head don fanny and we've had for no signage after four years of asking anytime i call the county council they don't seem to have anyone to answer me it's part of the wild atlantic way and there's little to no signage which means any tourists that are going in that direction aren't getting to see the amazing views this place has to offer as it's quite a confusing road for people that would not be familiar with this area is this the same road to whereby signage is needed to direct people in which direction to go to save traffic jams and stuff on my uh because we've talked about that if it's the same road on a number of occasions again yeah indeed good morning greg on the a5 road issue there was a land survey took place and pins put in the field in the year 2000 to build a carriageway from manager striban compulsory purchase of lands were to take place march 2001 to build the road a few years ago the pins were taken out again as this road went on the back burner that was there's been a lot of collisions on that road this past 20 years that is part of the 10 t isn't it it makes total sense that these multimillion euro regeneration plans are on hold surely healthcare and rehoming the families and individuals affected by the effective concrete blocks crisis is a priority can we not foster a sustainable attitude and use existing resources until priorities are sorted yeah well listen that could be an argument to make if not building schools meant that there was more homes for homeless people and more homes for people who are in defective concrete homes but that's not how it works save not spending it in one area doesn't mean it's going to be spent in the other the reason they're not spending it is because they probably feel they don't have it in the budget so that doesn't mean it's available right let's see here for Matthew bell happy 18th birthday Matthew coming in for me for Kieran jack grace and Kate and more of your comments to get 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sleet along northern coasts in the afternoon and evening daytime temperatures of daytime temperatures of four to six degrees this uh current spell of bad weather is a reminder of how much we'd love to get away wouldn't we uh a lovely holiday to look forward to wouldn't that be nice shone joins us in studio of course um head of sales shone good morning to you morning great what about now good morning to you i'll have another good morning loud and clear and emma mcqueen owner of atlantic travel letter kenny emma good morning good morning greg we're going to speak to both of you but what are we here to launch this morning shone well i just thought when i woke up this morning spring was in the air and i thought it'd be a great time for friday this launch a competition really well what about the five four three two one days on social media people were wondering nice coincidence what is this all about what is this all about no so we we did it this time last year and and it was very very successful so we thought why try and change things um let's do exactly what we did last year and we're so that's what we are today to to launch not that you run out of ideas no i've loaded those loads of those but you're always i was always told if it's not broken don't try and fix it for sure and you're right too um because it's a cracking price sure it's brilliant absolutely brilliant and and the great thing about it is it's a flexible price it's not something that you have to go and purchase today your ten thousand is something that you can spread over either the timeline that suits you as it was important and um well emma allude to shoring and a second is the opportunity of where you can go with this and and the added bonus is there's an it's ten thousand euros of a travel voucher but there's five thousand spending money as well so you've got the best of both worlds all right so it's a ten thousand year sorry it's a ten thousand euro uh top prize we'll talk about other things in a moment and it's the same as last year in other words you could have you know a number of very i mean you get a great holiday for a fifteen hundred quid for example or you could do a lapland and a florida that's really the type of it's up to the scope that's up to the listener who wins it's it's it's a dream opportunity that you can choose destinations you might normally not go to uh or you might want to go and revisit again but the the win-win is if you've got the time you've now got the money right okay so go to highland radio dot com click on win a holiday and answer a simple question then you choose your tickets it's the same the most you'll pay for a ticket is ten euro it's one ticket for ten discounted then if you buy six for fifty euro best value ten for eight year and again we don't need to remind you you can get them for yourself or as a lot of people do buy multiple tickets and gift them out because it's a lovely thing for someone to have to look forward to that draw which takes place um on the thursday isn't it or the friday it's thursday the sixth of april it takes the draw takes place so it's not that far away either right okay we'll we'll talk about that a little more um but Emma Emma McHugh we weren't able to travel for a while weren't we and um i think i think the between you know the airlines and and destinations we bounced back an awful lot more quickly than an awful lot of people in the industry we're hoping for uh yeah most definitely i think predictions were that by the end of 24 that we have reached back to pre-covid levels but we've already seen that that's already been achieved like ireland um has actually its highest air connection at the moment um in 2023 which is more choice for us then yeah more choice 30 new routes out of out of irish airports now this year than pre-covid so the bounce back has been um like it's been very very successful um people have been itching to travel most people have have dipped their toe last year some people may be holding out my toe's still in me sock well what better way to do it um than with uh 10 000 euro fantastic and as i say you can splurge on this gives someone the opportunity for that holiday of a lifetime that is probably beyond most of us if the truth be told we'd love to think that we could personally for me i think i'd break it up and do a series of things over over over time um have you seen any difference in trends you know with the resex it kind of is like a reset you know because we've got to add a habit for doing anything two or three years so in terms of destinations or types of holidays have you seen any different trends since we started traveling again Spain is still number one for irish per capita we are the biggest visitors in the world into spain per population um but what we have seen is people are people who are going back on their family holiday are maybe treating themselves to where they might have done a three star they might just go four star this time they might have done self catering they might choose to go all inclusive we're also seeing a lot of group holidays whether it's ladies celebrating a big birthday traveling together or multi-generational where grandparents now are going to be joining um families and holidays some of the bucket list stuff like disneyland or lando is coming in um you have multi-generational cruise options and then we have um kind of 30th 40th vegas three nights four nights and then maybe nashville on the way home it's a mix and you know what also what we're going to see here as well i think at least some of those that are entering family and we were talking about it a little later on and not being negative but family emigrating and have emigrated going to america canada australia different places to visit family that you haven't seen for ages do you know what i mean which is a holiday as well but for some it would be an opportunity to do that that couldn't ordinarily do that your listeners abroad can enter as well so it's not just just absolutely yeah yeah so all your listeners that are good idea yeah i'd be more than happy to go actually give them the price in person very happy if you've been itching to get home when you're listening in it is open to it's open to everybody and as you had mentioned as well imagine getting a gift of a ticket and doing the winner yeah so we yeah and it is it's funny how we've seen this over the last while shone the way it's broken up between the person who's bought the ticket or gifted it to someone and and they've all been happy however it's played out so the closing date for entries is the 6th of april at 11 am and the draw will be live on this show then at 11 30 am so there's an early bird thing here again to incentivize people because we don't know when the winning ticket is going to be bought it could be the first ticket could be the second could be the second last so people will have their own little time that they want to get in what we're saying is get in nice and early before the 24th of march yeah we've we've a little incentive there and it's a lovely incentive so courtesy of Atlantic travel and and celebrity cruises we have a thousand-year-old voucher for a cruise but we've also we've topped that up with a thousand-year-old spending money as well so if you buy a ticket between now and the 24th you'll be in our what i would all call that the draw before the big draw i know and i i just i know you just love i just love that i had to get that one in no i don't i don't i get you so that's two weeks right so you've got two weeks to buy your tickets to be in both draws effectively absolutely two weeks yeah two chances to win and the trends have been that the the the buying early has has been more favorable in the last four or five draws listen there's people entering competitions in the last week for a one thousand-year-old voucher to a celebrity cruise booking with a thousand-year-old they say right i've a picture that it's a it's a tenor right that's actually just the bonus you're still in then for the big one ten thousand and you know again you know we have a great reaction to these competitions don't get me wrong but this is not sort of an international facebook competition where you've got hundreds of thousands of people buying tickets do you know what i mean there's a we have a pool here that of people that will buy what i'm trying to say is is that you know you've a far better chance of winning competition like this in my opinion than you might have some of these sort of national international competitions that you also might see on social media so um spain you're saying emma is eternally possible i actually was thought i'd prefer portugal to spain yeah it would be number two um i'm actually heading for spain this year so yeah and i haven't been in a number of years i've been going to portugal and for some reason we're back at spain so it'd be nice to i love i love two i love the two and the fact that you're guaranteed to come here i'm just like trying to pick between my children i'm not saying i'm not turning my nose up in spain here you know i mean but i don't know just i prefer the eldest portugal but i know what i'm joking the only thing see the thing though is like i haven't been away in ages though emma the thing with me though is i would have a tendency to play it safe do you know what i mean like i was lucky enough to get to lanzarote uh and then south um that's spain isn't it and then south portugal right i don't have the maybe it's because of the the risk of the money i don't i would like maybe try greece i don't know would i like it i don't know i don't want to risk it do you know what i mean you're even maybe a uh france southern france but i suppose if i had money that wasn't mine that i'd won i might feel a little bit more adventurous does that make sense yes whereas i'm trying i err on the side of caution i want to play safe so it goes somewhere where it is but i would like to go back to where they've been because you know sometimes you spend that first day or two uh getting to know the surroundings if you're landing day one you know what restaurant you want to go to at night so i want to spread my wings but i do accept yeah i do enjoy that familiarity but i think what i'm saying is if i had the resources like if i had a 10 000 euro uh spend here you would take a chance i wouldn't mind take a few chances i could your golf clubs would cost too much to put on the plane that's true that's true um so we so we've obviously the islands tenorif lanzarote portugal mainland where would be next for for the artist is greece yeah greece greece and italy as well is extremely popular it's another country i've never been to yeah but you have i suppose with italy you have a mix of the serento amalfi coast where it's quite hotel-based yeah and then it's very very popular for camping holidays for families so up around lake garda um serrameon up around that area is absolutely stunning so you know it does cater to a multitude in terms of what you're looking for a lot of people could do three nights roam florence like italy is is fantastic france then as well is extremely popular um dibrovnik this year as well is um is we do see an increase in people looking to go to dibrovnik and then cruise as well is cruise yeah and i think i think everyone at these points walking up to the fact that it's not just a specific demographic that enjoys cruising the cruise as cruises are for everyone multi intergenerational um there's a question i was going to ask in terms of accommodation to people is it what's the problem is it uh is it villas is it apartments or has there been any changes in that over the years in terms of the the holidays you're booking for people last year what we would have seen would have been people wanting more independent accommodation so a villa post-covid people were probably a little bit more um wary of mixing and stuff like that so either self-contained apartments or um resort hotels that wouldn't have maybe three four hundred rooms smaller boutique style but this year um i suppose it's because of availability as well it's it's what's left right and just just before we wrap up on the on the holiday um in terms of cost this year where's the price point like compared to previous years there's definitely an increase and i would say probably but probably about 15 for peak months on 2019 or okay yeah it's 15 percent okay it's nothing but it's not quite where expected it to be either yeah but if you're looking at chile august they were always the most expensive months ago but for me i would do one for you in july and august why would i i mean i'd be in ireland you know i mean it's horses for courses but i you know i love it here in the in the in the beautiful weather for the two days the wednesday thursday tend to be the best value of months where you have the weather and the price points that kind of tie into and then people do if you don't have children so we'll take their kids as go but other people go we can go somewhere and there's not as many of other people's children around you know that a lot of people factor different things in but you can decide whatever you want to do with the 10 000 euro holiday voucher our tickets are one for a tenner then it gets cheaper for you six for 50 or 10 for 80 you can individualize them for yourself or for people around you for gifts whatever it might be if you buy them in the next two weeks you're also in a draw for a thousand euro cash along with a thousand euro voucher for any celebrity cruise booking so get on the website now if people don't want to go on the website some do some don't you can still call can you and buy your ticket here over the phone show you can yes and it's uh it's live now so if you want to buy today uh 07491 25 000 all right uh anything else i think that's it isn't no it can get much better than that right brilliant stuff all right good luck if you are entering the draw drums on its way back or the trombone what does she call it again or finola called it finola's tumbola tumbola that's it all right emma mcqueen owner for atlantic travel if you want any uh a chat with people who uh know where you might want to go or can give you advice you can call the crew at atlantic travel and they can make it all very easy for you in terms of uh booking your holiday or even just advice and a conversation uh thank you emma thank you shone quinn back with news shortly stop highland radio are going to scotland from monday the first of may to thursday the fourth of may with the very best of music and we would love for you to join us stay in at the four-star crown plaza hotel in glasgow we are bringing with us some of the biggest country stars including myself david james deklin ernie and robert mezell to name a few you will enjoy luxury travel to glasgow three nights dinner bed and breakfast with music and entertainment each 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optional covers to this time for that's entertainment and as i say the bands back together it is michael and old presidente finula both of you thank you so much for joining us hello hello is there a title i'm expected to use on i think you've got it right there we say yeah okay this is as long as you're bowing and you know giving me due deference i'm that's exactly what i told him every time we meet up yes that's what i had to do all week but thank you for squeezing us in because it's a challenging role isn't in terms of everything but the only the front facing bit for me is the amount of stuff you're going to in different meetings and all that kind of stuff yeah it is exciting yeah well i have been i was the vice president there for a year so fairness to the chamber it does give you a little bit of a running so it gets you kind of up and running with it so that you kind of know a little bit what to expect but yeah it is uh like i went to um i was honored to be invited to the rotary had a a lunch for their the brilliant work that they do but in need of in honor of the women international women's day and you kind of arrive in thinking oh this is lovely i've been invited to lunch beautiful lovely and then they're like oh you'll say a few words and you're like oh okay well he's a fan there's no problem with that um i saw really effectively now it's uh far go away bonjour uh i mean i don't know when i was last time i haven't seen my poor mommy in ages man listen they would follow on donning all woman now i know i'd love to get the accent that's the only thing about me you would love it well let's start with getting a go away accent and then shred that and then a done ago accent i know i really wanted to do it stages okay listen coming up in the next hour we have um live music uh there's a great show on at the moment or coming up sorry and it is nine till five and we have members of choir coming in to sing in the next hour so stay tuned for that get on our facebook youtube channels youtube much more possibly popular than facebook now in terms of people watching and watching back so get on an aether of them anyway and watch that uh and another thing that's been set in the stage on fire and i've it's one of those shows that people have gone out of the way to talk to me about do you know what i mean it's like a it's like a one of the god tier tv shows and that's kinky boots in on green on now it's all sold out of course and has been for quite some time but to a man and woman everyone who's spoken to me about it wanted to talk about it you have to see this is amazing i'm not sure if it's because it was i mean obviously it was brilliant or it shattered their expectations i'm not quite sure fenula we'll start with you you squeeze this into your yeah well look at i love the musicals that the letter kenny musical society do um they've always done a fantastic job and our own donal is involved in it so that kind of makes me go even more his deep timber and the whole thing but this was i must see because i was promised donal in high heel boots and it did not disappoint gregg's face i hope the camera's on gregg for that expression i have surreptitious photographs taken which will be used at a later date when i want donal to do something he doesn't want to do my problem with that was is it's not the imagery i think it would look quite fetching oh he does he struggles with ice and my concern would be my concern it is it probably is a miracle it probably is a miracle that he didn't injure himself in some way but thank god he did not um no it's a great show it's first of all you have to say is congratulations and fair play to the society because this is the first time that this show has ever been seen in ireland it's only just ambitious and i don't know that word strotted out but yeah something that hasn't been done here before it hasn't been done in this country on any kind of an amateur level whatsoever you know what i mean it's and i think it came professionally here up to doubling uh about three or four years ago and that's really the last time that i ever heard anything about it i never even thought about it has been a community program which is really i suppose what the society is but they did a fantastic job of it really good they had an amazing cast an amazing team behind it you know there's some really good fantastic strong singers they also which i like about as well as they're not afraid to open up their doors and bring in people from other parts if they're needed you know in order to boost the group there was an amazing group of guys that did all of the dressing up and wore the heels the whole way through they threw four young guys and one older guy that looked like hard to tell through all the makeup they danced the whole way through huge amounts of energy required between the singing and uh the performing and both at the same time absolutely the dancing in this i was up to uh another level they definitely threw it all into the dancing because i've seen sometimes in the past and occasionally it kind of go oh yeah that person dances like i do which is exactly what you expect from you know what i mean these are not professional actors that ever they do such an amazing job but uh they just really look knocked it up a level i th