The first power outages as a result of the current windy conditions have been reported. 1,932 homes and businesses are without power in Derrybeg with ESB networks hoping to have supplied restored before midday. Care is being advised on the roads with a yellow wind and rain warning in place for six counties including Donegal. There have been some reports of fallen trees and debris on roads around the county but so far Garthys say no major issues or incidents have been reported to them. The warning came into effect to this morning. It remains in place until two this afternoon. The ESRI's warning home buyers will feel the burden of the concrete levee and not the construction industry. The new 10% levee on concrete blocks was introduced in the budget to help those affected by mica, pyrethite and other issues caused by defective blocks. The ESRI's post-budget analysis also found many of the one-off measures will aid most households from rousing prices this winter. Well after three days of debate on this week's budget that all sits adjourned until next week but many to these are still seeking changes and tweaks. One of the measures announced in the budget was the scrapping of the preferential vat rate for hotels and hospitality businesses from next April. One of the reasons cited before the budget for that move was the perception that hotels in Dublin had been indulging in price gouging particularly during the Garth Brooks concerts. However South Donegal to the Marion Harkon says because of the weakness of sterling the measure will have a disproportionate impact on the border counties. Tourism businesses in the northern and western region have to compete with a much more competitive sector in Northern Ireland and if we pile on a 50% increase in VAT some businesses won't be able to take the escalating costs. So I'm making a strong case that for at least the next 12 to 18 months the government would maintain a 9% fat rate on hospitality and tourism. It would be a crucial intervention in the border countries. Avan's been driven through the gates of the home of Sinn Féinjédi Martin Kenny. The Slagolitrim in South Donegal to the says it was very traumatic for his wife who was alone in the property at the time it happened at the house in Havas in Litrim at two yesterday morning. Four Moscow controlled regions of Ukraine that held referendums on joining Russia will be incorporated into the country later at a ceremony in the Kremlin which will be attended by President Vladimir Putin. The West has denounced the votes as a sham and said they don't recognize the annexation. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is calling on Russian citizens to stop Vladimir Putin saying he wants war. Everyone in the world understands well what such an attempt to annexation would actually mean. It will not mean what the Kremlin hopes for but to stop this you will have to stop the one in Russia who wants war more than life, your life, the citizens of Russia. Anfino Volsetti's our dish begins today with speculation rife about the future of Tishik Mihal Martin as the party leader with more appears to the correspondent Shonda Foe. This or dish comes at the end of a politically busy week and Mihal Martin may be hoping the biggest budget spend in the history of the state will delay talk about his future as party leader. But while he's been dealing with the business of government discontent in Fina Falls been rising many on the back benches of the doll and of the grass roots of the party feel disconnected from the decision making in government. They feel that while Mihal Martin's been dealing with the issues of his office he's neglected his role as Fina Fall leader. There's also a certain frustration that none of the prospective candidates to replace him have put up their hand to actually challenge for the leadership. Some TTs wonder if that will come this weekend and whether a challenger could use the or dish as a launching post but all comers will be wary of the old adage he who wields the knife rarely wears the crown. Wet and windy with widespread heavy rain and squally downpours leading to a risk of spot flooding and dangerous road conditions that yellow wind and rain warning in place until two this afternoon. The rain will clear eastwards later to sunny spells and showers. Top temperatures today 14 or 15 degrees celsius in strong and gusty southwesterly winds. They'll veer westerly and ease with the clearing rain into the afternoon and that's Elen Rillio news back with news again at 10 o'clock. An original series now streaming exclusively on Disney plus the old man. There's nothing he won't do to ensure his own survival. 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But anyway, the lines are open for you to get involved in our conversation. Our Friday panels joining us right now. But we want your views as well. 08 660 25,000. That's your WhatsApps and texts. Give us a call and 07 491 25,000 07 491 25,000 or emails to comments at Highland radio dot com. Don't forget now you can watch the program. There's a link on our website beside listen live. It's called watch live click in and you can see the show today. Or you can go straight to our YouTube channel Highland radio Island or our Facebook pages. Good morning to fellow me first in today watching from Mallonhead. What's the weather like up there? I wonder. I'd say it's breezy. All right, then let's say hello to our guests. We'll say good morning first if that's okay to Dr. Joe Kelly. Good morning, Joe. How are you keeping today? All good. Blustery morning. Very blustery. Indeed. We appreciate your time this morning as we do that of Independent Deputy Marion Harkin. Good morning, Marion. Nice to see you again. Good morning. I happen to be in Galway and I can tell you it's as wet and windy here as it is anywhere in Donegal. Okay, well, there's a few areas I think that when it's slightly breezy. I'm hearing from Mallonhead, but they're so used to weather up there. It's probably gale force for Father John Joe Duffy has just joined us as well. Father John Joe, you're welcome to the program. Thank you, Greg. Great to have you with us. Okay, a lot to get through. Let's talk about the budget. And I wonder, I'll come to you first on this one, Father John Joe, not Father John Joe, I'll come to you afterwards, Dr. Joe Kelly. You know, a lot of the front pages again around about this concrete levee. When you announce a 11 billion euro budget, you'd be quite disappointed, would you not, that the front pages are being dominated days later by a scheme that really, you know, gonna claw in about 80 or 90 million. Or maybe that the government would be pleased with that. What's your take? Well, look, nobody's going to be happy no matter what kind of budget is done. And you're always going to find holes and blow holes in it. And I think in the round, in the present environment we're in, and we've probably be discussing that where you have increased interest rates, inflation, we're probably heading towards a recession, we have to be realistic that this isn't just going to be a once off budget. We're going to be in this same situation this time next year. So how do we approach this? And I think in fairness. Yes, but what you're doing, Father John, not Father Joe, I don't know why I keep calling you Father John Joe, what you're doing there, Joe, is that the government's work, you're doing exactly what they would want you to do. You're deflecting from the question and talking about the other elements of the budget. I'm saying to you, all the papers and the people are talking about this 80 million euro concrete levee, they're not talking about all the lovely measures that you want to talk about. I'm not a spokesperson for the government or for anybody else, but I think we just have to be fair in the round to Pascal Donahoe and the difficult situation and circumstances. We live in very difficult circumstances and that's just a reality. Regarding the concrete, I think it's very ironic that we're discussing this on Highland Radio, which is really the homeland of Micah, where there are so many people with their houses in such terrible conditions. And here we're talking about putting on a levee. My attitude is that the government should first be paying for the restoration of these houses or the rebuilding of these houses before they even go down that road. For Donahoe, all people we should be saying no concrete level until we get our Micah houses fixed. That's the first thing. The second thing, go back to this morning when you were having breakfast and look at the children that you put out to school, maybe put a bag on their back or your grandchild that has a grandparent that is looking after a child today. What we've done with this concrete level is we've put a debt somewhere between four, five, six thousand pounds on their shoulders for the future of their houses. So if they wish to build a house in years to come, they're going to be paying for the sins of past generations. And you know, Daniel O'Connell, there's nothing politically correct by what is morally wrong. I think this is morally wrong. We are pushing the problem onto the shoulders of children and people that have yet to build their houses. Yeah, but the insult, the insult to the injury is that Leo Veracar, who's soon to be T-Shock, is frustrated that no one has been held to account to this. I mean, that doesn't bottle the parsnips. The banks are riding off into the sunset, scot-free, another bailout for the banks, insurance companies, other areas of the industry where you would hope this would be called are facing no sanction at all. It is the people who are bearing all of this cost. And the insult to the injury particularly for me is that this eats into the grants available for people with at least give them an exemption. If you're rebuilding a house, however that might be exempt them from the levy, at least it might be palatable if this scheme ever actually begins to start fixing houses. Well, the thing that gets me is that it seems to have across all political parties, even the opposition, are in agreement about this concrete levy. And again, this is back to the morality of the judgments. And it'd be interesting just from Marion's point of view, I know she'd understand the rural TDs and whatever group she's in, you know, what their perspective is off this year, considering rural Ireland, housing is so important to us. And here we're just telling young people now, you're going to pay for the Micah or whatever else. And then the other question is, when this is put on, would it ever be taken off? Well, this game is going to be four or five billion. And if you're raking in 80 to 100 million a year, presumably you don't say, right, well, we've taken in 800 million, that'll do. You keep going. And I think there's a general acceptance that this is, this is a long haul situation. You mentioned Deputy Marion Harkin as an independent TD. Let's get her views right now. Well, good morning. And I suppose the first thing I would say is that this was a shock to keep them. Nobody expected this. It's a small amount, 80 million, of course, is a large sum of money to the ordinary person. But in the scheme of thing, and in the scheme of the cost of the remediation for Micah, for Pirate, and for other buildings, not just Micah and Pirate, that people are living in. I mean, we get emails from people who live in apartments in Dublin about their apartments and how badly they're being finished, et cetera. So we're looking at a national issue here. The amount is very little. And I just wonder myself, if this is more something for the optics, rather than something that actually will help to fund, we would, we do know, for example, that the Green Party would see with justification that that concrete, as far as climate change is concerned, is quite problematic. And perhaps the, this charge, if you like, may go towards alleviating their conscience somewhat. Like never waste a good crisis. Let's use the crisis of Micah to progress our green agenda. I'm not sure why this is there. It's not really going to make any significant contribution to. Well, then, let me put it to you then. Is it a PR exercise? Do you look at your voting base and you say, right, the most of the people voting for us are maybe middle higher income people who are homeowners, who are paid off that they might have to pick up this bill. And this will talk to them. And this might maybe, you know, as we approach an election, this might take the edge off things for them. I mean, could that possibly be the motivation? I don't really think so, Greg, in all honesty, because I said the amount is very little in the scheme of things. I think it's personally, I think it's there for the optics. I don't see the point of it. It is going to, depending on who you listen to, it'll at minimum add 15, 1600 up to 4000 on new homes. And people then feel, I am paying for what quality owners, those who supply the blocks, all of those in that system, I'm paying for their mistakes. And in some cases, for, shall we say, dubious practices, I don't want to go Yeah, but Marion, is it even more remarkable? Let's just say, for instance, there was an abundance of housing or even adequate housing. Or let's say, for instance, that young people weren't struggling to get on the property ladder or even could aspire to ever own a home. Maybe at that point, you could say, right, okay. But it just seems really bizarre to me, and I've made this point before and sorry to repeat myself to regular listeners. It's a bizarre tax or levy to introduce at the worst point of a housing crisis. Yeah, that's it makes no sense. And it's small. So if you look at the fact that it will annoy people and rightly so, because of the circumstances we are in, regarding the shortage of homes, or the unavailability of homes for many people, the level of homelessness, etc. And when you look at the small amounts in the greater scheme of things that it delivers, you ask, why was this put in place? And I think I heard yesterday, though I'm open to correction, some slight going back on behalf of government, saying, well, perhaps we look at this again. I think they will. I think it won't deliver anything for them. I think it maybe I think what you might be referring to is a little bit of the muddying in the waters in that Leo Varadkar said that look, this will require legislative change. It'll have to go through pre ledge. That being said, the multimillion euro scheme itself didn't. And at that point, it can be teased out and worked on and blah, blah, blah, blah.  But that didn't work because as I say, you know, 11 billion euro budget and an 80 million euro measures on the front of all the papers. Well, can I just say one thing? I think it was probably an effort by those who drafted the budget to say this is going to cost a lot of money. Somebody has to pay for it. Now we all know that, but the question always comes down to who is the somebody who has to pay for it. And this measure, I believe maybe changed, I think should be changed, because it doesn't deliver any real amount in the context of what's needed. It penalizes those who are struggling the hardest to get on the property ladder. And it's just nothing good about this announcement. And I would argue that some of the most active that some of the greatest activity in housing in the Commonwealth will be social housing, perhaps, do you know what I mean? So it's, you know, ironically, that that's they're probably going to bear the brunt of it themselves. Father John Joe Duffy, great to see you again. Thank you, Greg. Likewise. What's your view on this? Well, my view on it is that I think I think it's wrong to heap more costs on younger couples and couples of all ages and people of all ages rather, who are building homes are already so many extra costs from soil analysis right through to planning and so on. And costs are going up and it is a very difficult time. And we're trying to encourage people to build their homes at this time. But equally that being said, money has to come from somewhere to meet this at least six billion. And what should be met as quickly as possible. And they can imagine people and make a homes this morning and how they're suffering and the fear and we see the mess that is. But the reality of it is, I suppose, in this country, we have had levies. We have had levies on our insurance for years. But Joe Kelly says about the children going out this morning will be the people paying for it. And he's absolutely right. And their children will be paying for it. And the question is, do you put a levy on profit or product? In this instance, they're putting it on the product on the concrete. I think the levy would be more appropriate to be put on the profit, such as when houses are being sold, that that might be the place to have the levy, particularly the sale of holiday homes and so on, that there should be a levy put on those, those type of sales. And I think it should be a profit based rather than a product based because building is so very expensive as it is. Yeah, it kind of went under the radar this week, to some extent, at least on this program, because of everything else that was going on. But counselors in Donegal decided to having already agreed the last time a 15% increase in the local property tax, they decided to keep it as is to remain to keep the status quo. Now, this is the only real impact on the public's pocket that our local representatives, and I want them to correction on this really have any say in, I don't know what the public was saying during the public consultation, that information, I don't know what happens to that, does it fall into the abyss? I don't know. I don't know what the public were thinking, but the counselors themselves said, I don't know if it was at odds with what the public think, but they decided themselves to retain this LPT. What's your views on that, Father Junjo? Can you see, we know we're not getting services like bins and stuff from that, but the money is used for matchfunding projects and what have you, that's the value of it. But at this time, do you think the counselors should have used the only real power they have in terms of taxation to give the homeowner a bit of a break here? Well, the LPT, as far as I understand it, is set at the national level. And then each county council has the option of increasing that by 15% or decreasing it by 15%. Yeah, we should have seen the public consultation that should have been made available. I'm not sure if it was or it wasn't. May need to be completely honest. Yeah, so it would have been good to see that absolutely, Greg. And also it's very necessary for the council to explain to us in a very visible way where this money is going. So I don't know where the money is going exactly or into what projects, but if the council could show us in a very concrete way where this money is going, I think it would be less painful. Well, there'd be a 10%, there'd be a 10% levy on that father John Cho if they told us in a concrete way. Marianne Harkin, what's your view? Well, I wasn't aware of the decision made by the County Council until now, but I can fully understand it because with the cost of living crisis at the moment and the local property tax is looming already for people, they'll be wondering how are they going to pay it. I think that for any local authority member to decide that they were going to increase that tax in the current situation, I mean both politically, to be honest with you, Greg, but also really from the point of view. Yes, but it also could have been reduced by 15% Marianne. That's true, of course. Yes, I've forgotten that. I was never actually on a local council, on a county council, so I'm not as familiar with the working of the council as I might be, but you are correct. I suppose they're looking at the services they provide with this money. They know that central government is very slow and sometimes just simply will not make up any shortfall in the kind of services that councillors have to provide. So I suppose to be fair to your councillors, on one level they are very aware of the impact this has on the ordinary homeowner and family and householder, but equally they know that many people will be asking them to provide certain services and let's say adapting people's homes or roads or whatever and that money has to come from somewhere. So I suppose maintaining the status quo was a way for doing it. Yeah, and there's an equalisation element to it as well and we don't know what ramifications of 15% reduction might have had in that regard. So to kind of can understand it, I think Dr Joe Kelly, what's your view? I think our councillors have always been very reasonable and aware of who it is that's living in this county and the challenges that we have and I think they've been very very fair with regards to increases when it comes to local property tax and they haven't necessarily gone the way other county councillors councils have, but having said that, the question is it's not so much what the county council does with this money because I have no doubt that the county council, as county councils go, we have one of the best county councils I believe in the country, the left and right of the country. We have an unbelievable system of county council. The problem is how much is central government giving us and are they off the opinion that if we're getting so much say a couple of million raised by local property tax that's a couple of million less, we have to give Donegal county council. So in a way the county council and the officials and the councils have been hamstrung by a policy that's meant to liberate them to have this little bit of extra income to leverage more money to invest in our county to make our quality of lives better services better and I've no doubt that's the intention but the question then is where are we with central government funding and the other question then to be asked as well is take example the Dublin where there's far more properties where there is far more higher rate because the houses are more valuable therefore there's more income in their pot than in our pot. Well we get some of their pot you see that's why this is a little bit controversial. I understand that and they say that's what comes from central funding. You know look at Just Donegal look at the size of it look at the road network and look at the water service that have to be provided you know again and it's not that I want to be critical of the government or any other oppositions or anybody else but we are a very unique rural county a very large county. We kind of do sometimes have an expectation for every service to be at our door as well. I don't think so I mean I think we've no I think we were very very fair I mean we have not been given the same look look at the statistics every county in the six counties have increased in population since 1921 and it's only recently that our population has started to go up and done equal. We've been very much and it's it's the old mantra we're on the high intent and all that but we are and it's not that we have high expectations we only expect what everybody else expects. We do have rural networks we do have water schemes we do need electrification we need broadband these are things that everybody else in the breadth of the country have an expectation of normality. Marie did you want to come in there? Yeah just to jump in on that a little bit I can remember when I started out a long time ago and developing the west and as you said that's not today nor yesterday I remember hearing those arguments oh yeah you're looking for a Lewis from Kilchima to Claire Morrison you want a hospital at every crossroads and you want the same elsewhere people do not people do expect a basic level of services nobody in Donegal apart from perhaps if you live in one of the very larger towns nobody is expecting that a bus is going to pass their door every hour or every two hours they're quite prepared to accept we live in a more rural country we need a decent service we need a service that brings us to work but we don't need us and perhaps to the local town or whatever but we don't need it at the same level at the same rate as elsewhere and you know I think people understand that so they're not looking for the same level of services as elsewhere in certainly when it comes to transport roads etc but they do want some kind of a decent service and I think they that's you know the idea that central government some years back said right the local property tax is for the county councils so they were divesting themselves of the responsibility to look at the provision of service in those in those areas to some extent now they still provide money for local roads etc but it was definitely look back on the history of this it was definitely a move to say right we'll give you a certain amount we'll give you a certain amount of influence over how much this is and then that's it we turn our back on the responsibility so I think it's important to be even handed here a hundred percent that's what we have so many guests on on a Friday morning maybe this is going off in the tangent but that's perfectly acceptable as well go ahead thank you when talking of services one of the services that's causing a lot of difficulty at the moment is the service of school transport where children had tickets last year they haven't been given tickets this year and those that had tickets last year some of them only have concessionary tickets and others have no tickets at all so the families that are asked to pay this rate of local property tax and so on at a time of rampant inflation is very difficult for them but they're facing many other difficulties as such as trying to get their children to school I was just talking to a parent the other day and either her or her husband will have to give up their job in order to provide transport to get their children to school they had tickets every year up to this year but don't have them this year so there is a lot of pain for families out there and it's difficult but yes we we know the council have to do their best to provide these services as well but it is difficult for families at the moment okay father John Joe thank you back from with more from father John Joe Joe Kelly and Marion Harkin deputy after these GA club development draw 40 000 year-old prizes 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it's a policy of integration and they feel that in some cases at least the teacher's attention is perhaps being drawn trying to even just maybe teach basic english to some of the ukrainian students at the detrimental detriment of the rest of the class now this is a it's a very very difficult father john joe doffy we're not going to dwell too long on this one i'm just wondering is this anything that you've had expressed to to you is it is it just a byproduct of of what we have to do or have you a view on this more generally i i haven't heard anything about it to be quite honest with you we don't have any ukrainians in our schools here locally at the moment so so i will be speaking in a complete vacuum if i were to not that's perfectly okay i don't know is it fair to put that question to you uh joe kerry i understand if it's not because i know you're working in your school so if it's if it's if it's difficult for you to answer i fully understand that because as i say it's just texts that are coming in this morning i know i think it's a very very fair question and it's a fair question that we put to me being being a teacher maybe being an educational feeling being aware of of the challenges that this creates the first thing is that our whole education system is under stress with se and special education needs and i know the government has provided more sna's um but it is certainly a problem that we have just even looking after i always children at the beginning of of this time even before the war that there is that challenge and we're trying very very hard to come to terms with what different types of educational resources and what needs that children have coming say into our secondary schools or into our national schools and what is in place so look that's already there and now on top of that you have more children coming into the education system with needs as well and particularly language needs uh and i just wonder how they have have the department of education i mean obviously they've been handed this over to the by the government have they taught this out fairly well in the sense that language other language assistance being provided is there extra resources going into that could it be possible that there are teachers that are qualified from Ukraine that could be brought into our education system and that could be employed to work with these Ukrainian students um because to expect the teachers to have to deal with what they already have in front of them and then more children coming in with more needs and one cannot ignore the fact that when you're teaching i mean we have to be very very aware of who we're teaching and the needs they have and to carry on as if they're not there isn't good enough either so i mean i think the department of education is not in favour of segregating in the classroom whereby maybe to try and you know improve the language of the Ukrainians but also do we not have to consider that hopefully at some point um as is the desire of many the Ukrainians will will want to move to home with peace can be found there and i wonder you know do we are we considering what disruption that might have to their education you know when they're their later life as to how we're approaching it here well i think that in sincerity i mean they're coming to our schools we're going to try to facilitate them as best we can every teachers will do that every management system is going to try to do that but the reality is that while they are here and we have to look at why they are here are we honestly helping them by putting them into the normal classrooms environment where maybe they have no english it might be alright to use the word diversity and inclusivity but maybe that is actually helping them where they maybe do not have the language but i want to talk to them about the impact on then the students who are facing in some important exams maybe the junior search or the leaving search and and and we have been contacted by a couple of students and as i say they are acutely aware of the sensitivity of this topic but they we have had the testimony from a couple of people that they feel that they aren't getting the educational attention because the attention is being drawn onto trying to help the ukrainians and people from other nations i'm sure as well to to catch up but and that's perhaps always been there to some extent but in the first two three four weeks of school it's it's very noticeable to them absolutely and in particular if your child is trying to get points to get into a course into a leaving certainty some school have more ukrainian students in their class than others there's a competitive disadvantage long term for our children that are going to do the leaving search these are our realistic concerns and realistic problems i don't know the solution but it needs to be discussed it needs to be given far more consideration i think that it's just a stop fill measure at the moment and again i think this is back to the department needing to have the department of education need to set up a specific unit where they are going to actually address and have a certain number of criteria and how they're going to resource it and have this up and running before we go into the next academic but in the meantime they have to start bringing in some kind of policies and it's not just good enough to just um think that they can go into the normal class system and that that will be okay and that the teacher who is already teachers are already um under pressure trying to deliver a curriculum and on top of that curriculum and there's a lot of changes in our curriculum i mean there's a new junior certain in place and the same they're going to plan for the leaving search if you go to the national school there's a new curriculum there as well and they're under stress trying to deliver this as is at the moment and the question i would have is what supports is it just a matter and i think believe this is what's happened they've just been put into classrooms and you know what you go and sort it out yourselves teachers or schools and i don't believe that the proper processes proper supports have been put in place and i just wonder i mean i don't know but i wonder how much has a department of education been in touch with teachers themselves and the experiences they're having and the challenges they are having and what are they aware of and likewise for the ukrainian students what challenges are they having and what's been done to help assist them as best can it's a very very um you have to be careful how you how you speak about it because we do understand that there there's a crisis these are the conversations that i think we should be having out in front and not behind closed doors and people can't be accused of being this that or done because you know because we're having these conversations let's not forget through covid one of the big conversation was any disruption to a child's school life the impact it could have on them so we can't sort of cherry pick because it might be an awkward or difficult conversation and marion harkin it's not one really i'm sure is being had on the floor of the door and i think maybe the powers that be need to try and reconnect with the population uh on these issues because if they don't if they don't it it's it is promoting a feeling of of anger you know you're right and and you're more than right actually and we haven't had those conversations and i think part of the reason straight up is people are are afraid because it's nice in places and people are very careful of the language they use will a particular phrase be taken out of context or even in context will it sound wrong how do we navigate um a very delicate a very difficult uh conversation and i think the issue that you brought up this morning and i'm glad we're discussing it it's not an easy discussion but i was a teacher myself and i know that you're instant when you go into a classroom is to give more attention to those who need your help most that's that's a natural human reaction and i suspect most teachers act in that way so if it's any child who has a need that's above and beyond or different to other members of the class you you can't forget that because you know that if you do that that child just sits there and regresses so that then comes to the question of how do we manage that best and um i agree with joe the department i'm not saying to wash their hands because i'm i'm not fully okay with the measures they've taken and i do know they have taken certain measures but what about and i again i know there are english classes after school but things like that need to be structured i know in certain cases that's down to communities and voluntary effort by people the department needs to structure that because the sooner that those students can be absorbed into the mainstream the better for them and the better for everybody else and uh schools i'm not sure what direct connections they have with the department to get the kind of resources they need but you and i know that even if those are very clearly laid out and articulated it can take a long time to get them and it can take real time and also this is a very big decision as to who how we handle this is it being discussed are the ramifications uh being considered are schools or teachers being invited to give their feedback you know because this is who's making this decision what's happening here you know father john joe i i don't i i i i agree with the two speakers and the points in the area to particularly in that whole area that there has been a lack of consultation a lack of discussion even if the ukrainians came speaking english they're coming from a totally different background with a totally different curriculum to set and to try and set into the iris system but i think this this question points to a far greater problem and that is the lack of resources and the lack of help that's been given to teachers and it goes beyond the ukrainians back in 2011 we had english language teachers to help children coming from other countries so it's this problem hasn't arisen today or yesterday but there's a rising probability and again father john joe and i i yeah and again i understand and that would help bring bring on uh say for instance ukrainian students or wherever them from but i i do want to recognize uh parents whose students are either irish or have been here for a long time what they're feeling and what the students are feeling on the impact it is actually having on on them do you know what i mean rather than saying look every time you mention something like this is look look where they're fleeing from it's a war situation we have to do everything we can but we do also have to we do also have to say the impact of what we're doing is there a better way of doing it and what is the impact on people studying for very important exams for them i think dr joe kelly is absolutely right that there needs to be a specific unit set up by the department and there needs to be greater consultation with teachers on the ground to see how uh we can best do this and putting children from any country including ukraine into the mainstream class situation and great numbers has to have a detrimental effect on those that are already there and that it'll there's going to be a difficulty a difficulty with language difficulty with the different curriculum and maybe it's not the best way for either the ukrainian children or the children that are there and there has been a lack of discussion and there there is a need for that discussion there's a need for major resourcing which i haven't seen and a need for major resourcing as well for our own children for example during the covid speech therapy went by the you know there was no face to face and the only face to face the children were getting was in the school so not only does education need to step up to the mark with regard to helping best helping the ukrainian children best helping our own children but it needs to stand up and help children with particular needs and that's they're being failed very much and we have the highest that's supposed to be welcomed that there was a reduction and the amount of students per teacher in the budget of one point but we have we have the highest class i don't understand how i don't understand father john joe i don't know how given how the population in our school has has developed over the last number of months i don't know how or what time frame they're talking about reducing the parent student ratio in in in real terms marina do you want to come back in on that before a break did i see you just yeah it's just i think this discussion is really important and i i i actually mean that because you are absolutely right if this isn't disgusting people are beginning to feel small resentments and they built then then that's some point that explodes into something else if it's not discussed or dealt with and we are not at least i maybe i've missed it and if i have i put up my hand but we are not dealing with this in a measured reasonable way in in all air now perhaps the education committee is and i'm not aware of but as an ordinary td i think do you know why i think it's not being dealt with because we had i think i don't want to miss quote him and cause any issues again but we had um a deputy park mcgloughlin on this program we were talking about housing uh and in a in a two or three minute answer he uh effectively said we have to of course do everything we have want to to help the ukrainians but we also have to make sure that we are uh looking after the irish people now that was it in a nutshell it was very very clear that you know it we were we're not to shirk our responsibility to these refugees but it was picked up on it was clipped from this program without our permission uh and it was sent around and the papers picked up on it twitter picked up and as you can imagine and it turned into this oh well you know i don't want to use the words but you can imagine what kind of comments were being made and i think that's why people are pussyfooting around this issue because they can't structure the sentences without fear of being upsetting people being cancelled yeah you're right people are it's really nice and people are concerned and i i saw what happened with corrigan i saw your explanation where you you tried to put out there what was actually just the full clip but can i just say one thing here sometimes and i could run myself into trouble but but i believe this and we need to be careful that the the perfect doesn't become the enemy of the good in other words i hear sometimes we're not doing this we're not doing that we're not doing the other this is a refugee crisis this is something unprecedented we cannot do everything perfectly immediately yes we have to do our best but that's that's the best we can do and we cannot expect that our response will allow people coming here to begin to lead their lives in a way of course marion but do you think do you think the public by by way of anything official have ever been informed fully of say for instance the the cost structure for housing Ukrainians how much they might receive in benefits do they have access to medical cards do they receive money for food uh you know explain the fact that some refugees may be poor other refugees may be quite wealthy and have brought their cars here are they being treated differently like if this kind of information was relayed and had out in the open i think it would be far more beneficial and then you know your your uh perfect being the enemy of the the whatever the phrase was do you know what i mean yes the goods yeah but but we'd have all the information yes i i hear what you're saying and and yes not too many refugees i'd say i have some of course have money if they have inherited and family wealth but but most people who flee and are with their toes on their back and they've often left family members at home so it's a difficult situation but i think one of the things that concerns me is that you know we have different organizations saying we have to do this this is not good enough and all of that is right but you have ordinary people sitting at home as you say and your students coming on to you saying right that's grand for you sitting in your office telling us this but i'm in a classroom in location a there's an issue here my child is not getting the attention they need and so we have to open up that discussion we have to be honest with people because as i said um if nothing else if festers resentment and that's beginning to fester i've heard it i won't deny it and i try to you know the thing that the thing that the government received a report maybe six to eight weeks ago which stated to them it was an independent body that this is exactly what would happen that anti-refugee sentiment would grow in the country they would told that but they didn't get out in front of it we started with you on this issue joe kelly just something the Department of Education and our education system hasn't the last 10 15 years talking about the integrity of the school day that we get our right amounts of teaching days done every year and we're not using excuses to have half days here and there that there's an integrity in the school year and like some of the parents that have been contacting you there also must be no questions about it and integrity in the quality of education that we deliver to Irish children that's what the education system's about it's about providing a quality education and a standard of education that every child in this country is entitled to and there should be no movement away from that founding principle and if that's not happening then the department needs to ask the question why is it not happening children their education should not be compromised and if for example with the Ukrainians or any other people coming in we've had refugees and we've had different cultures coming into different classes in no letter Kenny you had somebody on before there was 40 different nationalities in one national school in in letter Kenny these are realities in which we live in but the integrity of education must always be upheld and therefore this is where I think the question needs to be put back are our children is the quality of education being lessened because of what's been imposed at the moment and if the question is yes then what are we going to do about it to ensure that the integrity of the delivery of education and I I do not for one minute think the teachers or management are not trying their best but you know what you're going to do you're going to burn them out yeah but they're also in a category that it's very difficult for them to perhaps express what they are observing do you know what I mean not a deep felt feeling or anti anything but what am I observing I am finding that and so on and so forth how do you say that who do you say it to and again that's right and then John Joe had a pointed out as well as where maybe the department should have a special unit trying to do this and this isn't dealing with these Europeans this isn't today or yesterday that this became a problem because of the Ukrainians coming in this has been an issue long term and the question needs to be asked is what is the quality of education we lost out with covid and that affected our children's education so much so that the national council curriculum assessment and other bodies have they've changed the examination papers to give more choice because they haven't had covered the same content this then automatically means that the quality of the standard has come down a little bit and so what is that what we're agreeing to hear that we're going to drop down the quality of our education or are we going to keep an integrity to our education and then try to fit everything else around that and I think that's the way it should be as a teacher I would like to think that there is a standard of education that every child is given in this country and that we don't move from that standard but that I that's that's fair that's fair but I think some of that would be fair to all children and fulfill our responsibility but not many people would be brave enough to say what you've just said that's the thing but the thing is then all these other things that that affect that need to be addressed the issue isn't the quality of education the issue is what is affecting the quality of education either we have a standard of education either we have a leave in certain junior cert that works or we don't and is it something that we just turn up and down as we need it no and I would be committed as a teacher to give them the best I can as I'm sure every other teacher is to my students that I teach and this is not something that you just turn up and down and we're going to have a lesser leave in cert this year or a lesser junior cert and then because of the circumstances we were in there has to be a standard and the quality and everything else moves above or below that and if there's extra resources required then they're provided if there's extra s nas or language assistance provided and I mean it's just involve a little bit of imagination and I say I know of some Ukrainian people that are in our country that are qualified teachers and what has the department done to and then recruit them and bringing them into our schools where that would actually support an an ancillary system that are already in place and encourage the students to to be more engaged and you're right Ukrainian students will be going back to Ukraine and when the war is over whenever that may be what are they going back to having left an education system is here and again I don't know if that has been addressed by the department is there an argument that there should be a continuation of their curriculum whatever that might have been in Ukraine that's the point I was I was I was trying to make but again you feel you have to use your words so carefully and that's understandable too we have to because I don't I don't want to offend anybody at all and I don't want to give the wrong impression of the tone of this conversation either but Marion and lastly really because the time is the problem is as well we've discussed education a lot of I could phrase a lot of words similarly and move it to housing I'm not sure what you're asking me there no but one of our point is is what a point is is the the clumsy way in and how we're dealing with with that situation as well is creating the same same kind of of emotion so we don't have the time to get into that but it is time isn't it I think that these conversations we had in on the floor of the doll in an adult and grown-up way we all can accept we all can accept the tone and motivation of them yeah but let's see them we're having the difficult conversation let's not shy away from it if you are to have that conversation then people all people have to be measured but have to try and be honest and reflect what they hear but leave their own prejudices outside the door I mean there are solutions and I listen carefully to what Joe was saying what he said in the last intervention in particular and he's absolutely right and you know there should be a unit within the department that manages that whether they're Ukrainian teachers or whatever but when it comes to fairness I just one thing struck me as we were talking there remember the the Q jumping and the trouble that that Holly Willoughby and Phil whatever his name was got into and for the queen when they were jumped the queue as such but that's another story according to ITV they didn't but there was massive uncontrolled anger at that because people like to feel that if you're in the queue you take your place and your weight and people need to know and see that's happening because if there's any sense and I mean any sense that any group of people and I'm not saying they are but if there's any sense that that's happening or that they're special treatment that's what drives people bananas there are people who would jump on the bandwagon whose views I would not support at all but it's much easier to put forward those views if the system that's in place but a lot of the people that would the people contacting us now I'll give you the last word Father John Joe if that's okay to be fair the people could contact us do not have a racist or xenophobic bone in their body and these are the same people that have been fundraising and run sports clubs and accept them in I'm sure do you know what I'm on about and I have no doubt and I understand exactly what what Deputy Hawkins referencing but these aren't people they just see an unfairness last word to you Father John Joe well it's an unfairness to to all concerns is also an unfairness to the Ukrainians if we can't give them a system that that fits that fits for that that suits them Dr Kelly's a hundred percent right in that are there teachers out there that that special unit needs to be set up but aren't we doing things all in a very peace middle way and in a clumsy way we started off about the the levy we looked at the way education and the lack of consultation you're brought into houses how come in the 1930s Fairview and Marina were built in the 1950s Artein and Sanctuary where 2000 houses were let out in the 50s and one week period for social housing and that's been done also in a peace middle way but a discussion for another day yeah indeed we need joint we need joint up thinking we need supports and we need consultation with the people on the ground and we need our politicians talking about what the public are talking about too I think Father John Joe thank you very much for your time I appreciate it great to have you back in the show great to see you Deputy Marion 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air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning i'm mckayla clark with the news at 10 o'clock the housing minister says the state is using every legal avenue available to go after those responsible for defective building blocks the government introduced a 10% levy on concrete in tuesday's budget to help fund the mica and pyrite remediation scheme tonnage to leo broadcaster earner this week said he's frustrated there have been no prosecutions of people responsible for the scandal minister dar o brian says the government is chasing the suppliers we're looking at using any legal avenue available to us to go after those very people at the tonnage dimension who've been operating for the last 10 or 12 years so this isn't a new event uh you know that that that the people who who provided defective blocks like they have absolutely uh i believe them our responsibility but legally we will see what we can do unfortunately many of those companies at the tonnage to will now fold it donnie gall priest is urging donnie gall county council to outline in a very clear and visible way by money raised through the local property tax is spent this week the council voted to retain lpt at current levels a decision which has led to some debate supporters say the lpt has not increased opponents say each year the tax reverts to the baseline and the council has adopted a 15 percent increase as it has every year since 2019 officials say the money is necessary to fund vital services but in today's nine to nine show father john joe duffy asked them to spell out what those services are we should have seen the public consultation that should have been made available also it's very necessary for the council to explain to us in a very visible way where this money is going so i i don't know where the money is going exactly or into what pro projects but if the council could show us in a very concrete way where this money is going i think it would be less painful after three days after bait on this week's budget the door sits adjourned until next week but many tds are still seeking changes and tweaks one of the measures announced in the budget was the scrapping of the preferential battery for hotels and hospitality businesses from april next year one of the reasons cited before the budget for that move was the perception that hotels in dublin have been indulging in price-guiding ever side stunning all td marion harkin says because of the weaknesses of sterling the measure will have a disproportionate impact on the border countries tourism businesses in the northern and western region have to compete with a much more competitive sector in northern ireland and if we pile on a 50 percent increase in vat some businesses won't be able to take the escalating costs so i'm making a strong case that for at least the next 12 to 18 months the government would maintain a nine percent on hospitality and tourism it would be a crucial intervention in the border countries fina falls iris our dash begins today with speculation rife about the future of miho martin as party leader it comes ahead of the planned rotation of the position of t-shock in december political correspondent shonda foe reports this or dash comes at the end of a politically busy week in miho martin may be hoping the biggest budget spend in the history of the state will delay talk about his future as party leader but while he's been dealing with the business of government discontent in fina falls been rising many on the back benches of the doll and at the grass roots of the party feel disconnected from the decision-making in government they feel that while miho martin's been dealing with the issues of his office he's neglected his role as fina fall leader there's also a certain frustration that none of the prospective candidates to replace him have put up their hand to actually challenge for the leadership some tds wonder if that will come this weekend and whether a challenger could use the or dash as a launching post but all comers will be wary of the old adage he who wields the knife rarely wears the crown and finally pyre has been restored to most properties in the dairy beg area almost type 2000 homes and businesses were revived pyre earlier this morning a small number are still affected and esb says the supply will be restored before 12 noon weather night went down windy this morning with widespread heavy rain and squally downpours leading to a risk of spot flooding and dangerous road conditions rain will clear later this morning to sunny spells and showers with highest temperatures today of 14 to 15 degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the abit notices for this friday morning the 30th of september the death has taken place of john o'neill uncle house malon head funeral arrangements will be confirmed later the death has taken place of james mossy 190 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highland radio dot com the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio okay a big thanks once again to father john joe doffey deputy marion harkin and dr joe kelly thank you all of you too for texting in a caller says well don dr kelly but also remember that our special needs children are bossed into letter kenny okile begs for schooling so maybe dedicated schools should be established in vec halls around the country employ ukrainian teachers and support them with english teachers it does not take rocket science to fix this issue at no cost should we further stress our bulging education system for our own irish pupils that's a mary tisweenian aintu rep dear greg rather than us criticizing the ukrainians we should be glad that we are saving them from mass graves we have a housing crisis because we continue to elect poor politicians and that's coming in from peg peg i thought well i would hope sorry that the tone of the conversation was um was struck correctly this is not about criticizing ukrainians there was not one word of criticism towards ukrainians in our last segment that being said there are parents of students who are irish or living in ireland for some time however they might identify themselves who are facing into very important exams and um some students and their parents feel that they're falling behind already even a couple of weeks into the new year so to elevate their concerns is to not in any way um amplify anything anti-ukrain or even to to be anti-ukrainian that is not the conversation we're having and i think from that comment and i understand it fully peg i'm not having to go it goes to show that no no matter how careful you are no matter how careful you are it can sound like um something other than what you mean uh good morning would it be an idea for the teachers that are here from the ukraine on social welfare payments not put themselves forward to help in the schools also could demand that i hear on social welfare not do community workloads that need done in every community painting buildings etc another caller said we've spent two years with off and on homeschooling we should be able to set up a system with ukrainian teachers for remote learning maybe with a blend of some class time maybe they need taught their own curriculum in their own language which arguably you know as they say hasn't been discussed it might be better for them another caller says greg any listener that claims ukrainian children are taking the teachers time away from the class of bigots no excuses that's one person's view i can assure you the people contacting us aren't bigoted a lot of the you know the messages and uh or the phone calls that we receive it's uh i'm glad we are doing what we are doing we should be doing it perhaps we could do more but my concern for my child is um and you know how protective parents and guardians can be of their children it's understandable i think forgive me if i'm being naive or even downright stupid but surely there are ukrainians that have a good level of english and could maybe be brought in to assist the ukrainian children in learning the language and i'm sure there's many ukrainian children that language is not an issue uh public consultations and similar gatherings are laid out in such a way that facilitate the passing of preplanned agenda or outcome topics or box ticking choices are cleverly laid out so that they there can be no expansion or full honest debate and are usually rushed through with the pretense that people agreed i think that's a reference to the public consultation on the lpt uh how does the panel feel about the new sphe curriculum we just didn't get to that and time is very short um that hour goes really really quick um this is the most neglected county in arland donagore counter council is not able to repair roads flooded year on year uh traffic chaos and letter kenny says a caller another i recently spoke to a couple in their 70s who are being charged 2200 for a connection to irish water surely this is not acceptable for a couple at this uh at this age that does not seem fair um but you wonder why quite a few people might connect to the mains without contacting uh the local authority maybe that's why why haven't the assets of the concrete manufacturers or micro affected block been seized opposed to charging the customer well the there's it's complicated this i'm talking countywide not a specific issue but some of the the companies that that may or may not have been involved maybe are different companies now or have are not in business or you know their assets probably wouldn't fix one house by the time you investigated it at all uh there was a number of counselors who voted against keeping it at the same level in one call to have it reduced indeed um but the outcome was the outcome going into specifics if you feel that's useful we we potentially could do that but the unanimous decision even though some might have agreed was for it to be retained at its current level hi greg why don't they put a mica tax on quarry owners like the tax uh they put on us for owning a property but who would pay that tax you see it's always going to be passed on to it's always going to be passed on to the consumer i know students who had offers from nyg they couldn't get accommodation and had to opt for a ucas offer in the north they now aren't eligible for the 1000 euro help from the government and you know we were talking about an incident yesterday a case yesterday about really effectively students um the rent a room scheme is is really open to exploitation we heard yesterday from a parent of a student who effectively um their landlord the homeowner lives in the property as well said that they were putting another student in the room beside them uh and people flabbergasted that this could be the case contact rtb contact this contact the guards name and shame and all that kind of stuff but the problem is is that with the rent a room scheme is that's it's you know i don't think there's any rules against it there's no rules against students um being offered five night accommodation instead of seven i know that's quite acceptable but what i was amazed at was the amount of people that didn't know this kind of stuff goes on that that could not happen i mean look what's going on in housing generally in this country i mean that was that would be the thin edge of the wedge the motivation from such a landlord could be to get the student out to try and leverage for higher rent i mean there's no end of reasons it just takes one individual it's not all landlords it was just one individual to chance their arm but people are like that can't be the case how could that happen you must be making you know um hi was wondering is it legal for a shop to charge 20 extra each time you use your card my daughter uses her card at lunchtime and the shop's adding on 20 extra if paid by the revolut card thank you i haven't heard of this is it legal i think it's a private operation if it's signposted and there's a 20 euro 20 cent charge on that um i don't see how it's illegal is it good for business i don't know um it perhaps wouldn't be but that's uh you know you won't get that with cash maybe the uh maybe the shop owners into cash and wants to encourage young people to use cash could it be that hi greg do you or your listeners know is there a remembrance service this year for baby loss awareness week um someone out there will be able to tell me that i'm sorry i don't know it off the top of my head now hi greg could you tell your panel i'm still paying lpt and my house is rotten with mike i have to pay because i can't afford the engineers report okay so you're not on the scheme so you're still facing the charge uh right and so um they come keep those comments coming into us 08 660 25 000 whatsapps and texts are called 07491 25 000 uh fenula is away this week so noel conningham will be joining michael leddie with all the latest showbid news gossip and talking about all manner of things uh so we look forward to that conversation after 11 we can maybe switch off a little bit from the ever present serious stuff quite potentially uh serious developments in russia we know that valedom mere putin today is going to formally recognize the outcome of the um referenda i so-called referenda that took place in east and south uh ukraine um that will be passed by the upper house next week we don't know the consequences of that might be but uh there's a lot going on a lot to worry about so you know from 11 if it's all right with you we'll get a little bit trivial on it and ease our way into the weekend that way right let's take a break uh and we also have news uh we're also going to be discussing the the um ncbi radio bingo um how much money have you been raising where is that money going um how much money have we given away who have we given it away to those types of things we're going to 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contribution these people have made if there's someone you'd like to nominate visit or is a dot ie the closing date is the 28th of october okie doke welcome back to the program and we welcome on to it now danny cahill national services manager with the national council for the blind of arland for the adult team in the northwest region good morning to uh danny good morning greg great to be here it's good to have you with us and we're also joined by katie mcgee coordinator of highland radio bingo hi katie good morning to you good morning greg thanks very much for both of you giving us your time this morning right okay uh the pingo is mentioned every day of course the numbers go out every day and we talk about how it supports the national council for the blind of arland but i think it's useful really for us to dig a bit deeper in that danny um but before we do and we talk about the relationship with the bingo and the services and what have you talked to me about what the national council for the blind of arland actually does for those not familiar okay well i suppose i suppose the first thing to say apart from a big thank you to everybody in highland radio for for facilitating us and and gathering such such a magnificent sum over the last number of years i suppose we're an organization that primarily is a support organization we're a voluntary organization so we are funded to somewhat by the hse but not fully funded i suppose a lot of organizations come in and tell you that greg which is true um what we do is we we look at people's situations people are referred to us either directly themselves they can self refer or a lot of people are referred by i specialist so that ophthalmologist or an optometrist and people really have got to the stage with with their vision but it really can't be helped with any sort of treatment or or any glasses um and people need to go beyond that so what we would do is we'd bring we bring a person into our service we would look at the issues they have we would try and address those issues with them and we often find that there's a lot of issues that people have because sometimes people look for help over many years many years after that that you know their sight loss has has begun um now just to go again to that i mean obviously for some well for i think for everyone this is incredibly dramatic news that they could receive it could happen it's one of those things too could happen to any of us at any time um so i presume to at the first instance it's an understanding ear you know because i've said it on this program before we're surrounded by people that love us very much but with a diagnosis like this for example or or some very they might not be able to say the right things or understand it quite like an organization like the NCBI might and other people it helps yes i think that's an important maybe the first some of the most important elements of the first contact is it yeah it is because often people will go somewhere either here in st. Carno's or in slago the the eye clinic there and and they may be told Greg as you say they've given some news but often given a diagnosis and for most people it doesn't really mean anything even to be fair to you know to the clinicians there who've explained it to them once as you said you hear that sort of well actually there's probably very little i can do or this is that this is a condition that's going to continue to deteriorate it's very difficult to hear anything else afterwards so really when our first point of contact with people we would look at their eye condition we would look at what the diagnosis is diagnosis is and we often have a good sense of how that's going to progress so the first thing is information so we give them information and not just to them generally to to family members as well because it's really important that family members have a good understanding of that as well it's also about reassurance now that might seem quite strange when you're talking to somebody who maybe not if the starting point is is well my life as i know it is maybe over me but it's what i might be interested in is over so i think from the start perspective that's probably you know people want to hear well what's other people's experience exactly how do they progress and how do they adapt exactly and we would be very clear to people that yet life as you know it is going to change but life as you know it is not over it's just different it just means that you will need some you need some supports to continue to either to continue to do the thing doing the things that you do i mean some people obviously get this news whether it's still unemployment some people get it whether in education or training and a lot of people go obviously get it later on in life there's a lot of conditions that affect people who are 60 plus 65 70 but i mean i suppose as you see our first job is it's about reassurance it's about just giving and giving people time to talk as well because oftentimes and particularly in a clinical setting they really don't have that opportunity because there's so many people to be seen they can't give people the time that they need and questions i wish i asked that question i didn't say that exactly i can't ring them up and go yes yeah okay so now that's sort of the some of the first contacts which is really very useful then i suppose then is the next thing what are the supports are available or what are the work to the ncbi do with yeah yeah i mean i suppose what we do we we actually have an assessment process is broken into two parts the first part is generally over the phone where people can take a call and it's just that that's an initial contact and it's to get people to kind of think of the issues that a lot of people say well how is it we've been often asked well how is it affecting you oh i'm grand um do you drive oh no i've stopped driving are you able to make tea for yourself oh no actually i've stopped doing that oh my my family won't let me do it so get them to think about all the things that they've stopped doing or are afraid to do yes do you go outside you meet with your friends exactly and then we would invite them into our center here we've a center here on the high roads and let her Kenny and then we would actually just look at the practical aspects of how vision loss is affecting them once we've done that and you know we then have an ongoing relationship with them a one-to-one relationship with one of our key workers our community resource workers but then we would also introduce them to well actually there's other people in a similar situation to you everybody's different everybody's unique but the fundamentals are kind of the same aren't they yes the fundamentals are the same and there may be people either an individual or a small group of people who could reassure them COVID has been terrible obviously and a lot of people have lost connections but actually what has allowed us to do or made us do is bring those connections online or you know through teleconferencing whatever so you could you know you could be meeting up with somebody who's another part of the country or other parts of the county and getting around as we know in this county is very difficult but we add in blindness or vision impairment is particularly difficult so that allows connections to be made it allows first and foremost for people to think I'm not alone I'm experiencing this and I might be very angry about it or I might be quite down about it but actually that's a perfectly reasonable like how do I still engage with my mobile phone exactly now yes now obviously it depends on the speed in which this happens okay but that could be you know who how do you find that do you google it what if you're struggling in that regard you know what I mean exactly there's lots of different things how many people in the northwest roughly or donnie gall depends on how specific your figures are does the ncbi work with at the moment well so far I think we just looked it up just we know we're coming on this morning we've worked with just over 300 people just in donnie gall this year and that's of all age groups so so from young young people young children I mean it is a percentage of the population it is it's not insignificant okay now um and we can talk out more and anything that you want to say that I haven't asked jump in as we move forward here but we are talking about the work of the ncbi but we're talking about how you can help but not only about how you can help how you have helped because so far you have raised a quarter of a million euro through the ncbi radio bingo which goes to danie and his team to assist in the services that they provide and maybe we'll sort of start getting some realist not realistic examples some practical examples of of how that money is spent outside of the the supports um that danie's already been mentioning uh and we're also going to be speaking to someone who's been pretty lucky on the bingo and uh katie is going to be joining us well but just to give you an idea of the types of money that has been won over what period of time this is this some recent highlights katie this is only over the last four weeks over the last four weeks right okay because i think sometimes when people we mention cash daily cash prices people might think oh it wasn't one monday so that's it that's gone it's another you know that there's some sort of but this is this is a real money andy's and strunner sold sold a book to a listener who won a thousand euro sweeney's in term an 800 euro the launch box boncran a 600 euro macaferty's gorder hawk 600 euro and we'll give you some more examples uh and as i say we're going to be speaking to someone who's been winning uh as well as katie and more as well from danie but we do have to take a very quick break stay right where you are the nine till noon show with st yunan's g a club development draw 40 000 euro and prizes first prize 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that you know this is about having a bit of fun i'm winning some cash but it's about support and a really uh good cause in the ncbi you're motivated by that part of it too paul aren't you that's what i say like it's not all but one like it's for that's for a good charity you know it's for a good cause like you know what i mean as i say like i'm gonna come stay when i'm finding one book in a training i'm just going to look to get another book for the next week you know and it's just i enjoy playing it too like you know it's i just enjoy it like you know how do you mark the numbers do you do it online or do you listen to it on the radio and mark it with a pen how's it done no well i just mark i just mark a book off and then i just i would go online and just and get the wrinkle numbers and you know and just you know there's nothing you know there's nothing that's nice to when you see when you see one and you go down to the last number and then you just give us a one okay well you've felt that a few times 1200 euro i hope you bought yourself something nice you didn't pay your electricity bill or something did you no no well what's a couple of good things on me so you know here's the other one that's all spent me on it right nothing it doesn't be long going but it's still a nice amount well paul continue playing well done to you and well done for supporting the national council for the blind of arland and as i say hopefully you continue to win big into the future well done well thank you very much hey in the world as the world thank you well done thank you and um katie when i thank uh when i thanked um paul i mean that in earnest because every person that buys a book is supporting the national council for the blind of arland absolutely absolutely and do you know what there's people that go in we're only discussing this before um the interview that go in every week without without fail and they get their couple of books and that's what's making the difference here that's what's bringing in the quarter of a million you know realistically so it's really nice to see people win the money back as well you know 100 and regularly paul isn't the only one who's won a few times so you know you build relationships with these people as well when they're of course because it is it's it's you know i mean thankfully we've we've a really strong relationship here at harland ready but we're not talking an international bingo here either you know what i mean it's a relatively small pool compared to some things you enter where it's sort of uh you know there's an odds of winning sort of a thing so talk to me about how someone plays because you know we have as you mentioned the regulars there and sometimes i wonder if people think bingo is a club or it's something that you sort of need to be in from the beginning of it's not that case at all so you talk to me about where you get your books yeah all of the places or you're never coming on the program again okay this might take till 12 now but go on the books are normally well placed in oh yeah shops post offices shops and post offices actually across the whole of the county so i think there's i think we have 113 locations um we also do the books here as well um anyone who wants to ring in and get the books and i can post it out we do that as well um while we're as easiest for people but yeah we have 113 locations across the county where the people can get the books brilliant so you buy your book it's five euro a euro per day and we always encourage people only to play if you can afford it if it's within your means as well by the way um so you get your book the numbers are read out you mark off what five is it has i i i probably should know i'm not i don't play a lot of bingo that's okay so we first of all this is just going to make it sound so easy right so i'm going to just like you know make the same boss this go fabulous right so there's 45 startup numbers each day on your bingo card right and there's three panels so you mark off your startup numbers first and then there's 10 numbers called out every day as well so you have 55 numbers essentially or potentially you know the 10 daily numbers are random numbers sometimes a wee bit of a crossover but potentially you have 55 numbers to play with there you have three panels so three panels five days 15 chances in one book brilliant and you fill a panel and that's your cash prize you bring in the dedicated bingo line and you leave your claim before 8 p.m. in the evening and i ring in the morning brilliant okay what a way to wake up and also too you talked about the amount of outlets too it's great to have them on board because it couldn't be done without them either but and the logistics of getting all the books out as well too so there's a quite a bit of effort goes into making this happen as well yeah absolutely um Angela has a has a is our bingo book distributor and is that her official title it's uh yeah it's my made up title but they put in fairness you know she was a brilliant job she gets out there and she gets all over the county making sure they all have their books every every month she does that um and um yeah and talks to them their shops are brilliant with feedback all that kind of thing yeah uh we have a great relationship with the shops as well to make sure that um the bingos is because they're doing that but there are all these businesses the 113 businesses your local businesses are in effect to supporting the national council for the blind of island and important to recognize that too i think isn't it yeah absolutely absolutely and they are and they look you know like that the relationship that's built there as well and the dedication to actually making sure that the money is coming in for the for the bingo and that kind of thing too yeah i know during the lockdown when your other fundraising efforts would have been hindered um that this was one of the the most consistent important revenue streams i mean clearly obviously hopefully you're able to out and do other things now but it still remains um one of the the most important revenue streams can you talk to us a little bit about where the money's spent and how it's spent now i'm not looking forward to the camps just some sort of an idea yeah well i'm i suppose we can reassure your listeners and people who play uh the uh highland radio bingo that the money is used to to you talked earlier with me greg about supporting people and giving people that sort of peace of mind as well that that is it does that's the fundamental issue that we deal with but there's a whole range of different services that people in this area donnie gall in particular but across the northwest nationally are able to access and one of the the new initiatives we began was actually the the counseling service as i spoke to you know we often emotional support is really important huge not not everyone needs a qualified counselor but some people do yeah and we we we decided as an organization this was something that we needed to you know to start we needed to give opportunities for people to to speak to people counselors of course generic counselors people who counsel for all sorts of reasons are able to deal with people who are who are losing their sight organ through a net trauma of upside loss but i think we have a particular understanding and knowledge and we can put you in touch with people as well who have that particular unique understanding and also if it is and happens and we'd love to think it doesn't but if it's a younger personal or something transpires in terms of what a person might have been born with for example you know at that point too your support would switch presumably to their caregivers because they have a path to to to walk as well yes um yeah and i think that i think that's very true i think for all ages but i think for particularly i mean as i said earlier it's obviously we're working primarily with the individual but we we actually don't forget the family as well the family is living with this and in some instances particularly if it's a child who has this this this situation that they're they're being diagnosed with a particular condition and they have a good sense that actually their their site is actually going to deteriorate it's often more difficult for the family and those around them often we find that children and as we know children are incredibly resilient but it's actually the people around them who are actually quite concerned so it's it's linking them up with support so peer support so other parents people who've who've gone through it maybe have older children who've gone through prior to them but also more importantly as well for the children to give them outlets they bring them together and oftentimes it's practical supporters around technology as you mentioned and obviously children can do that children can just whiz through it yeah and obviously children who are who are blind and vision impaired can as well with the support or with the technology to require but it's also an opportunity to come together and have a good a good fun time yeah and realize again i'm not alone i'm not the only one who's experiencing this and they build up connections which is really really important Dorothy joins us on the program now as well Dorothy good morning to you hey good morning Greg thank you thank you for giving me this opportunity to say a very very special thanks to the National Council for the Blind especially to the team in the High Road Patricia and the team they have been so good to me for the last four years they helped me in every way at the moment no i can't get any more help because my status at the stage know that everything like that doesn't help anymore but they did set up my ipad for me and my phone it's absolutely brilliant i don't know what i've done without them they were absolutely unbelievable i'd never heard of them until i was getting injections in swigel and somebody said to me why don't you ring the office on the high road i thought that you had to be prepared by a doctor or something for one day i took the initiative and i rang and they sent me and they helped me with reading they helped me with everything i just don't know how you would pay them they were so so good unbelievable and i'm sure a lot of people like it insane what you're saying Dorothy you're helping and and your words are our our our help with macular degeneration to uh obviously that's going to affect your reading and your writing so presumably you've had to adapt as to how you communicate or how you consume your information Dorothy yes that's right i can't read all right anymore um i use i use um sierra on the ipad which they set up for me and i use the google on my phone as well which is very helpful and i don't feel uh have kind of lost everything except for just like being careful when i'm walking just that's all but only for them i don't know what i've done they were so good and i mean so helpful Greg they spent so much time they came out technicians with slaggle that set up the ipad for me and they spent ages with me show me how they do it and how do you work it and i mean they are a great a great organization and i'm sure a lot of people right there don't even know about you know what's going on because when i tell people to say where i say on the high road a little kelly you know and honestly god they deserve all the help that they get because they are so good and even after i was funny to them they still ring up and keep in contact like even during covid we had like uh online meetings which was great like so um i'm still in contact with them and it's a great thing to know that they're there if you need them and that's really important too because as you say you're at the stage now where in terms of any additional sort of assistance or support you've probably exhausted that but that connection is still there so presumably say for instance Dorothy your confidence took a knock in terms of going out or something you can still speak to the NCBI and maybe get some reassurance or some advice that's a nice little safety net for you to have yeah well the way i look at it Greg like all right my vision's not good but it doesn't stop me from going out everything like uh i still go out like i take my grandchild to the cinema even though i don't see the cinema but i take a minute and sit through it and enjoy it like you know so it's um it's just up to yourself like to say like you have to get on with this and when you know that you have that back up there behind you it's great like and if i did thanks be god i have never went down with us like i've just kept positive once they told me until i go that i wasn't going to go blind completely i said wow that's great me you know well your positivity is actually coming through uh in the cold or i can i can pick it up from you and it's lovely to hear and uh it's lovely to hear about you going to the cinema and stuff uh as well which is which is nice and you enjoy it in a different way but your uh your grandchildren still have granny beside them and that's what's the important thing isn't it uh you're still there listen yeah go ahead Dorothy yes i'm delighted for to get this opportunity to say a very very special thanks to the people out there today that the national council from the blind team and i hope everybody keeps doing the bingo um because they are a great help like for people out there and people should use themselves this they should go and look for help because they do help in a big way all right brilliant stuff Dorothy thank you so much for your time and stay so positive Danny the element to this too is is that people uh engage with organizations like the NCBI and others when they're ready uh some of us are like you know i can deal with this myself i don't need any help i've never asked for help in my life and that is fine it's a judgment-free zone don't get me wrong yeah but when people are ready yeah do what Dorothy did make that call and and see if it's for you what help can be gotten maybe you're ahead of where they think you it doesn't matter but reach out and even it's only for that support then that that's that's important yeah i mean to pick up yeah what you say Greg but also with Dorothy i think it's actually a very valid point Dorothy makes there that she really didn't know where to turn to she'd never heard of us and i suppose that's like most organizations you never hear of them until you need them um and it can never be too early i mean if people are have been diagnosed with a particular eye condition there's there's no problem with them contacting doesn't say right now i'm not feeling any effects well we can give them we can send them out information we can just let them know that as as you said Greg that we're here for them and if they decide and when they decide that they actually want to receive services from us um that's good and we take it at people's own pace yeah we don't want to pose anything we we let them know the kind of services that we have and more importantly as Dorothy said there as well that we are support to people you can pick up the phone to us you can drop into us there on the high road we're there to give you support when you're ready and the kind of support that you want as well so all of you out there playing bingo this is a message for you thank you you've raised 250 000 euro for the national council for the blind of Ireland a quarter of a million euro it's really uh significant to the organisation Katie the daily prize is right so explain the structure of this it starts off at 200 euro isn't that right um no it's wrong but that's all right it's my job to know is it more time it's more yeah it's 400 daily prize but but it does increase by 200 if it's not one so in other words monday we start off with 400 right then if it's not one on monday it's six and then it's eight on wednesday yeah and and and eventually that gets one so you want maybe if you if you're lucky enough to win for the first time you want it to have rolled over a couple of days don't you get your six or your eight yeah i mean yeah obviously i'd be happy with four or don't get me wrong oh yeah no absolutely you'd be happy with four but you'd be happier with six okay but yeah yeah no and the thing about it is as well which is worth mentioning is that you know you don't have to because i get an awful lot of callers in going oh i missed the bingo numbers can you get me the bingo numbers you know we do play them throughout the day as you know on air but we do they are posted on HighlandRadio.com for a thing in the morning available for the throughout the whole day and they're also um um recorded on our bingo line as well so that's 9104833 so if anyone wants to ring in that's they will be introduced with the bingo numbers before they're allowed to leave their claim so they're there anyway so they're they're all over the place you know there's no reason yeah advocacy dana is an important element to what the NCBI do too in terms of conversations i've had with yourself and and other reps in terms of you know what life is like out there for visually impaired people yeah you know cars parked on footpaths hedges not being cut back you know stuff that dog poo on the on the footpath this type of stuff and much more than that i'm just picking the kind of the obvious ones yeah you know and that's an important it's important someone's getting that message out there it is and and and we are very keen the as an organization we can talk about those experiences you know all the all the problems that you listed as well there Greg but we actually have people um who use our service they actually speak speak not only for themselves but all the other people who actually who don't speak out and it's really important for us as an organization that we have people who use our service who also are linking in with us but linking it with the local authority whether it's the county council or either a building or as you say the built environment without and about pavements crossing points all those new challenges such as and no harm to the bars and restaurants outdoor seating yes sandwich boards yes it's about erasing awareness so when you're placing something there you go right say it was me yes that was visually impaired what would the consequences of what i'm doing right now be yes for me or my children yes and it's just it's not to guilt people it's just to have people thinking anything you want to add Danny before you wrap up just just to sit just to pick up on the point that Dorothy made there you know how do you contact how do we how do we find us there's two ways the most simple way is actually we have an info line it's a free phone number it's 1-800-911-250 or you can go online ncbi.ie and we have a whole everything that i've spoken about and much more is all there you can make a referral online either for yourself or somebody doesn't your behalf your consent and we have a whole load of different resources there information not only for individuals but for family and professionals we have a whole load of videos there that explain and actually demonstrate the kind of services that we provide pretty much anything and everything is there so it's a great resource Katie from a bingo perspective anything you want to add we just want to encourage people to play and play whenever they want and you don't have to play all the time either by the way we have as you say we've got some amazing regular players and they are regular contributors to the ncbi as much as anything but you can dip in and dip out as it suits you nice little stocking filler nice prezzie absolutely listen if you find yourself in what do you mean listen who do you think you're speaking to i'm going to take your job for these days okay hey hey you baldy as in sure listen you know like it's an irish thing it's a double thing yeah it's a double thing following me out my dublinness but anyway now if you find yourself in one of the retailers and you have an extra fiver throw it at a bingo book could be worth 400 euro to you at the end of the day it's for everyone you know like who doesn't like to win a few quids i love signing checks i love signing checks i better clarify i don't actually sign the checks i just post them out i love posting out checks excellent listen it wasn't it lovely to hear from paul who gets what he's at he's winning but he genuinely feels that he's doing good which is which he isn't it's good and darothy as well i mean what a glowing endorsement of it and we genuinely because it's a bit like hard to this element because we genuinely it's great to be involved isn't it katey do you know what i mean it's great to do something that's that's helping us well and when you look at one quarter of a million euro it's really i think that's really really significant and and you know it's hot money's hard uh raised uh danny isn't it because there's so many competing things and brilliant um charities and organizations so it's it's great that we're uh it's i love us being involved in this personally danie cahill thank you very much for joining us there's nothing you feel you want to add just finally no i know you thank darothy and yeah yeah just get in touch at any time you know when you're ready or when you're ready absolutely yep all right thanks so much indeed danie cahill national services manager with the national council for blind arland for the adult team in the northwest region katey magie coordinator of the highland radio bingo katey's quite a bit of effort where it goes into it's well done to it for what you do uh as well and again now thanks to paul a regular player and also to uh darothy who was able to give us some real life experience uh the jackpot this thursday 11 grand 11 000 euro yep 11 grand this uh thursday if it's not one uh i should mention that but the jackpot prize also goes up by two further 200 euro each if it's not one and the daily price today is um that's correct 400 euro 400 euro brilliant so we had a win yesterday we did have a win yesterday well done um and also stay tuned because from time to time we do little initiatives with non-winning books and stuff and whenever that comes around we'll let people know isn't that right 100 okay listen thank you so much for your time danie thank you very much katey and thanks for being good sports as well i really appreciate it back with the news at 11 after we take a break would you like to win a hunday konokyar well that's the first prize in the st yunans ga club development draw who are sponsors of this week's nine till noon show there's nine other great prizes and tickets are now available online at st yunans ga draw dot com or any club member this weekend at centra it's time to care for your pair because when it comes to 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