The answer is yes. The answer is yes. Tech can help agriculture in Hawaii. We have living proof today with two guys who put the AgTech conference together. There's Jim Wyban and Jason Awakey. Welcome to the show, you guys. Thank you, Jay. Happy to be here. Thank you. So, you know, it's a dream come true in so many ways. I recall once ThinkTech did a lunch and panel program about agriculture, and some guy came from Silicon Valley. And he was really interested, and he pulled me aside, and he said, I want to know more about agriculture and why I want to invest. And I have a hui who wants to invest from Silicon Valley. We're all very rich, as I was so excited. And I sat with him, and sat with him, and sat with him, telling him how great I thought the possibilities were. And after a few weeks of investigation, he came to me, and he said, well, I've investigated, and now I'm going to invest in hotels. Oh, no, no, no. What did we miss here? We have to make it possible for this guy to come back and actually make an investment. Him and his hui, and make a return in agriculture. It's not the old plantations. It's diversified agriculture. It's modern agriculture, and it's tech agriculture. OK, so tell me about your vision of this gym, by then. OK, thank you, Jay. You know, Hawaii has a tremendous agricultural tradition and a long history of innovation in agriculture, going back to the original colonizers, the Polynesians that came to Hawaii, brought with them what we call canoe plants, taro, bananas, coconuts. And they did that. It was very brilliant of them. They did that, so they knew that they would be able to grow food when they finally landed in Hawaii. And ever since then, Hawaii has been an agriculture innovator. And then go all the way up through the plantation era and stuff. And ag was a huge part of the economy at the time. But once the plantation started to close, the amount of the revenues coming into the state and agriculture started to shrink. And you hero has documented, it's a 30-year decline from the time that sugar started going away. The amount of revenues and the percent of our GDP in Hawaii from agriculture is on a steady decline. And we're now less than half a percent of our GDP comes from agriculture, which is, compared to thinking about our history, it's quite a sad statement. And yet, Governor E. Gay made a proclamation a few years ago. He wanted to increase the amount of local food production significantly. I think that was a very noble goal and worth working towards. And we saw in COVID, the disruption to supply chains are very real. And so we really need to address this issue. But to date, we're still left with a legacy-style agriculture, while the rest of the world, particularly California, is rocketing forward in incorporating technology at all levels. And that's what we wanted to show people in Hawaii was happening elsewhere. This is what Ag in 2022 actually looks like. And so we brought a lot of smart people together to tell us about how it's working. Yeah, and dealing with the challenges, such as the challenges that California has with water, like that. Yeah, but one thing you said, Jim, I think it's worth just dwelling on it for a moment. So somewhere in the late 19th century, Hawaii had changed, missionaries came, everybody studied religion. They got to read and write and print newspapers in English and Hawaiian. The government changed. The monarchy got more sophisticated than all this. And by the end of the 19th century, we had these plantations. And the plantations got bigger and bigger and bigger until they all fell apart in the 50s and 60s, right around the statehood. And so what's interesting is that in the process, the original native Hawaiian growing techniques, feeding yourself, got lost. It was completely, all the oxygen, so to speak, was sucked out for the big plantations, for selling crops overseas, making uku bucks with it. But the notion of feeding yourself in the, what do you call it, you know, those agricultural areas. Ahu pua ahu. Ahu pua ahu, I didn't get that right. The notion of dealing with the land, that kind of went away and the ability to feed yourself went away. So now we find ourselves, A, without the plantations, B, without industrial agriculture, which I don't really think we want. That's my own view. And C, without the ability to feed ourselves, which is really critical in this- Danger. Problems with supply chain. So, in walks Jason. Hello. Enter Jason and Jason has some ideas and, you know, think tech has been following this for 20 years and, you know, and we've considered and, you know, heard about so many tech ideas that would make it easier to grow things from every part of the world. And some of them have worked. Some of them haven't worked. Some of them clearly, you know, are humbug, may I say, and some of them are very promising. And so I ask you, Jason, with all of the possible technological advances with all the technology that could help, what's your favorite group of things? What are the things that are gonna give my investor from Silicon Valley a return on its money? What is the technology that's gonna make it easier for people to get into the business, local people and feed us? Well, you know, AgTech is very comprehensive. It actually covers biological technologies, engineering and also digital technologies. And I think what the most attractive opportunity is, is to transform our agriculture system here in Hawaii with the digital technologies and be able to incorporate some of the things that are transforming other industries and include them into our agriculture system to help us boost our productivity and efficiency to get us to a point where we can produce product and competitive prices, but we're importing them. That's the main issue. So it's not about necessarily working harder, but definitely smarter. And digital technology is the way to get there. So for instance, you know, the digital world can take in information that humans maybe have a hard time processing quickly and we can get real time data to make decisions and farm smarter. And eventually we'll get to a point where it can actually give us an early warning to adverse events and therefore save crops from failing. Yeah, that's a serious consideration given the extreme weather possibility with climate change. You know, spend the whole season growing crops and then have them destroyed. Now that's a big problem and if you can anticipate that, it's better. So you talk about data, talk about information technology. Can you draw us a picture of what that looks like? Is it my PC on my farm? Is it my PC running some programs? Is it my PC on a network where I get weather information and I have somebody else doing the AI processing for me? How do you see that unfolding? What's the most powerful way to help me? Yeah, it's probably integrating all of that, right? And including your phone. Our phones are very powerful today compared to the computers we had, you know, decades ago. What we have in our pockets is a lot more powerful. And so we wanna integrate what we have carrying with our farm workers and our farmers on site with satellite technology, with the data center, with the AI and the machine learning backing that up to give us that real time data on the spot so that we can then implement the best practices right then and there. Yeah, okay, and you talked about biology. What is the biological solution that would help my young farmer? I'll let Jim take that. Okay. Okay. Well, one of the biological technology that we focused on in the conference, you know, we divided the conference up into four half-day segments. But before you go too far with that, let's hear about the conference. So you had a conference days ago. It was called the Ag Tech Conference. Yes. It was organized to demonstrate technology that could help agriculture.  So the conference was officially Tropical Ag Tech Conference and we very much wanted to, you know, that was a conscious strategic choice to focus on the tropics because at this time, a lot of the Ag Tech that's happening elsewhere is focused on industrial agriculture in California or the Midwestern United States. And we see the tropics, you know, Hawaii as an example, but the tropics have very different problems, much smaller farms, irregular terrain, different crops. So, you know, that we consciously chose to focus on the tropics and actually as a strategic choice. So the solutions we come up with in Hawaii are relevant to all of our friends across the Southern, the global South, that is all the tropics. And, you know, one data that we threw out in the conference that was, is a very interesting thing to ponder is there's 500 million farms in the tropics. Okay, 500 million smallholder farms. When you talk about- You say tropics, you talking about Latin America? Oh, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific Rim, you know, Southeast Asia, Southern China. You add all that up and it's about 50, it's gonna be 50% of the world's population in a few years. And there's 500 million small farms spread across all those. So we believe that technology that is developed in Hawaii in tropical Ag Tech is relevant to all those places. And you earlier alluded to the Silicon Valley guy, you know, in the investment arena, the first thing they wanna know is can it be scaled? Can you scale? That's how investors make money. Well, maybe growing papayas in Hawaii, you know, has a limit, you know, there's only so much space and so much market, that doesn't really scale, but the technology scales, right? If you expand it through all of the tropics. And so that's another component of our strategy for this conference is that we wanna help Hawaii develop these Ag Tech tools that work on local crops and stuff, but we have a bigger concept in mind that that technology that we figure out here in Hawaii by adapting and adopting Ag Tech has global relevance and a global market, 500 million farms. That's not trivial. And some people that- To say nothing about saving the world, to say nothing about it. There you go, half the world will be in the tropics by 2050. So we think it's relevant on a lot of levels. So, you know, I didn't answer your question about biology. I'm gonna let you go. What about papayalogy? You talked about papaya. Now, that's a, you know, the success there is a GMO by a local guy who studied at Cornell, as I remember, and came back and saved the industry in papaya. Saved the industry, absolutely. And it's the one go-to example of GM technology that actually helped an industry and helped the customer base. It was very beneficial, you know, whereas, you know, the big companies that controlled that technology, that was so they could sell more chemicals. It wasn't about making healthy, sustainable food. It was to sell more chemicals. So I think that was a bit of, honestly, my view is that was kind of a disservice to that whole technical- But you're not talking about GMOs as the kind of technology that you would export. I mean- No, no, we're not, we're not, sorry. We're not advocating that now. What is the biology that you would export? I mean, give us some examples of that. I have a great example for you. And I was intimately involved in it and you interviewed me about it. It was SPF Shrimp Root Stop. That was technology born in Hawaii, right here on the Big Island. And, you know, once we figured out how to do all the packing and shipping and blah, blah, blah and open the markets up, once we opened up those markets in Asia, we literally changed the world. We changed the world. The productivity of the shrimp industry from Hawaii brood stock went up six-fold. So we see that as, you know, sort of a best-case model for what could happen if we develop really cool tropical ag tech tools and breeds and so forth here in Hawaii. That stuff can be exported to the world. And I see it, you know, I was the first one to develop SPF Shrimp commercially and market it and develop that market. I see this situation in tropical ag tech as a parallel situation. It's wide open. And we had people like, for example, one of our speakers was from USAID, Dr. Koo does a lot of work in Africa. And he's telling us he would love to see Hawaii be a technology development platform for the tropics. This is AID talking that way.  This is a real opportunity. And some of the VCs that were at the conference were Gaga over the number 500 million farms. I'm Gaga right now. Yeah. But SPF means something about disease resistant. That's a specific pathogen free. It means they're disease free. Yeah. Okay. So, you know, one of the problems, Jason, is that we don't, we have a successful venture, a successful model in the shrimp and the brood stock, but you need land for that. On the other hand, it seems to me that information technology can make it more efficient. Whatever we do, and we can do more on a given foot or acre of land. And thus, you know, the brood stock can be done with less land. At the same time, you know, the largest landowner in the state of Hawaii is the state of Hawaii. And you need to have, you know, support from the government, not only from the governor, but from the legislature. And from DLNR and whoever else is involved. And of course the Department of Agriculture. So what about the land problem and the use of technology to make every acre more efficient? Brood stock and anything else? Yeah, that's an excellent point. You know, the land issue is that it's not just agriculture that needs a lot of land. The housing problems we have here, energy, there's a lot of competitive uses for land right now. And so trying to make or do more with less is actually what's gonna be needed moving forward with agriculture. And add to that that we have to do it in a much more environmentally friendly way. The current agriculture system and our food system accounts for some 30% of the greenhouse gas emissions. And you know, consumes about 70% of our freshwater resources. So technology and management, smarter management of land and resources is gonna play a key role in doing more with less in a better way. And so we could definitely use all the help from technology, but also you brought up politics. We need incentives from the government to help our entrepreneurs and our farmers develop and implement these technologies. Well, incentives might include land for one thing or cheap land. You know, the old argument about why we don't have diversified agriculture is that you can't get a long lease or buy land cheap. And then as a result, the bank will not lend you anything on a short-term lease. And so you can never get the capital to buy the equipment and all the things you need to be a farmer. The legislature could certainly help with that. It can incentivize landowners and for that matter, bankers to make farming more possible. And then of course, you know, you have tax credits, tax holidays, all kinds of incentives. I mean, if we sat around for half an hour, we could develop 20 of them, right? And really all good. So why isn't that happening, Jason? This is a hard question. Yeah. Oh, well. I guess we need to have our farmers maybe be a little more vocal support.  They don't take a day off. So neither do the farmers. And so I guess giving them a platform to maybe express their voices for the needs and for help. And so that we can have more support for our farming community. Yeah, absolutely. We have to get woke. Have to get woke on this before it's too late.  You simply cannot do that. And McDonald's only has one month supply and reserve. So prepare to be hungry.  So tell us, Jim, what else you had to present at the Tech Ag Tech conference that might have been interesting to investors from far away to landowners, to technology companies that might collaborate with and affiliate with in partnership with our people at the university and otherwise? Yeah, yeah, that's a great question. And that sort of encompasses what the whole conference was intended to do is to bring a bunch of smart people together so that they could form new relationships, you know, network and the possibility of projects. So, you know, we brought in a couple of, for example, we have post affinity, you know, I'm married to Jason's mom, right? Jason's my stepson, we don't look alike, but it's through marriage. But- Oh, well, you're looking like conceptually, you look alike. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's Japanese, right? So Hawaii, we have strong affinity for Japan, you know, because of a lot of commonalities, but also in the ag space, quite similar, you know, in agriculture and Japan is small farms and a lot of the technology and stuff, but things are kind of taking off there in the Ag Tech space. So we brought two representatives of Japanese corporations to Hawaii for the conference, both NEC, you know, the electronics corporation and Nesui, which is a seafood company, so that, you know, Hawaii folks could hear about what's happening in Japan and conversely, the Japanese guys could see what's happening in Hawaii and maybe, maybe, maybe there's an opportunity to interface and interact and form projects. And I think that that's gonna be one of the outcomes of the conference, you know, I can't say too much and let the cat out of the bag, but I think some projects are gonna develop as a result of this. And folks are talking about Hawaii as a platform for Ag Tech development for the tropics. You know, one thing about doing agriculture in Hawaii is you have a very small market here and then on the residential side of things, people are gonna go to Safeway and buy whatever in the counter, they're not gonna make a distinction. And if the produce from Chile is cheaper, they're gonna buy that every time, especially when they don't have money to spare. So how do we deal with that? I mentioned early on, you know, that the trick was to have people invest in farms in Hawaii and these agricultural technologies and developments and partnerships and make a return. So to make a return, you have got to sell at least locally and maybe beyond that, maybe to all of those 500 million places around the world. But in order to do that, you're competing with Chile. So Jason, can we use this technology to sell at a cheaper price? Are we there now? And if we cannot use this technology to sell it at a cheaper price, how do we sell? That's an excellent point. So we are not there yet and we need to get there and technology I think is the way and that includes not just productivity and efficiency at the farm, right? And you kind of, we're talking a little bit about that. It's actually we need to tech enable the whole food supply system to make it more efficient so that we can reduce the pricing at a more consumer friendly price. And I think that is kind of where disruption will come is if we can figure out that to be, these technologies be cheap enough so that it can be widely adopted across the state and we integrate the whole thing so that the farm production is connected to the demand and we streamline that. That's a way that we can reduce all the inefficiencies in between and bring the pricing closer to where it needs to be. And I think we can get there but it's gonna take a lot of work because it's quite a compact system. So on the positive side, we can attract investment dollars to develop this technology on these systems that we can then not just use here in Hawaii but as Jim was pointing out, there's the rest of the tropics to then distribute this technology to. So I am very hopeful and I think it will happen. Not good, okay. We want that. We wanna be awash with local crops because then we could have this kind of global brand, Hawaii, the place of new diversified high tech agriculture. And that alone, that brand would bring people to our doorsteps to buy the produce, to buy the brood stock type of products and to buy the technology. You know, I'm reminded Jim of a couple of shows that we did way back 10 years plus with a company called Safe Water Systems. These guys developed a way to purify water using solar power. And it was a plumbing solution. And they patented the valve in the plumbing solution so that they had some control over the intellectual property. They would deliver this to developing countries and they would give it away relatively cheap. They were very altruistic in the sense that they wanted to help the world. And also, they did recover some money for the Safe Water Purifying System, which did not require any electricity at all. So I'm wondering about your connection together, your partnership together and the technology here about whether you are taking steps to get into control of the intellectual property for some of these devices and then taking them to those 500 million, you know, offshore places and trying to do good works, eliminationary contribution, but also recovering your cost and maybe a modest profit in order to save the world. Because I looked to you guys, nothing much, no pressure. I looked to you guys to save the world. But what about that? I mean, are you trying to control intellectual property here? Are you gonna get patents? Are you gonna get trademarks? Are you gonna have the kind of device that Safe Water Systems had? Well, Jay, we are operating as a non-profit. We made money in the shrimp root stock business and exited that happily and everything's good. We don't need to make money, but we're doing this as a non-profit and we see ourselves more as a facilitator, bring people together, encourage projects to happen, call on our, we have extensive overseas networks, particularly Southeast Asia and there and call on those relationships to bring attention to Hawaii. So we really think, you know, we have a role to play and facilitating all this, but we're not trying to acquire control over any particular technology at this time. Okay, so what is the future though? Talk to me about the future of your adventures with technology, Jason. What's on your, if I had to look at your desk right now, what would I see there? A lot of notes scribbled here and there. No, what we're trying to do is we're trying to inspire Hawaii and Hawaii's entrepreneurs and researchers and agriculture people to take a look at the opportunity that's before us, you know, as was mentioned earlier, climate change is really disrupting food production in the tropics today. And it's only gonna get more difficult as climate change continues to worsen. We have now the, you know, social, political things going on that are disrupting our food supply as well. And so the opportunity is huge for young people to develop solutions that are climate friendly in the USA cause it climate smart and help small farmers make money. We really have to do that. We have to create solutions that give farmers value. And if we can do that, entrepreneurs can make a decent amount of money and it's a very strategic cause as well. We need to feed each other, right? So there's no getting beyond that. And so we have to come up with these solutions in Hawaii we believe is the perfect place because we have all of these micro climates that look exactly like a lot of the places in the tropics. So that's kind of where our minds are at with trying to develop this conference and we're trying to encourage Hawaii to take a good look at this as an opportunity to diversify our economy and increase our food security. Yeah, and the diet around the world is changing. I think people around the world are recognizing that a diet without meat is better. And, you know, people are going into veganism and the like. And I think in the future, there will be more of that, including in chain restaurants. And if you can generate products like that and make Hawaii famous for it, make Hawaii sort of a vegan place with all these, you know, healthy, clean, clear, efficient, and fresh. Fresh, a big word, products.  I think that the restaurant industry is in the process of trying to come back and in trying to come back, it's repositioning itself. And you can or you are part of that, no? Yeah. Okay, well, let's talk about closing remarks. Let's go to you first, Jim. I'd like you to make closing remarks to the public and to the government. What would you leave with them? Well, my comment to the public would be, you know, when you go shopping, think first of buying local products.  The growth of the CSA model since particularly since COVID started has been really encouraging. And a lot of farmers are now dependent on that type of community distribution of their products. That's a fantastic thing. My message to the government is, wow, Ag in Hawaii needs help. And I think Governor's IgA of goals set of more local food going into the schools and more local food produced instead of the 90% of imports that we do now. That's noble, but we need more money. These things don't happen without money. I think they need a strategic plan for agricultural development in the 21st century and then fund it and go for it. And that's not just buying land in Wahiwa. That's implementing technology. It's helping farmers and all that. Okay. And now let me go to Jason and ask for his comment. And my question to you is what is your advice? To the young graduate, somebody who likes to get into technology, like, you know, likes to believe as you do that technology can solve these problems and give us leverage. And for that matter, profit and comfort here in our economy. What's your advice to those people? Yeah. So I guess my advice would be to take action. Right. Sometimes we think we have good ideas and we're a little paralyzed by that and don't know where to start. Or you just got to get started. Wahiwa actually has a lot of successful entrepreneurs in various fields and technology included. And so we have the support ecosystem is developing quite nicely. So I would ask for help. I would seek advice and whatever your problem, whatever problem you think you're solving, you have to get down to the end user because really it's about creating value for that end user. And we really need to help our farmers, right? And so the value proposition should be around helping the farmer be more productive and more profitable. Because if we can't get our farmers to be profitable, you just can't scale the industry. And so that's where the opportunity lies is to provide value to farmers while being good to the environment and good to the culture and society around it. And it's a huge challenge, but the market is huge as well. And it's a very strategic need to beat ourselves. So I would just say go for it and find help. And Jim and I are here to help. Yeah, not only Hawaii, but the world. Notice that. Well, let me let me say this that, you know, although we get distracted here in Hawaii as in the country with things that really aren't important that are distractions, this has got to be at the top of the list of priorities. And I wish you well. We wish you well. Think Tech has covered agriculture for a long time. And to see you together as an agriculture and technology partnership is a beautiful thing. And I hope you'll come back and talk to us and tell us about all the things that you couldn't tell me about today, Jim. Okay. And as for you, Jason, I think you ought to develop a new shrimp that only works six days a week. Let me write this down. Thanks very much. Jim Wyman, Jason Wickey. Thank you very much. Hello. Thank you. And don't me to us a think tech Hawaii.com. Mahalo.


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It's a complete carbon frame and fork Shimano 105 components disc brakes marita expert SL rims Continental tyres and the weight of this 54 centimetre that I have right here came in at 8.5 45 kilograms at A local dealer here on the Sunshine Coast Trilogy cycles and I must say after the first couple of rides I've been super impressed the big thing that I've noticed is that it is super comfortable for an all-round race bike The geometry is more relaxed than others in the same category yet It does a great job of maintaining that racy feel with some narrow tube shapes and stiffness Which technically is the same stiffness as its bigger brother ridden by the pros It just requires more carbon fiber and thus weighs a little more now What's interesting about marita is I think they have a bit of an unknown strength to many people out there now a Lot of bike brands will have strengths in particular categories. It might be marketing It might be branding could be their history might even be the pros that actually ride their road bikes And in the case of marita, it's actually their Manufacturing capabilities they invest a lot in the process owning the process from start to finish In Taiwan and in fact Some of the biggest brands in the world so specialized all their road bikes or bikes in general are actually manufactured through the marita manufacturing Facilities now what's also interesting is they do their manufacturing in Taiwan and Their design and engineering comes out of Stuttgart in Germany, which is actually known to be an engineering hub Some of the biggest brands in the world like Bosch Porsche and Mercedes all come out of Stuttgart So what's interesting about their engineers and designers on marita? They've actually come from some of the most well respected engineering firms in the entire globe It's no wonder this bike rides exceptionally well and a few people have since spoken to me about marita And they only have positive things to say so a full review will be coming on this marita Very shortly just know that this isn't the one that I'll be giving away This one's going back to a local dealer and they'll probably sell it as a demo You'll get a brand spanking new one that is size Relevant so let's talk about the rules for this prize and first up I talked about the flexibility you have with the first prize. So I've just some rules down here So number one if you are the first prize winner, I'm happy to give you the cash I can't tell you exactly what I've spent on this bike because it is confidential But I'll tell you offline and if you prefer to take the cash over the road bike I'm happy to do that number two mark and advanced traders. Who's the brand manager for marita? He said if someone would prefer another marita bike We'll take what you've spent on this as a credit and you'll get a special camnickles prize on any other marita road bike Or any other marita bike for that matter and the third one is I'm currently speaking to a wheel brand Okay, and instead of the road bike you can take home a set of high-end carbon wheels So I haven't quite negotiated that one so stay tuned for that Now to win this prize you must be a subscriber of the channel. That's the first prize You don't have to be an email subscriber. You just need to be a subscriber to the channel Your profile must be set to public not private. You don't have to do that straight away you'd need to do that around the 13th of December so I'm going to draw the prize a week before Christmas, which is the 18th and between the 13th 14th and 15th, so there's three days you'll need to be set To public because I'm going to be extracting all the subscribers and then we're going to do the draw and if you are set to private Unfortunately, your name won't appear when we're extracting the names So you can keep yourself as private then on the 13th 14th and 15th flick yourself over to public and then you'll be sure to be part of the draw and the 18th as I said we'll publish the video we'll announce the winner of the first second and third prize and the last thing I want to mention if People don't come forward to claim their prize across the three categories within the first 30 days will do a redraw So that's pretty much it catch you in the next video


ospital recently and um they know now how many dogs how many of these dogs should be microchipped i think it should be brought in by the government that dogs cannot get licensed without being chipped i take your point and maybe it talks to a wider issue i don't think this problem would be resolved by chipping um it's something that kind of sounds like chipping is the problem but i don't think chipping would fix it uh right another call it says very disappointing sad people all the stuff up on social media phones etc about the late queen lisabeth do people not have families moms and dads of their own present and past wouldn't like the same uh kind of stuff up very sad world we live in now no respect you see i could sort of counter that point with us to why people might feel that they their country and people that lived here were disrespected by the monarchy but there's no point i understand i respect your point of view and in 2023 maybe you know you have a point but a lot of people sort of maybe might look at what's happening now and historically regarding the high cost of inadvertently leaving the immersion heater switched on says this caller i discovered that there is a switch available which turns on the heater for a preset time intervals for example 15 minutes 30 minutes one hour the 15 minute setting is adequate for most household use except maybe for a bath it ensures that you need never worry about whether or not you switch the immersion off before heading off to mayorka uh it costs them 30 euro which is not insignificant than the heat in mayorka too you didn't need the immersion on in chile uh donny gall uh hi greg i hope this finds you well i recently removed my oil burner from our home and installed a pellet stove to heat our home for the coming winter uh as that would make our home more carbon neutral well so i thought the bags of pellet are 10 kilograms they've gone from three euro 75 to 599 that's nearly an 80 percent increase per bag can anyone explain to me why this is i'm also currently waiting on our new ev car from Toyota and the way of it calculated is that it would actually be cheaper to run our existing diesel car than an electric car where is the incentive to try my best for the environment that comes in from shane shane in terms of the word pellets i don't know what you see we have been conditioned to think that going green is to save us money it's not it was incentivized early but we kind of need to decouple that that an electric car is cheaper to run than diesel or pellets are cheaper than coal you know they have used fire they have used tax and uh and grants and that type of thing to try and incentivize the switch but it's not about saving money um because there is an awful lot of revenue from petrol and diesel and that revenue is going to have to come from somewhere and it's going to come from ev cars okay so at the moment it might be cheaper to switch it might be even a little cheaper to run depending on the vehicle but 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groups recliners and leather suites transform your house into the home of your dreams at mcginley's furniture on the joe boner link road letter kenny and at mcginley's furniture dot com now um my apologies to samantha um for keeping you waiting samantha good morning to you morning greg uh people might not believe this uh because we've been talking about this clon mani school bus issue uh for quite some time now and still was it a game today or friday that children have been left standing on the side of the road greg again this morning and there were seven kids um cut off the bus because there was no seats for them and the bus driver drove off and left seven kids at the side of the road again this morning now it is do you know what we are at our what's end at the moment um it's actually we're worried now for their safety like my own kids as well as other people's kids they're rushing for the bus now in the morning they're getting out and my answer is i just take your time and this is but we won't get a seat if we don't get on for it we won't get a seat so we'll be left at the side of the road and these kids are being left at the side of the road to wait to see if another bus can come if the next bus can take them they've been mourning so they could take them they've been mourning so they haven't been able to take them and they are being left there and do you know what it is just it's a health and safety issue at this stage because they're at a junction and there's four roads at this junction and it's just not on we are worried what's going to happen and we are in week three of the school year and really we're getting the warmsters yeah i mean yeah and there can be sticky plaster solutions to this the bottom line is is there's another bus required do we know if a tender has been put out for another bus i mean if there's any bus drivers or bus companies in the area that would know if a tender has been put out because i'll tell you yeah there was a problem in letter kenny um i don't know if i should say well i was told by someone in letter kenny that boss services were being withdrawn the day before kids started back at school and heaven and earth was moved to adjust conditions so that the bosses went ahead let me put it like that right the day before what's wrong with clan mani how can these children be allowed to be treated like this and their parents as well but you're talking about the safety of it rightly so is it just because it's clon mani that it doesn't matter i don't know and i know that this issue is going on in other parts of an issue on other parts of dunagall but at the moment we are standing there for week three the parents are waiting and these kids it is just not it's not fair it's not fair on them i have a first year and a second year in my house and then kids are going to school and they don't know a which bus to get in home on or be if there is even want to be able to take them home it's just it's not good for their for their mentality it's not good for anything i don't know if the issue has been going on and on and we seem like we're banging our heads against the wall why can't the relief boss on a temporary basis until paperwork is done why can't the relief boss just become the second boss or the extra bus yeah i think it's the minute it's because they are only to be the relief boss if there is extra but we know there's extra like you know yeah we know exactly the gaslighting us and i don't like using that word but look we know the kids there we know there's an extra boss it might take a wee while to sort this out the paperwork and the contracts or whatever it might be but until such time grown-ups need to grow up and who the boss there or whomever it is just provide this second boss until we get the situation sorted let's not play games i don't think that is the definitely the issue greg that it sounds like the relief boss has only been told that they are only for emergencies that if it is a case that the second or the third boss that's coming to the stop cannot take these kids but it's only then that they're allowed to be used and let i was talking to boss there in last week and they told me that there's 41 kids in chlamarly at the minute you have the best ticket but no seat on the bus right that's an extra coach mode do you know did they say what was happening in terms of getting seats for those children even if we get the go ahead to put on an extra coach she says i don't know if i have actual operator to operate it so this is pushing it way down the line we don't know if this one started this week next week this all seems to be red tape hmm and i think also we're so frustrated and we hit it on the radio having tonight but it's just getting to the stage we have no other choice like god forbid but there's a genuine fear and especially is the dependent on the weather conditions on any particular morning there is a genuine concern that there could be some sort of a crash or a collision or something because these children being left on the side of the road so let's imagine what the conversation might be the day after that happens and i'll tell you people won't be able to sort of ignore it and pretend it's not an issue yeah there would be a bus put all men straight away but it's too late you know and that is what we are scared of there is four roads meeting a disjunction and the kids are hopping out of the carriage to make a beeline for the bus because they do not want to be the ones left behind that is no way for kids to be hit and from our perspective we contact boss Aaron and we get some sort of generic statement doesn't answer any questions so we can't ask questions of boss Aaron to get to the bottom of this i can't we've invited obviously the education minister on but she's not going to speak to the iraq this committee she's been called before to speak about this issue so she's hardly going to speak to us so you know no one is prepared to say this is my responsibility i'm taking responsibility or to explain it people are being treated like mushrooms and you know what that is kept in the dark and fed you know what like it yeah you know someone needs to step up here i don't know if it's a local rep or whatever if they need a protest or something needs to be done because this is completely unacceptable that is totally unacceptable on a basis we are weak today at the studio it does seem that the book falls with the education minister and she is nothing but an action she is you know what she is no use to anybody at this moment in time because she's not doing her job what do you do in this situation samantha like what happens tomorrow morning like tomorrow morning we just know what's going to be the same carry on we are you know what to come back for the parents to be succeeded again that's is it first confirmed so is it first come first served like are the seven children that missed out today they just happened to be the last ones left before all the seats were filled yeah so effectively every child on that boss is affected by this issue then because it could be them tomorrow every change on that boss is affected by that issue it depends how quick they can get themselves on that boss so it must be an absolute scramble every morning then isn't it is a scramble and it sounds awful like the but the the kids are actually running we are feared the boss is going to run them down there's going to come other cars it is it is a it's an accident waiting to happen right i mean because i think that paints a different picture here of the chaos of 42 i don't know how many well at that stop there is 23 getting on at that one stop it's the last stop and all of them 23 chances getting on there there is going to be six or seven every morning that is not going to get a seat and how do you do that in an orderly fashion i mean like it's yeah you know what i'm all about like i know you sir the parents are you know take a deep breath and all that but i mean if it's random every day as to which seven or eight are going to be left behind it's an absolute joke like it is and it's going to happen every morning until it's going to be sorted so 23 children aren't guaranteed a seat at the stop that's the reality 23 aren't guaranteed a seat yeah well i don't know there definitely needs a bigger boss a coach on that rate would actually solve the problem but we are getting no answers it is a coaster at the moment it's a 32 33 seater but a coach would solve the extra problem but they are not the best opportunities are not being given to go ahead to put on a coach yeah i mean they don't like the phrase but we need a pencil pusher to stop pushing their pencil here yeah because the problem is is i mean i don't think i don't firstly my understanding is is and i'm open to anyone who wants to correct me these decisions aren't made in donnagoal as far as i'm aware i think it might be slightly ago that these types of decisions are made as i say i'm open to correction on that but this is just completely unacceptable we're going to bombard them again both the minister's office and uh boss erin with another inquiry and we're going to make it more specific so this generic nonsense can't be uh sent back to us but i don't want to like we don't want to be proven right on this Samantha we don't want that conversation whereby we say we told you so but is that what it would take and that's what we're scared of yeah and justifiably so right i appreciate you don't want to be speaking to me you'll be speaking on highland radio i understand that it's the it's the i understand it's the last ditch thing um but hopefully someone has to be embarrassed into doing the right thing here because that's what it's coming down to isn't Samantha it's embarrassing them into a decision it's the last that you can't and as you say we're just waiting for some person to own up and take responsibility for it and say look we will sort this all right okay listen thank you all right listen if there's anyone in the boss industry that will speak to us on the quiet uh in that area about what is going on or what possibly what's going on or is it a paperwork issue is there a bit of a standoff if there's anyone in the industry there that would speak to us very much confidentially in the clan money greater clan money area that might be able to explain what's going on here why won't they put on a bigger boss as opposed to having a standby boss as backup maybe there's a few extra quid in that i don't know what the ins and outs i'm not casting any dispersions but if there's someone out there that can give us an insight into that on the quiet if you know what i mean in a whistleblowery type fashion please get in touch with us now oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand because it just feels to me there's something going on in the in the background there all right a caller says brenton divin it's going to be joining us by the way after a 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calling it downings good man unfortunately yeah great unfortunately a bit of history there but trance i won't thank me for that there you know the the grower side's pushing hard but yeah my kids speak gilly greg but um their brains of sponge mines has been damaged over time it's not it's not that's a podcast in and of itself i don't there's still a few there's a few still a few stories i want to hear all the day all the day so fast and good or two when they talk and because i look at things you understand words and sentences now but see when they talk they're they're a hundred million dollars i'm i'm i'm picking up every third or fourth word but i'm you're getting there it's great that they are too right so you and ryan farry of the donagola news are going to talk about the intermediate championship quarter finals um what jumps out for you from the weekend's ties interesting you know the four teams that are left now fan it uh don low um terminally colomba all very different approaches this semi-final and particularly in colomba i've lost i think four five semi-finals they're mad to get on there a final fan it of course the one the junior gill took early in the year and i've had a great season kind of a bit of smashing grab against the downings yesterday in fairness but listen they're there they hung on there they're a good side and of course don low and termin probably like they would see themselves as senior clubs as well great when they would have probably will be the extra reserves them other two teams so certainly interesting games i mean i say ryan farry's on me he kept us right yesterday ryan is an unreal knowledge because a few guys at the wrong juries he's on different things again but ryan knows everybody so it was great to have somebody up there along with you you know but um listen it's nice down there yesterday funny good last few weeks here i was in bondor in a game you know and then i was at mount charles and then it was and um and you do or you know down instead and down and you know and sometimes you know it's some kind of errors that you're going to these places it's a lovely drive and i know yesterday wasn't wasn't the best days it was always something nice of it coming along the sea there and yeah it's a nice place to visit it was a cracking game um yesterday the one i was at now and as i say i'm fanatic is that a missed i don't know if we'll be kicking themselves yeah presume over yeah certainly isn't not taken away from fanatic don't give us a low school angry greg and they went i think their last they went 11 maybe seven up i think it was maybe about 10 to go you couldn't see anything but a uh a down is like they do a couple of chances angry they'll be disappointed but it didn't think it would matter um but uh mcgrinahan fella for um fanatic kept him in touch with a couple of great frees and there's a great story actually greg the one in goal that was kicked um by um allen uh mackett here it was interesting because he's a college in liverpool he's at a real tough time he's 23 he's done both his cruciates great now his flight was cancelled on saturday and he only got the flight down sunday morning so he just made it and there he was popping up to put the ball in the back of net there was two points out of that stage with about two two months to go and that put him a point up they finally kicked on a good enough score after the great story isn't it great story for him because it looked like he wasn't going to make it and of course for the lad to come back from two cruciates you know you talk about greg to be flying home from from college in liverpool as well you know all of that entails and there he was popping up for and then they have to prove to the teammates that they're working us hard over there and i'm sure the what's that group of videos of you know sweating in the gym you have to prove it you have to prove it don't show off too much he's gonna catch you bread it is a great story and then there's a story behind now each of the semi-finals and that that's that that's obviously listen um that the local uh the locals know the crack with their team but sort of if you want to take an interest from outside the area you know there's there's little stories there great story i mean leave or i don't know was obviously a great derby game and you know i think they've where i really put it up to and cool's been a difference in that game maybe the most surprising one was bunkrannas to feed to deep colomba and the manner of it i suppose because other people may be tipping bunkrannas to to go on among the competition but they were they were comprehensively beaten and as i say for new colomba now it's this thing of a semi-final so massive for them to get on there as well so yeah looking looking for the round that up all right that's good stuff uh more in old donnell is in studio two looking at the ladies football championships so far yeah i mean a lot of um i suppose coverage of the ladies you know you've obviously the three championships going on there um i think with the papers greg with so much stuff going on it's very hard for them to get everywhere of course it's it's virtually impossible so listen the senior semi-finals are next week and that's so i just want to move on to give us an idea of what you've seen so far this year across the championships see if it were me if it were me like arguably a new generation of reader stroke listener is tracking the ladies stuff it's it's uh and to be honest with you i know it's impossible to get around and maybe uh i think clubs some clubs do it uh maybe all do um you know you know to have someone that's right i'll text in the scores or whatever or you know what i'm on about i think that's the future because as you say there's a lot of games on in a lot of different places and you're never going to get all the choices right are you but just by all these games greg you can tell the ladies games is on the up yeah you know and that's the thing so many teams can field yeah and i think in the ga very different from other organizations greg you've got to promote everybody and help everybody out nuts that's why i won't move i supposed to come on this week and and give us an idea of where she season is there any team stepping up from juniors or intermediates and and what you think of it the senior next week so it'd be good to get a good day of her on it all right and keep your eye across holster as well with brendan crossing of the arsh news yeah we're gonna have a wee hit across also it's kind of getting in that all the championships are up and running um our our neighbors to roam is knockout championship that doesn't start the next week and i was just looking at the top half of their draw there's there's um eight championship games and the top four of those eight teams seven of them have won the championship in the last 10 years so the throne championship is so um it's the best in holster you know i'm not saying that they they don't have holster winners but actual i suppose competitive nature of it is a way ahead all the other championships so dairy championships kicking on i was looking at monaghan there actually uh my cousin's team clontuberant um there's there's a five team group and four of the teams are in five points uh how it's funny stuff which is i've never seen a group like that in my life they're talking about down to the wire so uh yeah brendan cross will be on to look across how closely linked is what's happening and the quality um at club level as it then relates to into county level i mean what if can you look at what's happening at a club level at a club level in a county and sort of say well what that might mean for this year's championship or the future championship i mean not like sort of spotting or there's a cracking player playing for intermediate and when but you know as the games are played and the mood in the county does it sort of give any indication as to what might happen at an into county level yeah well i'm certainly talking to my friends in gaughey there's a great lift on gaughey and the club championship this year of course for them being all there in fray you know so i suppose it puts football up at the top and listen you need a healthy club scene for for the county well they're if a team dominates i mean look at kilku all island champions down or probably in the worst have been this last 50 years so it needs a healthy championship probably without a team maybe dominating and it's more about the interest Greg and go back to which end up with the ladies not there's interest there there's interest across our club championships going a lot better this summer i'm seeing teams leaving players inside leaving a platform for attack inside not doing this thing that we've been given off for ages about pulling the whole team back now there is another team still doing it uh by and large even yesterday most in yesterday's Greg take sorry yesterday's game a couple of times fan that had like five players in the inside of 40 they're almost like an old forward six who was mad to see so teams are realizing this and we've got to come at players inside and have a platform i think it was downings i was watching they were in the semi finals ulster i think and it was a televised game and it was really it was the old way of playing you know really pedestrian and then bursting forward and then lose possession and just hang around until the next phase of play but i don't know i could see things are changing a little bit oh great um what is there any and there's not loaded i haven't any update on a point in the new manager yeah yeah the the rimmer most fly and still there's to be an announcement tomorrow as far as there that's what i heard that's what i heard now yeah i was like he's checking his phone now see if anyone's trying to see actually was only something in the county board this morning because when i was wondering uh i'll not tell you the first line of it because we're actually reading the leak there's a call come on this is this is the county chairman yeah come here putting through to own seven four nine one twenty five sorry Michael is he telling you to show let's uh let's keep going so an announcement to our internal external any ideas or maybe you know when it's unfair for me to ask i i know a few people that have been uh approached about the job and there has been talks it's just a suitability thing at the minute a couple of people that have been talked to are involved in club stuff um so they're saying listen we've got to do this first but how that fits in the dunnygogs dunnygogs gotta get got moving soon get it being in place can you i suppose set that up and and finish off the club scene remains to be seen but the last word out there was there was advanced talks and it was to be something tomorrow so internal external candidate um internal as far as i know yeah right okay i've given too much away no okay listen bren and fairness you do keep the cards very close to your chest unless you're getting paid right so we know it's a fella he has a job he's at work at the moment and he's from dunnygogs the guess guess guess who guess who you get the little guess listen i'm you but you're gonna have no podcast if i don't let you go uh bren and listen thanks as always it's always an absolute pressure that's brennan literally away now uh to finish off putting together his podcast the dl debate it is uh broadcast live on the radio after the news seven this evening uh or you'll be able to listen to it on demand there or shortly thereafter on our website at highlandradio.com all right back in a moment cutting through the spin the nine till noon show on highland radio the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union do you need to switch your current account or loan we are now offering my cu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features and competitive rate switcher loans all right let's get back to some of your uh comments there are many caravan sites in dunnygog can they not move to another one well that doesn't talk to the emotional connection you might have your grandparent your parents might be from that area or you know maybe you've taken your children there for the last two or three years and that's you know where the memories are are growing from do you know what i mean it's it's not just it's not just a like switch in a car or something there's an emotional connection there um i call us this i still didn't get i still didn't get school refund back from a bus transport first time ever getting free have paid hundreds over the years no answers from boss erin they say most have been refunded but i have not all right that is a problem a lovely three-generation family community in tola caravan park which took 20 years to build has been decimated by a thoughtless action without any warning given or consultation undertaken now i understand where you're coming from uh but it's clear from the press release they have been thinking about this for for a while and the warning was in the turkeys and seas that they could ban dogs at any point if the problems persisted so just to be fair i understand where you're coming from though uh in terms of consultation there seems to be an issue there that seems to be somewhat lacking all right let me take a quick break the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie there's only one thing as good as a tui holiday and that's looking forward to one so get next summer sorted and secure your tui holiday today choose beach lakes and cruise breaks across a wide range of destinations including mexico direct from dublin plus all your favorites like holiday villages splash world resorts and our own tui blue hotels secure now with thousands of free child places and a low booking deposit of 25 euro per person 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bit of pasta and you threw it at the wall and if it stuck i think that meant it was ready i'm not quite sure but anyway there's another pasta test doing the rounds now and we're joined in studio by two guests we have martin mcdevitt assistant community development manager at dldc good morning to you morning good to have you with us and also rosalie and gallagher manager of carjet le calia and these are off the back of a successful dldc event at the weekend too uh which is good to see uh so much taking place right okay right the pasta test i refer to um which one of you wants to explain to me what what this is about because it's about sort of defining um what your activity is whether it's a social enterprise or a private business so do you want to take that one uh yeah yeah i can take that Greg um yeah so uh the initiative came around from dormant accounts funded a scheme called arise uh and that was addressed in one of the kind of objectives from the national strategy for social enterprise which was building awareness of what a social enterprise actually is so uh we came up with this kind of acronym for the criteria of what a social enterprise is and come up with the word pasta so that then created the pasta test and um so that's kind of like taking the key ingredients of what a social enterprise is and uh linking them with uh you know the fun idea of having pasta parties would be in social events then so what would be the benefit then in also establishing the difference between a social enterprise and private business is this sort of to see if a social enterprise maybe might be eligible for any fronting streams that are out there or yeah well i i suppose like you know social enterprise is a word that kind of came about a few years back you know um and it's become this kind of buzzword now and a lot of people maybe don't know what social enterprise actually is and so the past it helps help define that you know so there's kind of like five kind of key areas uh and you know it's where you know you may be a community group or a community center a charity you might be a disability service so there's a variety of organizations out there that actually are social enterprises and might be aware of it so they can go on the website they can take the pasta test and find out and it's then like ourselves at the LDC we provide support to social enterprises um we also provide support say to the managers and to the committees but also you know for community engagement events and and social inclusion initiatives so yeah so it's creating that awareness and letting people know you know if you are a social enterprise this is what's available and and so on yeah so i think rosalie is it fair to say that carter lekelia is a good example of a social enterprise yes carter lekelia um as a social enterprise and we support people with disabilities vulnerable young adults and senior citizens and basically um we provide a service uh through sport recreation education and employment and social activities so um our social a social enterprise is not for profit so all the monies are the revenue that we occur and it goes back into the company like for example we have uh we're based in the vestry the old churches and conals and over the years um there has been a lot of money spent bringing that building up and that's where most of the monies that is brought in goes back into providing a service for people with disabilities and we also have the fern coffee doc is based in sincones campus and we provide a service there as well for the staff in the hospital and also the daily visitors to the hospital and disability groups that go on day services yeah we also provide a pop-up shop in the psychiatric wing of the general leirikini hospital one hour per day and um so basically we have in our um vestry we have a large sports hall and another multi-purpose area downstairs that was once a cafe and then upstairs we have nice training rooms meeting rooms social room and board room disability bathrooms and it's over the years that have been upgraded we have a nice lift there that people with disabilities can access easily onto the facilities upstairs and we have over 25 groups availing offer services um and in 2019 just before the covid we had approximately 26 000 people come through our our building for sale bearing in mind that the upstairs area was closed for three months for renovation again we were upgrading uh making sure that the doors were wide enough for wheelchair new floors dropping the ceilings to retain the heat and since that we have renovated um a kitchen into a reception area where people with disabilities can come in and get work experience on office skills and reception skills because it's real hands-on it's a real world experience it feels feels like that at least yeah we do have people one of the numbers like now though because you felt like you dripped me a bit of information before covid it was 26 000 people through the door are you getting close are you hoping to get close to that maybe 2023 is a full year or this year or this year we should be up around the 20 000 21 000 which is not but not a bad bounce back it's come back very quickly no those last few months all right excellent stuff now how do you fund all of this you know um is this through hiring out elements of the building and all that type of stuff or do you get some state funding is there yes other funding streams because this is amazing what you've done in terms of progress and improving of services and developments how do you how is it funded well firstly um we generate funds from letting out the rooms for meetings and for training and also the big hall as well for sport brilliant and other uh we have church services we have the ukrainian basketball team are on there at the weekends we have the special olympics in there and um so it provides provides facilities to a huge a huge range of people really isn't it it's like it really is a hub it's a hub in the real sense of the word like yeah but we always have to look at our disability group yes of course and then what we can do after that so one of the pastor tests is trading i.e. unlike charities a social enterprise generates income by selling products and services now a lot of organizations that i would see as charities like charity shops charity bosses are so are they then really in in real terms social enterprises if they have like Irish wheelchair association has a shop yeah so it's not just one isolated kind of criteria like that Greg so they might trade that's part of it um so that they have a trading element um a lot of social enterprises maybe charities um you don't have to be a charity to be a social enterprise so yeah it's all a bit kind of like what your social agenda is yeah kind of what what it's all going back to the very basic purpose of what your enterprise is actually doing and if it's not for profit and as Rosalind was explaining there but the fantastic work that to do everyone that kind of manage the management committee they're all volunteers so it's a voluntary organization it's where the people are giving up their time to be on the committee to run the social enterprise yeah and where the profits are reinvested back into you can see they are because of the development and the growth and refurbishment so if they're lucky to make a surplus that's all put back into it and then obviously needing then to get fondant and so on yeah exactly so then talk to me then about uh because i don't want to make sure i want to make sure i don't confuse this so let's talk then about these events that are coming up right yeah there are past a party dates and locations the 6th of september the blue stack special needs foundation in donagol ten another amazing success story of people working against the odds to create a an amazing facility that's the 6th that's gone last tuesday okay so tomorrow uh the uh there is where is that one it's up in nokfola nokfola in guidore yeah the 20th of september it's the old courthouse in lyford and the 27th of september the workhouse don fanahe so talk to me then about who these are for who could benefit and what the long-term benefits might be okay so um well who are they for they're for everyone really like they're for the the public can come along um to find out what social enterprises are in the area the reason we've got those locations by the way is that we were going to like geographically across across the county yeah so um you can be an existent social enterprise that does come along you could be maybe a community group or you might be a service provider and basically it's a very informal uh what works for you what are you doing could we employ that that kind yeah and we we kind of we have a guest speaker there from the Irish social enterprise network chris gordon so he's coming up and uh he gives um a presentation on social enterprise as well um and then we deliver kind of like information on what our supports are from from dunagol local development uh we passed it great as well and but we don't throw it in the roof but uh we it's cooked before we said wall martin i never said roof i said wall so um yeah so it's a very kind of informal event and it goes from 12 o'clock to two o'clock but uh it's basically for everyone because it's you're creating that awareness greg that um it's letting people know what is a social enterprise and are you a social enterprise and then obviously you know what you do in your community exactly or maybe you could be the one that tells everyone else that this is what's working for us or you could be the one that goes well what can we learn from all this has been networking isn't it no and identifying and and you know all that good stuff uh right okay uh now you can take the pass to test by going to pass to test.ie i can't believe that wasn't already registered as url but it's there anyway and you can also register for these uh events in guidore on the 13th tomorrow lyford on the 20th dunfana he on the 27th dunagol tan's already been uh ticked you can go to the social enterprise pastor party dunagol dot event bright dot ie but if you search dunagol pastor party yeah i'm sure it'll pop up or they can contact us at the ldc as well even if you can't make a pastor party that they can get in touch with us and um directly and and you know we can we can respond into and roseline do you are you supported by dldc and how has that worked in your in your favor very much so um we would have monthly meetings uh firstly i am involved in the send meetings and that's community groups all over that is organized and it's very beneficial because we are then aware of the challenges that all the other groups have uh we're also that um you know we're not overlapping our services or we're causing displacement you have to be very aware of when you're a social enterprise that you have to look at the other businesses that's really quite important yeah and that you're not causing displacement so we would be very careful like with the services we offer and say for example our coffee doc uh that we wouldn't be um impeding on other businesses around us um as well as that there's no point in having um doing this we want to be unique we want to be providing unique services and can i just mention we have we are just on the crux of um starting a new project overlook in the park we are bringing out um the we are hoping a new building will start within the next month or two and it's all a sensory room sensory garden multi-purpose area changing area for people you don't stand still do you no and uh a nice multi-purpose room with a coffee doc brilliant all um access from complete access from the park which will encourage healthy lifestyle for people with disabilities brilliant the amenities will be all there for them okay listen uh Rosalind Gowher thank you so much uh for joining us and it's great to hear about the work of Cardiola Kelly and also Martin McDevitt assistant community development manager at DRDC go on to the DRDC website or give them a call if you've missed anything or you want any of the clarifications is that it yep all right we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at set nine thank you for listening thanks for taking part in the shows chat to you then John Breslin's next the nine till noon show with letter Kenny credit union