for a news update and we cross over now and say good morning to Catherine Gaffney. Thanks Greg, good morning. Questions are being asked over why a Micah meeting wasn't facilitated between the Thyshock and Donegal County Council. Mihal Martin was in Donegal last weekend and met with a number of affected homeowners and the Micah Action Group. However, it's thought that Thyshock should have met with the Council too to discuss issues relating to the current 9010 scheme and the upcoming Enhanced Scheme. Micah Action Group PRO, Michael Doherty has described it as a missed opportunity. Donegal County Council should have been asking for help, should have been saying to the Thyshock's office, we really need this to happen so as we can explain our cause and have people understand, have the Thyshock understand why this scheme is stalled effectively at the moment. That didn't seem to have happened or if it was requested, how come it wasn't honoured? I'm not sure which of the two it is, all I do know is it didn't happen and it should have happened. A survey has revealed that the fish-swing debacle is adversely affecting the southwest Donegal economy. The figures compiled by the Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association shows that hundreds of homes and workers are being impacted by the ongoing issue. Tara Duggan has more. The association says the 239 households are directly affected by the turning away of vessels from Kilibegs. This in turn is impacting up to 300 seasonal workers directly, with to date 1773 working days lost to them collectively. The IFPEA has described the situation as a devastating blow to seasonal workers who have witnessed their duration of work already eroded due to Brexit TCA cuts in their fish quota. The association is also warning that if Kilibegs can't function in line with other EU fishery harbours or ports, it will be placed at a competitive disadvantage due to what it says is an unfair interpretation of EU rules and regulations by a combination of the Department of the Marine and the SFPA. The IFPEA says this will ultimately lead to job losses and further devastating impacts for the wider community. And pay is one of the issues set to top the agenda at the Association of Guard the Sargeants and Inspectors' Annual Conference, which gets underway this morning. The Minister for Justice, Helen McIntee, is also expected to announce that body-worn cameras for Guard the will be trialled with in the next year. The General Secretary of the AGSI Antoinette Cunningham said members will be viewing with interest proposals around pay given the recent increase in the cost of living. There's no doubt that pay will arise. We currently have the building momentum pay deal, which is a pay deal right across the public sector. And of course that's going to be controversial given the rate of inflation and the state of the Irish and world economy. So people certainly will be concerned about pay and what pay might look like for the coming year and into next year. Whether now this morning will be mostly dry and cloudy, outbreaks of rain will move northwards over the area this afternoon and there may be some heavy and thundery burst top temperatures of 10 to 12 degrees. We're back with more 10 o'clock until then. Good morning. This is your guide to smart glasses. Smart glasses often look like regular glasses and some of them have built-in cameras. Even if you don't wear smart glasses, it's helpful to know what it looks like when someone who is wearing them is taking a photo or video. One way someone can activate their camera is by tapping the capture button on the frame. Another way is by using a voice command like take a photo. So now you know a bit more about smart glasses. A message from Metta and Esiel or Luxotica. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the Ninth and Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello. Good morning to you. It is Monday the 11th of April and it is four minutes past nine and you welcome along to the first Ninth and Noon Show of the week and it's a shorter week for us this week. Friday being Good Friday. Anyway, we have a very busy show for you today.  You can watch the program if you wish. Go to our website, highlandradio.com. You'll see a link to watch it there. Or you can watch us on Twitter, Highland Radio on Facebook, Highland Radio News and Sport or Highland Radio there as well. And on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland, whichever way you decide to be with us, we very much welcome it. Okay.  What do you want to talk about? We've a busy show lined up as always but still plenty of space to talk about issues concerning you. 08, 660, 25,000. That's the WhatsApp. That's the WhatsApp. That is the text number. Or call 07491 25,000. Right. We're going to have a look at the newspapers.  He's a funny enough guy. You're in that into that type of thing. He was on The Late Late Show on Friday.  Housing Minister. And then you get all his angry tweets. And that has been... Have you been getting a lot of cursing tweets? He's not going to go red hard on me. And it was just the day I opened up Twitter and it's like, I said, what?  The situation doesn't go as good. I'm really sorry because I don't know what happened. He didn't go up and look at this. Does that work? The other way, does the Minister get these texts going, you were deadly last night? All right. So of course, comedians have a fair bit of latitude. It's not, people, comedians will pick on things that are quite sensitive to people. I mean, obviously Ryan Taubarty himself, he found it hilarious. But he would have had people affected by it on his program, probably knows that it's not really a laughing matter. But as I say, comedians make jokes on the face of it. There's no harm with a bit of crack. That being said, I took that audio from Dara O'Brien, the housing minister's Twitter, because obviously comedians make jokes about current issues in that regard. It might have been funny. But what seems to have upset people is the housing minister himself recording his TV, recording that joke in inverted commas, and then posting it on his social media, apologizing to the comedian with a couple of laughing faces. No, I'm not sure if anyone's ever been apologized to appear for the mess that they find themselves in in their homes. So that is what I think. And I'm pretty clear on it that people found inappropriate that the housing minister inserted himself into the joke and shared it when in that context you could ask, is it a laughing matter for a minister? And I think the answer is clearly no. A comedian can make a joke. It's a laughing matter. Maybe even gets the issue being talked about again. But the housing minister making a joke of it, is that funny? And I think the answer there is no. But his tweet's still up. He's standing by it obviously clearly. He doesn't think it's something that's too offensive. But what do you think? Either way, by the way, maybe you think that, you know, I don't think there's any point in debating Dara O'Brien's joke in that, you know, he shares the name with the housing minister. He's getting the abuse. He wakes up going, God, what did I do to Donnie Gaul? I think that's fair enough. I don't think there's any controversy there, is there? But what do you think then, if the housing minister videoing this on his TV and then apologizing to Dara O'Brien with a couple of smiley faces, is that appropriate? What do you think? And the answer can be yes or no, by the way, 08, 6, 60, 25,000. I'm not trying to lead anyone down a particular garden path. But I know there was a lot of anger on social media. I was angry about it too, to be honest with you. I might as well just nail my collar to the mast rather than try and pretend otherwise, because I've spoken publicly about this already. Okay, right. Now I'm just wondering, you know, if he said, I don't want, I can't give the obvious examples because I don't want to offend anyone. But there's obviously other things that are happening, other issues the housing minister is dealing with, that clearly you could not joke about, you could not. It would be seen as incredibly offensive. Now, it just, you'd make you wonder if he's got a real sense of what people are actually going through up here. But anyway, the Donnie Gaul News this morning, a letter from Kenny Principle, whose school has welcomed 19 Ukrainian students, has appealed to the Education Department to provide urgent extra resources. 19 Ukrainian students started at Errol Good College, letter Kenny on Monday last, and have been settling into school life here. The school has been providing extra English classes and pastoral support for the students, but unfortunately, additional resources and funding from the Education Department have not yet been forthcoming. The Dairy News this morning. There will be 14 names on the ballot paper when voters in the full constituency go to the polls in the upcoming assembly election. Two of the sitting MLA seeking a return to storm into contesting an election for the first time, Sinn Féin's Padre de Largi and Kira Ferguson, having been co-opted by the party to replace Martina Anderson and Karen Mullen last year. It'll be interesting to see how that pans out onto the Irish Independent now. And as predicted done this program on Thursday, almost word for word, Tony Hulhan opted not to take the role with Trinity, saying that it was his decision and that he didn't want to, he didn't want the controversy to reflect poorly on the government or civil servants, i.e. those that made the decision and indeed Trinity. So as soon as night follows day, it's all becoming incredibly predictable now. They obviously thought that the public wouldn't get a hold of it. They did. And here we are. A report by the controversial top civil servant at the Department of Health will admit that the final financial details of Chief Medical Officer Tony Hulhan's secondment to Trinity College were not fully worked out. Secondments, by the way, are temporary. This was a permanent move. The report by Secretary General at the Department of Health Robert Watt to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly will say that Dr Hulhan's salary was going to be covered by research funding from a Department of Health quango to be applied for by Trinity College. Details of the report which is due to be published today comes amid mounting political pressure over the handling of the process. Junior Health Minister Ann Rabbit has stated it will be a shame to lose Dr Hulhan from the public service. We'll look at, I'm sure he can apply for other jobs that become available like is normal if he wants a job, create the job or vacate the job and advertise it and Tony Hulhan can advertise along with it, can apply along with everyone else and he'll get the job presumably but that's the way things are supposed to work. Now, obviously Stephen Donnelly came out and made a very strong defence of this move last week. He said that this was good. He was saying, listen, look away, there's nothing to see here. This is the same public money in the Department of Health going to Trinity College. It's great, it happens all the time as it turns out. It really is quite controversial so we will see how it pans out and what impactive any it might have on the Minister for Health. On to the Irish Times now and there are acute concerns in government about capacity to house Ukrainian refugees with the available supply of housing and B&B places almost exhausted. While senior officials said facilities such as large halls with camp beds and tents were unlikely to be required before Easter, sources were unwilling to rule them out beyond that a scramble for additional sources of accommodation is underway across all forms of government and local authority with an emergency summit of the construction and property industry due to be held today by Minister for Housing Dara O'Brien. Now, clearly obviously they're not going to be able to build houses in the timeframe required so it seems that they're going to go looking at holiday homes asking people to give up their holiday homes for a period of time. Now I wonder how many people might be inclined to do that particularly I suppose given the fact that maybe over the last couple of years they haven't had an opportunity to visit them themselves but also there's a financial element of it I mean I presume bed and breakfasts and hotels are doing very well out of it the construction industry is going to do very well out of building homes obviously. Are people going to be paid to make their homes available because it might become more of an optional more attractive if that were to happen it just doesn't seem to be a conversation that's happening you know they're talking about maybe a payment of €300 but with the price of home heating all in what have you if that's how you happen to heat your holiday home you know and then of course there'd have to be repair costs when people move out if that's normal by the way. Why will people in great numbers do that when other areas are being well rewarded for doing their but I don't know I think that's the problem that's what I see is the problem for them but anyway at the same time the first face-to-face meeting between a European Union leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin president since the start of the invasion of Ukraine is to take place when Austrian Chancellor Karl Nermar travels to Moscow the move comes as the White House urged the brutality the brutality against civilians in Ukraine was not just down to random acts by individual soldiers but formed part of the overall plan by Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine. On to the Irish Daily Mail now anger at move to ban sale of turf giving turf for the fire to friends and neighbors is to be outlawed by Green Party leader Eamon Ryan so you can't share your turf if you have it. The traditional roaring turf fire could become a thing of the past for the majority of homes under plans by the climate and environmental minister. The sale and distribution of turf will be banned from September 1st as part of the proposed new regulations on solid fuels so not only will you not be able to sell your turf to your neighbors if that's something that you did you cannot maybe give 20 bags to your family or friends that is actually going to be a crime giving your turf to a family friend or neighbor is actually going to be a crime what do you think of that. The rules are expected to spark fury though amongst rural phenophol and phenogel TDs and senators who are already in revolt over the increasingly imperious style of the Green Party coalition partners did we ever think we'd get to a stage that moving turf it's okay for personal use but to sell or give it away would become a crime did we ever think we'd ever be in that position that's where we are speaking of crime. The Irish Daily Star tells us that where is it now on this side yeah Daniel Kinnehan who's obviously got his reputation here he's got a reputation in boxing as well as a deal maker he deals with all the big boys Frank Warren and all of them he deals with all of them but anyway Daniel Kinnehan is to be hit with worldwide sanctions as part of a massive international crackdown on his crime cartel it has emerged the star has learned that Kinnehan is to have assets frozen and be placed on a no fly list which means he won't be allowed on two planes it's a massive operation against him as Sol said last night Guardi have been mounting an international operation against the 44 year old for almost five years that has been working with cops in Britain and America and elsewhere in the world Sol says told the star that Guardi have now secured cooperation to seize control of bank accounts and other assets that investigators say are linked to the double owner the man who leads Ireland's most ruthless and dangerous drugs cartel but as I say is seen as outside of Ireland as someone who's really quite respectable in the boxing game it'll be interesting to see how this latest move if it comes to pass impacts him his business or his business partners we've been talking about this for a while and it's about to happen Guardi will be allowed to wear a body cams this year what do you think the pilot program will be announced today by Justice Minister Helen McInty at the Associate of Association of Guard of Sergeant and Inspector's Annual Conference the Commission on the Future of Policing recommend introducing the body cams more than four years ago but the kit will only be introduced to some Guard of Divisions this year after finally getting the go ahead following long delays but as I say what do you think about this it depends on on the accessibility to the record as well I mean you have an interaction with Guardi you want to ensure that it's from both perspectives or that you have access to it if need be I don't know but what do you think as I say and finally by the way if you are down in Dublin today or heading down to Dublin or in fact perhaps over the next couple of weeks maybe it's for a hospital appointment or the airport or something you might need to allow yourself some extra time because there is a big protest which is taking place convoys of trucks they're set to bring traffic mayhem today as part of a fuel price rise protest and it's not just truck drivers school bus drivers farmers and the general public all involved in this they have set they have set targets they want aim and rhyme gone they want a maximum price for all fuels those are their red lines and they say they will continue to block a Dublin until they are we've seen this in other countries as well until those those demands are met they will not leave Dublin they say until the demands have met as I mentioned the truckers part of the people of Ireland against fuel prices movement held two similar demos before Christmas under a different name convoys of trucks would you to gather on the main approaches to the city this morning on the m1 m4 m7 and close to the m11 m50 junctions and move slowly towards the city centre in a facebook post a spokesperson said we are a group of truck companies struggling to stay afloat we have come together with farmers boss companies taxis and the public to protest at the price of being in business the cost of living is not affordable we are in crisis and as I say they are scheduled to continue with that protest for at least a week and beyond until their demands are met obviously the people of Dublin and those traveling to it and out of it are inconvenienced but they I'm sure would argue that the means justify the ends as I say I'll just give you one more reminder of the numbers here just before the break 08 6 60 25 000 what saps on texts on anything we've discussed or what you want to bring up yourself or call carline on 07 4 9 1 25 000 the 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sparing the time to talk with us this monday morning and it's off the back of a walk at ards forest park can you tell us um what it used to be like and what you're witnessing now yeah well saturday was such a beautiful day and we took a walk down to ards um about the area of kasha more behind what those symmetry is and um it's where i go very often and um i used to go mushroom picking there and i used to take a lot of friends out there to teach them about mushrooms and there's a beautiful picnic area there's some steps up to a height you know and my son absolutely loves to there but the whole forest is gone it's it's it's has been completely cleared it even took out you know all the broadleaf trees everything is gone and it's not being just clear felt it's been absolutely savaged and uh i am just utterly shocked uh that this is possible in ards forest that this has been treated by culture in such a savage way it looks from the pictures that you've sent in it looks like you know three months after a wildfire or something like that there do you get where i'm coming from yeah i'm a getting yeah that's what it yeah um and and these trees are not free are these trees as far as you can determine that are grown for cutting down in use yeah well they took down all the logs down the side there would be sold on but um i you know i saw i saw last year that some of the trees started to get numbered and i thought it would just simply you know spinning out the forest would make sense you know and as well as some of the conifers there they weren't going well and it's good for the forest if they get a bit of thinning out but what they have engaged in is a completely eradication of the place it's completely gone but if it was grown for a purpose though Christina and it's reached the maturity and now it's being cleared uh to fulfill that purpose and to be replaced and replenished i mean you just got used to it during a process just i'm trying to be as fair as i can to all parties Christina oh i understand that but um you know as far as as far as very important especially after covid getting out into nature and you know don't go doesn't really have a lot of areas of mature trees there isn't you know that many woodlands where we can go to and surprisingly when you think about it we should be you know there should be every which way you turn but there aren't that many easily accessible uh woodlands really yeah you know i looked into a culture's um website and the stating like the purpose of culture is like we are passionate about our core purpose to enrich lives locally nationally and globally through innovative and sustainable management of our natural resources i mean what's sustainable and innovative about this um again though and i've kind of with a story we were covering a couple of weeks ago about trees being cut down i'm kind of now wondering at all options in advance is it possible that these trees were infected that these trees were dying and uh you know there are an awful lot of things going around that are very damaging to trees and they said you know this could be but now we are going to find out for you Christina yeah maybe maybe maybe these trees were infected with something or other as i say that's why trees have been cut down in the past absolutely yeah maybe that that would be something that culture could you know clear up if there was some sort of disease in those trees there but um you know not not many areas support like such a huge environment for a huge different variety of mushrooms to grow in and but once such heavy machinery goes on the ground like that it thickens the the forest floor and i'm sure of course i imagine shade is a factor and humidity in all manner of thing that's all gone and if it is disease um every single tree is gone uh so you know if that were the argument i would have thought maybe could be a bit more selective tree standing there so and i left some of the large conifers along the side gone but they have taken down the hazels and they have taken down a sweet chestnut tree some of the beaches they were really large and uh i don't know they didn't look disease to me and i've been spending you know my life in forests and uh it's just you know you don't have many areas in art forests or anywhere where you have such a huge environment for mushrooms to grow and i took Kirin Svinje off the old clan bar in restaurant there last year and he was filming there for a little life cooking event that he was engaging in later that year and um you know like the whole place is gone you can't go mushroom picking there anymore or even teaching people about it and um you know it's it's a real loss yeah and even if it is to be replanted you're talking you're talking years really for it to reach yeah like it's gone from my generation and i doubt that my son's generation will see a good you know forest there and especially up there the platform with there's a height you know and you can go up the stairs to a beautiful a picnic area and what are you looking from there now on it's it's nothing you know there's nothing there and you would say this this for for how it appears this is not careful uh no it's not it doesn't look to me sustainable or innovative or you know carefully managed it's just gone in with such savagery and i think you pay the point too that if these trees were you know still functioning and you know in terms of cleaning our air and what have you uh the timing of it couldn't be worse given the fact that we're being told to shower less yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah you know like don't shower too long but there we go and and shop down entire forests and uh uh you know like private people now they're not allowed to clip their headsets or you know you cannot cut bark anymore but there like whole area gets cleared well it's illegal now if you do have turf do not give it away christina because that's actually going to be illegal from september the first if i call to your house and you you can't hand me a bag of you might as well bag hand me a bag of drugs but if you did that's that's where we're at now okay and and this is one of those ones christina because even if we get an explanation whatever the reason is is it's lost now you know so we can't fix it we can't return it cannot be brought back and it's just it's a shame and it's a huge loss for all of us yeah and you know like falsher island was planning i don't know if this is still in the in the pipeline but falsher island is planning a huge project in the arts to make it more accessible for tourism but with a minimum impact on the environment and what's tourist are going to look there and like if they take that path along arts you know and well now yeah some callers calls are coming in though and and pointing out reasons why one caller says christina this is only a small area of arts forest park and there are loads of other areas in the park for the likes of picnics and mushrooms and another caller said and i kind of said this to you at the start that these trees were set to be cut down so you got used to them maybe mid-process they were grown which is really quite sustainable if that's what's happening they were grown for wood cut down and then they'll be regrown i mean that's sustainable forestry isn't it christina even though if it's quite a bit of a shock and awe to look at yeah i don't know about that you know if a huge area is getting cleared like that it's it's gone it's like for me personally it was an easy accessible forest to go to i put walking disability and i cannot walk very far and this was just the place that offered it all you know and you know you just can't bring it back and there's not there's not a whole lot of areas in arts where there is such a huge variety of mushrooms there not from what i have seen and i've i've you know checked many areas and arts for them and this was very special place for this and this is gone all right listen thanks for your time christina for highlighting that with us as i say i saw your pictures and it's it's unfortunately but we're hearing some reasons as to why it may have been the case or not but we'll get a statement from quiltshire and pass it on to you and as another person said you know maybe there's other areas of the forest to explore but thanks for your time this morning yeah just i hope that don't you know continue in arts like understood i get you i get away coming from all right lovely stuff thank you christina 08 660 25 000 nice to see so many of you listening and getting in touch on a monday morning uh greg why do you not get the spokesperson for the green party in donagall to come on the show and explain the green's position on this new law this is the turf law listen yeah of course we'll invite him on no problem this government plans to ban you from giving away a bag of turf yet they will allow you to land fishing kilobags they will not allow you to land fishing kilobags for human consumption and you have to send 40 lorries at a time from kilobags to dairy to bring the fish by role to kilobags carbon footprint this government has lost the plot you know it's a lot of uh yeah listen you've made your point and and it's it's a legitimate one no doubt about that uh this quarter says i attended the fishing public meeting on saturday in kilobags as someone who's lived in kilobags my entire life and was brought up on fishing it was encouraging sorry it was enraging listening to the minister talk in circles without answering any questions in a straight manner then he said he had full confidence in the department officials and the sfpa this is absolutely ridiculous i left that meeting angry the minister had the opportunity to tell us he would fight for us he was he has obviously forgotten the people in this canty pot him where he is we will make sure he never has that opportunity again there'll be very few votes for charlie or finafall in the uh area going forward another caller says it's ridiculous that the drivers are being fined every 30 minutes for blocking the city is there no longer the right to peaceful protest i um haven't seen that i think i think in terms of of peaceful i don't know about the fines by the way i haven't seen that yet but in terms of peaceful process protest i think that's perfectly fine i'm not sure you can it it's fully peaceful if you uh seal off a city if you know what i mean i don't think that might be where they're getting them i don't know many of the people coming from ukraine are coming from big cities in my area 15 came and the next day nine left again these people are not used to rural island and bringing them here is not suitable to them more thought needs to be given to the sustainability of where they are being left uh a caller says uh tell that girl she has to discover murva in our area to me it's a fairy tale woods fabulous pine trees over a hundred years old beach there too great it is murva is beautiful you just wonder sometimes if you'd land to murva one day would it all be cleared or parts of it cleared i don't know uh grown for a purpose question mark says a caller culture cannot manage our state land they plant the wrong trees in the wrong place good luck with trying to contact them the trees should have been cut by hand not heavy machinery why are you trying to defend the invincible culture are brutal not defending the indefensible simply just having trying to have a full conversation covering all bases i'm not in the business of defending culture a caller says if hotels are getting paid a blank check to take people in from the ukraine people who own private residents who take people in should also be compensated also we've a housing crisis going on at the moment for micro homeless etc and this not cannot be put on the back burner and then there's more comments that have come in on various issues including before tony hoolen's announcement about his decision not to take that position his 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couple of guests joining us now first we'll say good morning to kathleen kathleen how are you how are you keeping not too bad all right okay uh you had an experience uh with the the local hospital at the weekend letter candy university hospital can you tell us how events unfolded for you yeah um we were suggested to go down or stand to go down to um letter candy hospital on friday evening by no dock um so we headed down and we had arrived about half past it to have to crowd it crowded emergency can i ask before we get into the like do you think you've been sent to now that was justifiable or could you've got an appointment and got it sorted i don't want any personal information kathleen but what's your sense on that at the time yeah i thought although it wasn't an extreme emergency um i thought be in the weekend um personally i didn't want to leave it okay trying to get a doctor's appointment on monday morning right so eight thirty five p.m on friday night you land into the hospital yeah so we um checked in or whatever we were she was my daughter was triaged about um half past nine we then it was so packed we asked could we go out and sit in the monday with hot which was fine we went inside out there at 20 to um 20 to midnight 20 to 12 they come out to tell us that they had color coded files that was extremely busy there's approximately 70 people in the emergency room that's behind the door there's another 20 people in the emergency waiting area they color coded their files we were color coded green which meant you know thankfully it wasn't severe you know but we were still there for a reason and we were expecting a 12 to 14 hour wait okay right so a minimum of 12 hours one of the options might be if it was if it was practical is to go home and then come back that's not doable not doable and i asked what happens if i go home now we live 40 minutes away so you know you wouldn't take that choice late like um and they said no if you do come back and if you do go home and come back then you start off from scratch in the morning all right what about access to food water that kind of stuff yeah no now we did bring a few snacks like nothing nothing major um brought water ourselves and i just said you know what about food you know is anything supplied and she's just no well nothing was supplied um even to go out you know when to go around to the canteen you'd have to go out you know i'd still have to leave my daughter which was a minor um and what happens if she was called you know and that's maybe our that i was away you know to to get up because you can't there's no access now anymore from the emergency room into the you know into the canteen uh due to the other side being closed for covid so i phone my husband discussed it with him and for the safety of my my daughter i felt it was safer for actually to be at home um and get food you know um so that's what we did we got home we drove home i went to the the receptionist told her that we were leaving and asked her to take us off the list we got home just uh maybe just before one a.m. got something to eat went to bed and at 20 to four the phone rang so you can imagine my alarm was 20 to four and it was letter kenny hoff but i'm looking for my daughter so even after i told them we were going home um they phone them you know to say well where is she right so well inside the 12 hours uh and also you had advised them that you were uh going to take her home that you may be content enough with the initial assessment and weighing everything up you thought get her home get some sleep get her something to eat in the morning and take it from there yes exactly okay um and in in terms of staffing uh you talked about 70 plus 20 maybe more 90 odd people uh what was the staffing levels like as far as you could determine i couldn't determine anything um in fairness and you know any staff that i did talk to you know was more than nice and apologetic um no because we went out to the hut you don't really see um anyone you know anyone being called i think they just call when you when you go out to the hut you have to tell them in reception the receptions that you're going out there so that they only call you if you're out you know you don't hear everybody they call if you understand me so i don't know how quick they were calling people there's only two other mothers and myself out in the hut with their um with their children um one moved in after a while because the seats became available um but you know when you're not well i don't know who designed the emergency room um the seats are metal not very very i've done two 12-hour shifts on them myself they're yeah incredibly uncomfortable yeah yeah and everyone's crammed in on you know on that side of the the um petition um obviously much the conversation over the weekend we were part of it on friday and thursday and and of course the newspaper has been tony hoolen's appointment and the hsc's handling of that i mean from your perspective that much at must must actually feel like a distraction really it's nothing in the wider scale of things we should be focusing continued focusing on the hsc's accountability to the actual hospital service itself yeah yeah you know like i can i can appreciate um their under pressure and everything's going on you know we're on them and i can appreciate maybe they can't get the stuff but the problem lies what my opinion is one of the problem lies in the fact that you know we're we're trying to promote in our country all work from home covid has really opened up you know the idea of work hubs you know coming to rural ireland but nobody's looking at the infrastructure that's actually there nobody's looking at the health services there like more and more people are coming and moving to donnie gall um and you were spoke earlier um i heard you saying you know even about the poor ukrainians that are coming so it's more and more people and they're going to have health issues um so you know the hospital is not big enough the capacity is not there um you know to um you know to to take people on you know um my other daughter had an injury probably about seven or eight weeks ago um needed an x-ray we waited 10 hours you know from start to finish that should have happened in your local community hospital reading well this is it and you know in the thing was if they had said well we can get you know you can get your x-ray tomorrow morning in your local hospital community hospital as you say is that all right but that's what we did 20 years ago yeah uh i remember that like that's you know stitches or all that type of stuff if you get that done in general time now if they did an x-ray and there was something wrong i presume maybe you get you would say look you're gonna have to go up there but you were being seen in the first instance locally and i think probably you know eight or nine times out of ten that would do yeah and when i talked to the radiologist when i was down with the other daughter she did say like there should be some kind of a system like a major's and a minor's you know that you can so the ones that are very unwell and you know have the space to set you know and have the space to be treated because you've got people in there with uh suspected heart attacks or stroke and i've sat beside them myself i'm not making it up and then others sitting there with a twisted ankle uh is it ligative ligament damage or is it broken those are to sort of have one queuing behind the other it it's one size doesn't fit all as you say there there should be major a minor yeah like they're building a car and don't have its own you know x-ray service they've just built this new medical center in bunkrana you know that's going to have an x-ray service but those are only x-ray services by appointments from my understanding i know car and knock by emergency you know or by you know even if as you said if they could do it in the local hospital you know if it happened on a wednesday night say well sure you go in tomorrow between one and two and they'll do an x-ray well cathleen listen thanks for helping us highlight it um i hope everything's okay yep you didn't have the best weekend now well sure it's grand as long as she's all right that's all that matters but he's not just disappointing for the people at unigol that's what it comes down to all right that they're okay but i appreciate uh you helping us uh highlight this tara joins us as well hi tara good morning greg how are you i'm fine um you had uh your experience with lu h this time it was uh you were with your dad is that right tell us what happened yeah my dad was admitted um three weeks ago he's um been waiting on surgery for a year and a half which has been cancelled twice in letter kenny hospital he's been promised it about seven times and he was referred to another hospital in dublin and he was getting the surgery done there and his consultant in letter kenny had cancelled it and said no that he would do through the surgery um the day before the surgery the consultant cancelled the surgery again in letter kenny sent him home three days later he was admitted again back into letter kenny hospital he's in severe pain constantly um he needs irrigation every day uh he's been accepted into gallway hospital it'll be two weeks past on friday and he still hasn't been transferred and that's that that's something presumably someone has to sign off on a decision has to be formalized that's what we're talking about there i presume a team has to say right we're not going to do it we'll hand it over to our colleagues in gallway yeah that has been done and he's been accepted by a consultant in gallway to to do the surgery but the problem is he keeps saying there's no beds there's no beds and as i said he's sitting in letter kenny now this last three weeks um last friday he waited on a doctor from friday till monday afternoon um which is completely unacceptable as an inpatient in the hospital and he's been effectively an inpatient there for three years now yeah he has this operation resolved many of these issues tara yes it will yes it must be incredibly the word frustrations almost overused it's heartbreaking because if this was done on day one where would you all be now you wouldn't be on talking to me and he wouldn't be have have endured three three years of pain and discomfort yeah that's correct yeah and and listen there's a litany of stuff here um that that you've experienced you've talked about the cancellations uh potentially having it in Dublin then that being cancelled locally i don't know how all that works uh hard to contact uh uh the team um and then his general experience over the last three years you talk of uh pain caused to him because of how his uh cathart was um cathart was changed that it wasn't done correctly um accessing drinks which are available at the hospital but happen to head out to a chemist like it's one thing it's a litany now it's over a long period of time but it seems to be like one thing after another to the point can i ask in your heart of hearts do you feel these in safe hands at the moment i don't feel it is in safe hands no we as a family are incredibly worried and concerned about the care that he's getting at letter kenny hospital he's also had covid and recovered from it as well in that did he catch that in the hospital yeah he contracted covid a week after he was admitted and now he's on day 12 sorry day 14 of his covert thankfully it didn't affect him badly good but the the standard of care like having to ring nurse management at a quarter to nine at night to get irrigation hooked up you know it's it's completely unacceptable like the two incidents with the catheter where instead of the the catheter being released it was blew up which caused significant pain and still quite a bit of pain ongoing since that issue a week and a half ago and the same thing happened on tuesday yeah when i catheter again and that i can imagine it causes great discomfort yeah great discomfort pain and bleeding as well oh god help him um so you want him presumably in go away getting this operation just as soon as possible as soon as possible he needs the he needs the surgery urgently um we're at the stage where we can't take him home because he needs to be on irrigation now every day can i ask with the these instances you talked about the last one um issues as it relates to getting dietary supplements and having to head out even though they're available in the hospital because staff wouldn't give them to him that's your claim like has have you spoken to anyone in management has anyone said this is not acceptable or even said i'm sorry this shouldn't have happened like is anyone accountable as such in your view i've brought it to the attention of the ward managers as such because dad was in a short stay ward first and then transferred to another ward and i've brought it to the attention of the ward managers and you know the answer is oh gosh that's terrible like the the first issue with the catheter was to be dealt with under management i haven't heard anything back from that and neither has my dad all right when do you know uh if and when he'll get his operation in go away um well we're hoping that it will be this week but they they can't they won't give us a day they keep saying there's no bad no bad and i mean obviously all our thoughts are with with what your dad is going through he must feel like a an experiment at this stage you know the way he's being passed around and i don't mean that in any way uh with humor i mean literally it must feel like that um but the wider family this impacts on everyone the head of the household really effectively uh going through this for such a long period of time it's a huge pressure on all of you it's not just him though that's who are our principal concern with it's all of you um and of course you're probably at your wits and before you speak to me as well if the truth be told you know like my dad has said to me that he's lost over a stone and weight in the last three weeks you know which isn't good he's stressed he's worried it's affecting his mental health yeah an awful awful lot at this stage it's hard to keep it together yeah right and it's very very difficult okay well listen um fingers crossed he gets he gets that appointment gets in and gets that operation done as quickly as possible and gets home to us yeah hopefully okay listen um i appreciate your time there's much more detail in your email um we because there's processes we have to to go through this certain things we can and can't say just at this point but we appreciate you giving us the outline of it texts are coming in saying we've had similar experiences these patient surveys tell us that all's good down there but my experience of talking to people like yourself and many many others is that their experiences is very different tarah yeah it is i'm waiting on a call since um friday morning from one of the bed managers and i still haven't received that call is this in gallway or letter kenny letter kenny okay letter kenny um and what would that call be for uh tarah pardon migrants um the the guy is supposed to be management he's head management over the bed managers in the hospital and i just wanted to discuss what is the possibility of getting a bed in gallway or what is the holdup you just want answers yeah we just you know we just want answers if they come back to us and say yes your father will get a bed next tuesday that would change things for dad and ourselves yeah well he'd have a target so he could maybe hopefully uh get his head around that and of course for it i get that a hundred percent stay in touch with us tarah let's know what goes on okay um and uh as i say i just pass on our best wishes to your father if you speak into him um i'm sure that's not just for me that's from others as well and i hope he gets solved just as uh or resolved as soon as possible so he can get start getting better because he can't at the moment yeah he's getting worse okay listen thank you tarah best wishes best wishes i've appreciated uh mom who's 90 years old we took her to the ed this is a lady now who's 90 years of age and you know you can only imagine how much he's contributed to this country over those 19 years and will continue to do so she waited 10 hours for treatment all they did was glue her cut we found the actual treatment very unsatisfactory very little care given to her at her age 90 years now there are specific targets for treating people aged over a certain age uh and this listeners mom well above that age and 10 hours well beyond those targets hi greg had an appointment last week in the hospital in dublin for an operation when i asked do i ring uh the day before see have they a bed i was told no come and the bed uh come and be bad for you when you get to dublin i was told no bed and go home right so they rang in advance was there a bed just come the beds there got there no bed away up the road again crazy stuff all together and all the while you know we have private hospitals uh on this island who have no end of staff that can do really complex operations in no time at all and that is a private system and the hsc pays into that as well through the uh refund scheme and then we've got this other area of health that seems like an absolute uh well i'll try and choose my words more carefully that's serious serious issues with so it's about money it's all organization you know i don't know it's it's not acceptable at magies.ie you can create gallery quality art on canvas from your favorite photo direct from your phone laptop or pc simply upload your favorite photo and have it printed on canvas transformed into gallery quality art for as little as 44.95 deliver to your door ready to hang big picks small prices at magies.ie this is the new toyota yaris cross a new kind of suv a new point 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euro and 45 numbers or less if you're not in you can't win halfway house burn food highland radio weather updates with ireland west airport thinking of a sun holiday with the family you can now fly to barcelona three times weekly this summer with ryan air and enjoy some of europe's best family campsites ireland west airport you're flying okay so the weather forecast today reads as follows this morning mostly dry and cloudy though outbreaks of rain will move northwards over the area this afternoon and there may be some heavy and thundery bursts they'll be followed by scattered showers breezy with moderate to fresh east to southeast winds occasionally strong temperatures 10 to 12 degrees our next guest on the program is diane diane uh good morning to you good morning son uh nice break here you was no no that's perfectly fine diane great no no it's just for you it's not i don't mind it's just so you know i've been called an awful lot worse even as recently as this weekend your experience was a hard one started getting chest pains yeah um went on chest pains and um her short after five and i had to wait for about an hour nine and a half for the priors nurse so after so the triage nurse was sent back there to gain weight and um i would say it was about two three hours after that i got some blood done and an ecg and um i was told i was a priority patient because um was the chest pains and the heaviness in my chest and i says well you know i don't i don't want to be priority over children there's a lot of children waiting there a lot of elderly and i was told that i couldn't decide where i was on it but anyway that was okay um i had the bloods done on ecg and the nurse called me and he had more bloods done about three or four hours later and the doctor had seen me and he said that the the bloods were okay and ecg was okay i just needed to get the thing out of my arm and i could go home then so um the nurse um called me back in again and i said to her what the doctor had said she's oh no i don't think so i don't think you're for a home you need to have another ecg done so that was fine had another ecg done and she said about an hour and a half an hour before the blood results would be back so i waited and this was like this was five six o'clock and still no word of blood nobody came near me so i asked if they asked if they didn't know what was happening and it was told it was next it was too in front of me and then i would be next and i waited for another or so and they said no you're next so um nothing still nobody calling any was packed when i was down there there's nobody left except me and one of the year and she was called to be admitted so the quarter to nine quarter to eight um i went up to reception and i said i have to go home i have to take my daughter to work um i could wait until a quarter past nine but that's as long as i can wait so so that um a medical doctor would need to see me to do an ecg by the nurse a third one and no not a medical doctor would see the ecg oh read it okay yeah read it and um send for me um as an outpatient for a stress ecg so at a quarter to nine um i knocked on the triers nurse's door and i said i can't wait any longer i really need to go home and i was actually quite upset at that stage and he was told he said you know just take a seat and um we'll see if whatever we can get you seen but there's nothing at a quarter past nine i just had to get up and go and um on the way up the road the doctor rang me to say that he was here to see me but he said you know i prefer to see but we're all in the appointment for you as an outpatient so i sat for about five hours just waiting to hear that i just think there's management is a big problem in their major issue um you know patients just need to be kept updated to not one telling them one thing and another one telling them something else yeah and one doesn't know what the other one's doing or who they're seeing like i just don't know is there an allocation of of staff and no they're very short staff and the county is getting an awful a bit there but um even a member of staff that mentioned to me about how short staff there were and in another department in golly at the same size of a department 16 people are on that night where there's four and that are kind of unbelievable dan do you know now if you're okay or do you have to um well i have to wait now and have a stress ccg don't put the chest it was a heaviness a weight on my chest to book me up a few times during the night another issue as the name's been called patients like doctors come out with the masks on their everywhere mask obviously and um you know just even to hear the name if it's if it's an English speaking doctor but some of them they're English it wouldn't be the best and that's things that pronunciation wouldn't be the best that's not there like that that's not the issue it's just you can't hear what they're saying yeah it's not an effective system it's it's not an effect we need a loud speaker to have the name called clear link people mess out their space and another thing and then i'll let you go as there should be priority for children and elderly there was about eight children there that night and they were so good but the poor wee children having to sit and no food a lot of them were wee boys from school and i'm sure he didn't have much and he was waiting for a bed and peed to get his appendix out and he had to sit to six o'clock in the morning from four in the afternoon now there's nearly always beds and peeds and an elderly man sat on a wheelchair for about four and a half hours who had to go to theater actually asked the reception could they take him in front of me he had a broken hip he had a fallen and he came in and now he was in a lot of pain but he was he was nodding and i think the summer whoever was with them thought he was he was falling forward sometimes like sitting in the hard-wheat chair it was just a bit much after coming in from a fall listen dan i hope everything works all right with works out for you thanks for for helping us highlight you all right take care of yourself dan thank you apologies heading to the news two minutes late but obviously that's a very important call we'll be back with more after the news and the obituary notices live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news thanks Greg good morning the foreign affairs minister says the EU is working to cut off the sale of russian oil to the block simon coveney is in luxembourg today to discuss the latest round of sanctions against russia speaking on his way into that meeting minister coveney outlined irland's position the european union is spending hundreds of millions of euros on importing oil from russia that is certainly contributing to financing this war and in our view we need to cut off that financing of war even though it creates huge challenges and problems for the EU to solve together a survey has revealed that the fish weighing debacle at kelly bags is adversely affecting the southwest dunny gall economy the figures compiled by the irish fish processors and exporters association shows that hundreds of homes and workers are being impacted by the ongoing issue tara duggan has more the association says the 239 households are directly affected by the turning away of vessels from kelly bags this in turn is impacting up to 300 seasonal workers directly with to date 1773 working days lost to them collectively the ifpa has described the situation as a devastating blow to seasonal workers who've witnessed their duration of work already eroded due to brexit tca cuts in their fish quota the association is also warning that if kelly bags can't function in line with other EU fishery harbors or ports it will be placed at a competitive disadvantage due to what it says is an unfair interpretation of EU rules and regulations by a combination of the department of the marine and the sfpa the ifpa says this will ultimately lead to job losses and further devastating impacts for the wider community a dunny gall mother has described the situation at letter kenny university hospital as unsustainable following a weekend visit to the facility cathleen's daughter was instructed to attend the ed on friday night and after a number of hours there staff told her that it could be a further 14 hour wait because her health complaint wasn't classed as urgent the hospital said that if they left they would automatically forego their place in the queue but kathleen and her daughter decided to go home anyway speaking on the nine till noon show a short time ago kathleen envisages the crisis only worsening at the hospital in the time ahead covid has really opened up you know the idea of work hubs you know coming to rural island but nobody's looking at the infrastructure that's actually there nobody's looking at the health services they're like more and more people are coming and moving to dunny gall the poor ukrainians that are coming so it's more and more people and they're going to help have health issues so you know the letter kenny hospital is not big enough the capacity is not there um you know to take people on questions are being asked over why a mica meeting wasn't facilitated between the t-shock and dunny gall candy council me home item was in dunny gall last weekend and met with the number of affected homeowners and the mica action group however it's thought that t-shock should have met with the council too to discuss issues relating to the current 9010 scheme and the upcoming enhanced scheme mica action group p-r-o michael doherty has described it as a missed opportunity dunny gall candy council should have been asking for help should have been saying to the t-shock's office we really need this to happen so as we can explain our cause and under have people understand have the t-shirt understand why this scheme is stalled effectively at the moment that didn't seem to have happened or if it was requested how come it wasn't honored um i'm not sure which the two of us all do know is it didn't happen and it should have happened whether now this morning will be mostly dry and cloudy outbreaks of rain will move northwards over the area this afternoon and there may be some heavy and thundery burst top temperatures of 10 to 12 degrees that's it for now we're back with the headlines for you at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for monday morning the 11th of april the death has taken place of edith kelly clush padrick carondona edith's remains will repose at her home from 12 noon today removal from there tomorrow at 22 11 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in the sacred heart church carondona followed by cremation in lake lands crematorium in cavern the funeral mass can be viewed live on carondona parish dot com the death has taken place of annie ward named mcloskey in her 101st year 56 listener our road donna mana reposing at her home today from 12 noon funeral leaving her home on wednesday morning at 20 past 10 for requiem mass in san patrick's church carondona at 11 o'clock and term it afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations and lua flowers pleased to motor neuron care of quigley funeral directors the requiem mass can be viewed live on the donna heedy parish youtube the death has taken place of harry daugherty ballon temple vulcara and formerly of baltany gortha hork his remains are reposing at his home house private until 11 a.m this morning wake is for family friends and neighbours funeral mass in san finian's church vulcara this afternoon at 1 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjacent cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on the parish webcam and on the cairn roti funeral director facebook page the death has occurred of enna winder little bridge done low her remains are reposing at her home funeral mass this afternoon at 12 noon in san crona's church done low with interment afterwards in maharie cemetery and the death has occurred of bernadette cox aranmore island her remains are reposing at her late residence funeral mass this afternoon in san crones church aranmore at 12 noon with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery house is strictly private to family only please family flowers only please donations if desired to done low district hospital patients comfort fund care of any family member or john mcglenn funeral director for more details including any family health guidelines for weeks and funerals please go to highland radio dot com with all the stories that matter across the north west it's greg hughes on the nine to noon show on highland radio and you're very welcome back to the program still plenty to keep you informed and entertained over the next two hours so we need is your company and your calls and comments to 08 660 25 000 uh whatsapp some texts to that number or call 07 491 25 000 right i was at the meeting in kilibates on saturday evening the minister was an embarrassment to himself and the people of donnie gall he was so far away from the reality of living as a normal person i voted for this man in the last election what a fool i was is the credit for him turning up at that meeting though obviously it's a it would be a anyway i'm sure we'll speak to him later on and try and tease things out for everyone that wasn't at that meeting uh we spent 20 hours in ed this week with an elderly lady over the space of two days waiting to be seen another caller says i think letter kenny ed's been bombarded with people who are getting nowhere with the gp and consultants cancelling appointments were constantly calling 999 for an ambulance at christmas she collapsed while out shopping while in hospital she was sent to doblin after a couple of days home she was sent back to hospital it's just ridiculous there's such a rush to empty beds proper care is not being given another caller hi greg i can relate to this caller about my mom i rang go away hospital myself and i got my mom a bed she had a procedure done all in three days it's all about taking action into your own hands if you know what i mean you have to be firm but nice that comes in from lily thanks for that lily um hi i was uh in for an outpatient clinic last week there was one consultant three nurses doing blood pressure weights etc and stood about as there were only five patients there in one and a half hours that i waited another guy holding the door open complete mismanagement of resources says that caller i'm not sure what that talks to uh more broadly but uh just back from a walk there and must agree with christina reards forest my question is why do you not clear away the dead trees that have been lying there for the past year they are an eyesore to say the least hi greg the quick of this government and the greens get wiped out the better they couldn't run a bath believes one caller uh disgusted with the minister in kilibagues on friday he is on another planet when elected in the program for government it clearly states to reform the sfpa and maintain in factory weighing both have failed three independence reports state that the sfpa is not fit for purposes and no action the whole weighing problem was invented by uh false reports sent by the sfpa to EU commission these reports need to be published charlie needs to go concerned industry employee hi greg the people will have to rise out against the turf ban people need the turf for the fires we can't afford the coal get rid of aim and ryan he's not in touch with the people uh if this is not about cutting your own turf for your own use this is about selling it's argument there i don't know you know what i mean if you're cutting it for your own reason fine but it'll be illegal for you to give it if someone was kind enough to give me 20 bags of turf it would be a crime from september first uh 90 percent of people who cut turf on their own land they have uh turbary rights on it which is titled deans old by the people that is written into the constitution and the green party looking to take it away protest towards the green party should be in their garden and see what they think of that shocking that such a post is created this is tony huland's post that he's not taking shocked that such a post is created without proper process he was given the post without public knowing and on top of that also 30k more than trinity professor should be paying his salaries um trinity sorry it should be paying his salary not taxpayers money every month there's a scandal well this one is uh going away in inverted commas precisely how we predicted it would morning great tony huland um i can't read that one just out as is it's quite a strong accusation log cabin parks in the long term can be turned into revenue after they serve their purpose by being transformed into high-end holiday camps like those in europe this might require too much logic though so it will never happen well you see they're not going to build them out in they're not going to build them out in uh the the great wilds like um that place down in longford what's it called center parks i mean these would be built in urban areas uh with with facilities you know with sewers and all that kind of stuff you know and bon crana letter candy or elsewhere i'm not sure could they be transformed then into high-end holiday camps after the fact i'm not sure maybe they could i'm not saying you can't have a high-end holiday camp in letter candy i just can't see that who would you be marketing that too but i could be very wrong of course hi guys guys i received my government credit on my esp bill of 200 euro my most recent bill is less than that as i move to a different provider i'm wondering will the balance be transferred over to the new provider my understanding is that it will how much uh precious diesel did larry's use up bringing fish from dairy to kelly bags no word of a carbon footprint there yeah indeed uh good morning greg just on fostering you talked about it on um thursday wonderful for children however i hear your guests stress how much they try not to upset stabilisation of children yet we are bringing poor ukrainian children all the way across europe to arland not better to keep these poor children as near as possible to their homes in neighbouring countries i don't see the logic there at all to be honest with you first of all the neighbouring countries cannot take any more people they are they've had their populations uh grown dramatically uh it's a balancing act a sick ukrainian or or not sick whichever ukrainian child in an area which is you know potentially could be clusterbombed or at a train station which could could be clusterbombed or in a safe house maybe not a 100 appropriate for their needs in west arland i know which one i would take it would be the second one that's where i would send my children not to the former uh right okay we need to uh take the bingo numbers and a 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information visit the facebook page or see what's in higher dot ie our next guest is father paddy burin a very good morning to your father paddy thank you so much for joining us good morning greg and greetings to all in the highlands it's good to have you with us right now uh you were uh watching tv or reading i'm not sure how uh olympic medallist kelly harrington uh and you noted her wife mandy lachlan and wish them well on their wedding uh but decided to to talk about you know the church and its role in in not blessing such partnerships so what was the thrust of what you had to say then and why you're actually really paddy father paddy sorry you're okay greg and i suppose the trust of what i'm saying is very much grounded in the week many of your listeners find themselves uh following holy week it's a week where we as christians celebrate that wonderful radical love that somehow the son of god had in a very brutal manner of a death so that we may live with him in love and that permeates everything i stand for as a christian and indeed as a minister of god's gospel so when i looked at that lovely image of kelly and her spouse uh i'm very proud that kelly is such a successful irish olympian but there's something really beautiful that shines more than the gold medal from her she's golden in every sense of the world in her determination to engage with the sick people during the pandemic in her ability to lift hearts and i just thought i'm not sure of whether kelly and her spouse would even want a blessing from church but in my parish in my family as i'm sure all our families who are listening you know gay people are part and parcel of humanity and i think we've progressed in a mighty way and i think you know i feel the god who i believe in uh makes me uneasy with the fact that couples who come to church who participate in life who make a wonderful contribution to their loved ones and family and society are somehow excluded from even a blessing uh i'm not going to sort of critique the the theological nuances of sacramental blessing versus blessing but what i am critiquing is contemporary culture and so i asked the question and i repeat the question to your highland listeners this morning if a padre can bless a car a cow a cat a tractor and i am prohibited from being available to parishioners who come seeking their love just in a way to be recognized to be part and parcel of the life of the christian community i think in a church 2022 where i see unfortunately where i minister wonderful people but very few young people and young people are crying out for authenticity for inclusion for compassion for kindness and let's own that because that's our story so i think what i say ultimately it makes sense is there an argument though that this is the these are the rules of of the church these are the beliefs that's the belief system and if you want to be a part of that even if you know you feel you're being pushed out or not included well that religion is not for you well that church is not for you well the church i belong to it is for me uh the church that pope frances our leader has really tried to ruffle feathers is telling us that you know the day of the black and white certainties is over he's telling us to be out in the field as foot soldiers where people find themselves to be he's telling us love is love love is love and he's reminding us always who am i to judge so i don't i don't want to belong to a little exclusive club yes where people who take the right boxes can come in and those who can't are left out that being said there are some moves within that church to create exactly what you talk of you know if it has to get smaller to to uh to um survive well then so be it i mean i've interviewed people who share that view um what do you think do you the church is not then reflective of what the majority might think be the the clergy i don't know what the majority of clergy might think in this regard all parishioners i don't know um the majority would be in favor of the blessing of of kelly and mandy for example if they wanted to wouldn't so the church is out of touch it's a roundabout way of me saying that well i think there is a certain element of our tradition that needs to be challenged and i think one of the big big um important things for any institution to do is to be aware of where culture is at and i think the culture where we find ourselves particularly among young people particularly among the vast majority of people who live lives is one of compassion and kindness and that is the gospel and therefore while i'm not suggesting or i'm not uh a maverick in terms of go ahead and do it anyway but that i have a responsibility as a priest in a catholic parish down here in county leash to respond pastorally to the good people who i serve and i think i should do that without being afraid or god am i doing the right thing or the wrong thing yeah the guidelines of compassion and just greg one thing that i think some of your listeners would be aware of there is an all island approach here to a national synod and this synod is inspired by pope france's inviting frank honest prophetic conversations of how we engage not just now but particularly to building a more hope filled church for the future and finally it's it it saddens me uh that there are young people who feel that they would not be welcome you know if if if they're gay for example or that there are couples sitting at mass and the conflict in that you know they want to be there they want to practice their faith but their faith doesn't really see them as as they are it's sad that we have a situation that people are made to feel like that i share that sadness and i share that sense of almost it's not authentic and i think that you know i think we have to make our own other there's always been two churches by the way greg in my experience of ministry of over 20 years there's one on the ground and then there's this officialdom in a far away place but it's on the ground where we live and it's in the bits and pieces of the gray zone where our god lives one thing is for sure and holy week i am passionately and convicted that if the lord was walking the pathways of 2022 he would have kelly and her spouse at his table and very very finally i'm sure those people have reached out to you thanking you for speaking on their behalf from within as well presumed you know absolutely i think so and of course you'll always have that uh divide so to speak in churches in any institution between who crave for a more sort of galvanizing of the smaller more certain minority but i think the vast majority of people error on the side of love because love is love thank you very much for in what is a busy week of course thank you very much for talking to us and good morning to all your listeners great and you okay that's father paddy burn there is a parish priest of abby leaks we'll take a break and we're going to play a piece of 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Okay do you remember last week there was someone living they were from down the country living in a bedroom in letter kenny and they were wondering they wanted to be included on the census form but the landlady or landlord did not want to include them because revenue didn't know that they were right in the room but that's not the story here the story was the person said i'm not going to be included in the census and how many others will be in the same post the same boat well this caller says to the person renting a room and excluded from the sentence request an individual form slim blue collared form from your local emulator they will enclose your completed form in the census booklet form associated with your rental aircode you can request a large brown free post envelope if you prefer to mail your form directly to this year so everyone counts in a census okay thank you for that hi Greg if i lodge money into my account you know how long it takes to be in the account thank you that's the bank of Ireland i'm not sure of the answer to that question any bank of our customers there if you lodge cash how quickly does it go on to your account Greg i shop local and prefer to shop in a local shop as opposed to a shop owned by a multinational but i have to say i really am thinking of changing every time i'm fighting my way through a load of boxes all over the front door surely deliveries should be tied it away much quicker than they are it's an accident waiting to happen i we are creatures of habit and you know if you talk to someone in a in a in a butchers or in a shop they know when we go in and what times you know we think we're all individual and i just wonder if you happen to go in for that 15 minutes where they're unloading stuff in that shop because you probably go to the shop every single day and that order probably comes at the same time every single day and they want to serve you before they start on the the shelf stacking maybe that's just a suggestion right Greg this morning our ESP is 160 euro the last one was 90 euro as two pensioners living on the state pension there is no way we can afford this we are already living on the bread line the fear of being unable to pay our way is very real i can imagine i really can understand by the way i want to say i can imagine up in there i know what the story is i know what it's like when you can't pay those bills in the not too distant past either refishing who sold out on irish fishing rights it's about time we fought back that's going back a while isn't it that was in the 70s right in relation to a four-year-old car failing the nct reason given number plates were are were not of the required standard they were the original number plates fitted by the garage when the car was brand new the owner had to travel from bomb bag test center done low but new plates uh get new plates at a cost of 35 euro i have a three-year-old car with the same type of number plates i cannot i can forward pics if you wish to see them thanks coming in for more in our people fading their nct because certain plates were put on by a garage unbelievable stuff right uh minister for agriculture food and the marine minister charlie mccunlough thanks for joining us this morning charlie as you said you would on friday appreciate it good morning greg how you doing i'm doing fine right okay um there's a crisis in kealy bags at the moment what are you doing or what can you do to resolve the situation there's no marine minister wants to see boatloads of fish leaving a fishing harbour especially in his own county yeah no certainly not and um listen it's a challenging situation and i know it's something that was an issue covered um a lot last week as well and i'd listen back actually to the the three interviews i know you had spoken to the i wish fish from producers and exporters organization and an interview as well with official alliance and you'd interview i think on friday or thursday or friday with jimmy bairty of care as well and um a really good engineering company there in kealy bag so but listen just first of all greg just on a point that you made um during that interview that you put it to him that if uh if somehow this issue was happening more northern or more eastern in the county that it might be getting more the country yeah that was the meat that was a towards the media by the way and pardon i was towards the media yes just in case you say that and that was in other words if this were in doblin and three or four hundred jobs were at risk or people were being sent home from it wasn't that wasn't that not directed at you charlotte i thought that was quite clear but anyway no no that was the point and i that's fair enough i take your point i take your clarification on that um so listen it's a really challenging situation greg um and this that's been a challenging situation in relation to the control plan we have in place um for the last um last year to know or last since since the start of last year in particular um we've had a situation whereby the european commission had launched an audit in 2018 into into weighing and landing in kelly bags uh following on from that they launched a administrative inquiry which is an unusual thing for the the european commission to do the european commission or the overall control authority for for fisheries across the EU um i think that was the third time that had been launched but as a result of that anyway um they then in April of last year revoked the control the national control plan that we had in place in the country um in terms of how fish fish is weighed in different parts of the country and as a result of that from April last year until December last year all fish had to be weighed at pier side um across the country whereas previously um up until when the control plan was in place fish could be transported from the pier side to factories or co-ops and weighed in the factory so the fact that we didn't have a control plan was a massive inconvenience and challenge for all fishermen right across the country um it was really important we got a new a control plan back in place um and uh the SFPA who were the sea fisheries protection authority who were basically the enforcement authority and oversight authority for uh and applying fisheries a law in the same way that the garradi are for civil and criminal law and also the way for example that the revenue commissioners are for applying a tax law the sea fisheries protection authority had that role um in relation to to fishery uh law so and has such because of that legally they are separate um from the minister for the marine in relation to how they carry out that so in the same way that you won't ever see the minister for justice on your show talking about a legal case specifically or in the same way you won't see the revenue commission on the minister for finance and talking about a tax issue it's also legally prohibited for the minister to be the minister for the marine to be in a way involved operation so you are so you are hamstrung and you can't say you can't say that the SFPA uh how they're uh operating is is not really in is not working out really well we need to look at how the SFF SFPA operates or how it's formed or what role it has you're saying that's outside of the scope of the government oh so so the minister has has responsibility for policy um and uh but not operational matters so in the same way that the minister for justice for example would have been involved in relation to overall policy around setting law um and and uh overall matters in terms from a policy point of view but not from the actual day-to-day operational aspect of how things are implemented that's that's that's not the role for the minister but so but just so to take it so that that said that said that the SFPA have the role for actually applying the the laws that are placed it's it's important to be aware of what those laws are so in relation to the control plan which is in place now um uh from the start of this year from the start of january and which is due to expire at the temporary one until the end of april um the european commission given the backdrop and given the the ministry of inquiry and the audit that they carried out um they put in a a specific requirement in that control plan that five percent of all pelagic landings landing into kili bags or any other part of the country um must be done on peer side um non-industry owned and non-industry operated weighing machine so that's a specific requirement that the european commission has put in as a control measure um that there's an obligation on ireland and on the SFPA as the as the competent authority in ireland for implementation of fishery law to actually implement so that's that's the challenge that's in place and obviously that's that is where the challenges come from in the last couple of weeks whereby that's five percent of all landings right across the country over the course of the year great there'll be about 600 pelagic landings into the country there'll be about 20 000 non-plagic which is whitefish landings but 600 pelagic landings all that five percent have to be um five percent have to be uh done by according to the control plan by non-industrial peer side weighing so that's about 30 out of the 600 are subject to that and why is it all happening at the moment then why uh why if it's a sample of a sample uh could the SFPA not pick and choose which it were maybe uh may maybe apply this to smaller loads or or or different type of fish or why then is there so much focus of this five percent on blue whiting at kili bags pardon my ignorance if that question's wrong no so i mean again it's a matter for the SFPA to apply it across and to to make that decision but do you think there's a disproportionate enforcement of this five percent recently in kili bags particularly as it relates to blue whiting well the the obligation through the control plan is on the SFPA to do that one and one and 20 um checks is their call then in relation to what votes that they would they would but i know i understand that you're a little bit hamstrung in what you can comment on but just as it relates to my question do you believe it's worth you making an inquiry to the SFPA i know you don't want to talk about how they operate but does that not as a someone from outside the industry there seems to be a particular focus in a particular area on a particular type of catch how long have they been applying this five percent and why is it all seemingly focused on kili bags and blue whiting well the the control plan is in place from january until the end of april put that five percent obligation well they must have been doing nothing between now and uh since january in april then that's that's that's the question that's for the that's a matter of the SFPA well if you're not going to ask it who asks that question then who are the accountable to because the guardie there's a guard at ombudsman uh people uh you know we can speak to members of the guard representative association we can speak to the guard sergeants and inspections inspectors like there is an accountability here if there are questions to be asked of the SFPA and you're not going to ask them are they are they unaccountable who who are the accountable to they're accountable to the eruptus through the eruptus committee on agriculture put in the marine um well do you believe they should come before that committee and explain their actions i know they've done that regularly and that's something that is open to the eruptus committee to to have further engagements with the SFPA on at any time um and they are accountable to them to to the eruptus through that rather than to the minister they're accountable to the eruptus so so listen looking at it from an overall overall point of view greg obviously um killy bags is massively important our fisheries industry is massively important um we have a tremendous you know we have a tremendous fishing tradition in this country one we want to maximize the potential of for the concrete we also have a tremendous industry in killy bags in terms of the engineering industry it's been built up that's why we're having this conversation we're trying to keep that minister we're trying to keep it and and that is and that is in terms of everything that i do my small objective here as well great all right let me ask you a question have you got full confidence in the SFPA i do i believe they have a really important job to play but what we do need to do greg is we need to build up further the relationship between the SFPA and the fishing industry are we sure there's no SFPA sour grapes here i think listen i mean i think they have what they have been doing in relation to the they have an obligation on themselves to apply the control control plan but they have to do it correctly and they have to do it fairly and they have to do it over the span of the five months you're satisfied they're doing that they that that is that is what that is what they are doing and that is the obligation that's on them so and it is important that we it is important that we have and work to build the relationship that's there between industry and the SFPA there's a consultative forum in place in relation to how that and in relation to how the how they engage also as you know at the end of the meeting in kitty begs on on on saturday night and obviously there's the big concern expressed among the wider community in relation to the challenges there again i think it's important that they would have an engagement with the SFPA to express those concerns and so there can be a discussion in relation to it feels a little bit like though at least in this conversation or other conversations that it's really you're the minister for the marine right but it's really europe who's setting the rules and and and working with the SFPA the SFPA sorry in terms of enforcing them i mean like have you gone back to europe for example and say guys i know what you're meant to do here but they're bolting these fish to dairy and then they're driving these lorries down to kitty begs to be processed this is in my constituency give us a derogation or saw something out here because it clearly it's not very green to start off with and it's it's we are sidestepping this very very easily so clearly their regulations aren't making any sense can you not go to europe and do that and make that argument as the marine minister and if so why aren't you and when are you going to do it so listen i've been engaged with europe over the last year very intensively on this matter because of course we have had the our control plan revoked last april which is the first time ever the european commission have revoked a control plan for a member state and they revoked that in the back of the audit and the administrative inquiry that they had carried out in 2018 and 2019 now the SFPA then had been engaged were engaged with the commission in relation to getting a new control plan in place i then impressed upon the commissioner in the run up to christmas just past of the absolute importance of ensuring that a control plan would be in place and that the commission would engage with the SFPA to ensure that the control plan would be in place as a result of that engagement the commission with the agreed with the SFPA a control plan which is temporarily in place now from forced of january on to the end of april and which runs out at the end of this april now the SFPA are again engaged with the commission in relation to seeking to put a permanent control plan in place which will be able to which would ensure that we can have a control plan which allows weighing in factories and allows weighing in and you can't even make representations the SFPA can you i mean no no no the operation they're completely allure into themselves none of the operational side of it is the SFPA engages with the commission but it's really really important to get a control plan in place and obviously i have emphasized the importance of that to the commission and to the commissioner but but this is a very urgent but just let me to finish this point yeah the situation we are in with regard to the commission obviously is that the backdrop to this is the fact that they carried out administrative inquiry and an audit which they are still pursuing and and and it's still in train and which potentially coming out of that there there is the potential for a fine in ireland in terms of in terms of overfishing so that's okay well if the SFPA if the SFPA listen let me to let me let me briefly please yeah in relation so moving on from that then there is now a temporary plan in place but it's part of that it requires one and twenty or five percent of landings to actually be be weighed in on the industry owned machinery at the peer side as opposed to in the factory yeah but i was presuming if the SFPA are on site okay and they have the trust of the commission right can the SFPA then not work with the industry here and and weigh these fish in the water sign off it and say look you can be assured there's nothing there's no there's no mismanagement to this landing or anything we are satisfied that the amount of fish landed is the amount of fish that we are declaring can the SFPA not work with the industry to do that rather than following the exact letter of instruction with the committee from the commission yeah and i i think and i mean but the SFPA aren't doing that that's why i asked you the question is there some sour grapes going on here well no there needs to be engagement between the SFPA and the industry in relation to the SFPA the SFPA have there's an obligation on them obviously to do it on non-industrial weighing machines at the peer side that that's not something that they have discretion over for the one and twenty the one and twenty that is the audit landings the SFPA have engaged with the industry around potential solutions as to how we how they can ensure the water five percent that's not on blue white and for example the the SFPA have been engaging with the industry relations trying to identify solutions then in relation to how you can ensure the fish is weighed in water and that the quality of it isn't damaged so for example the proposal that one of the options that is there and i think which needs further explanation between the industry and the SFPA which have no doubt that there will be is the industry as the industry have a weighing and separation machine on the on the peer side which can separate water and can separate fish from water and can put the water into into the into the tanks or into the lorries before the fish goes in there and then the fish gets weighed the lorry or the tank gets weighed with the water in it and then subsequently then the fish is put in and the two are deducted off they had to presume in that process there's going to be damage to these fish though no well that would be that would be no that would be something from from what i can from what i can observe that the potentially could be a solution and there needs to be further engagement between the the industry i just i just i'll i'll say it like you are the the minister for the marine this is your your county as well as mine and everyone else is listening this is as you know when you heard at the weekend this is not just uh processing plants this is people's jobs this is the local shops uh the local other businesses this is the you know the people that supply equipment this is a devastating impact not only on killi begs but all around it and to be honest with you it sounds a little bit like to me minister that you're just gonna you can do nothing and you're just going to let this play out and that's no to be first of all Greg i mean my objective is to support the sector and the development of the sector in every way possible and that has been absolutely my core objective and everything that i've done in the sector has been to support it well this investment in piers are harbours there's coming forward with the various schemes now to invest in the processing sector uh to or to invest in new developments that's absolutely everything that i'm about but there is there is also alongside that uh as there is in every as there is in every member state across the the the EU uh because we have a quota system and my job is to fight to get to increase that quota every opportunity which i do but then in relation to the quota that that's the various that that we have there is a requirement on us to monitor that and manage that and that's that's overseeing through the control plans etc and then that that job and that role is carried out for the SFPA yeah um so listen it's important that that works well we i've outlined there the challenges that we've had over the last couple of years in relation to the audit we understand that you've mentioned that a couple of times yeah and the administrative enquiries that are in place but it's about the input it's about the implementation of its ways of there is a seems to me to be an implementation issue but i appreciate your how the control plan was revoked how a temporary one is now in place how it would be important to ensure that we get a permanent one come the end of April so that we don't have the situation that we had last year where every pier side right across the country uh from April when it was revoked last year onwards fish had to be weighed at pier side rather than co-ops and factories it's important we get that back in place okay um so and listen any any and every way i can to support the sector to bring it forward i will but in relation to the actual application of the control plan and the actual implementation of that that's legally the role of the SFPA and it is important that there continues to be engagement and a building up of trust and a relationship there between the sector and the and the SFPA okay well there's no point of going around in circles you've made that point clearly lastly before you get let you go your fellow minister Dara O'Brien thinks Mike is a laughing matter um did you see his tweet do you think it was appropriate i think no one sees this as a laughing matter greg and i i think this is something which is a source of unbelievable anxiety and stress for the many homeowners um the absolute focus of the government here and which we have been making good progress on slower than they know whatever you would like but we've made real real progress on and which we can make continue to make make progress on is actually getting the scheme in place and getting people's homes fixed and i think we all have to um uh be very much aware of the anxiety and pressure that everybody's under do you think you should delete that uh tweet he thought it was he thought it he thought it was funny enough to video the the comedian and then laughing faces i think we all have responsibility greg you and me and everyone else to actually keep focused on the job at hand here keep focused on the fact that we need to continue to make progress your people's homes fixed definitely not not in any way add to people's things i so should he should he apologize and delete the tweet do you think i think i think we should focus on the job greg and get on with the job i know minister minister o'Brien i know the t-shirt i know myself i know all homeowners only at one focus here which is actually to see the scheme progressed and that's going to keep the focus on and we need to be very aware and doing that all of us greg that we don't that we're not stirring up that anxiety in relation to our commentary on it well if that's directed at me hold on a second let me just make one thing clear minister if you think i'm stirring stuff up right i didn't maybe because of ego or something video dara o'Brien on the late late show making a joke about mica right which the joke in itself from a comedian that's fine i think uh i didn't video that i didn't post it on twitter tag in the comedian apologize to him and put into emoji laughy emojis i've no response but that's not i didn't do that your colleague the housing minister dara o'Brien did that and what i'm saying greg is that each and everyone is on each and every one of us have a responsibility to be very conscious of how anxious people are about this issue and how important this issue is to people being able to get on with their lives and be focused on the task at hand here which is actually getting the scheme up and running and that's what the government's focus has been that's why the t-shirt made visited and uh met with homeowner representatives and visited the home again last week that's why we're working to progress the scheme and that's what we need to keep our our foley and attention on minister for our marine and agriculture thank you have and food 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ports what's your comment leon good morning greg that was just the same uh what's going on your new eggs is ridiculous the whole thing's ridiculous what's going on like take your one thing to gerbin popbrunch and one thing the others will will emphasize uh we have vessels here ordinary vessels what i've been telling you before uh here basically a border here as a border it's been put up here through some one of our putt and i received it was putt of green castle uh due to the Brexit we have boats were allowed to fish had to get permission ordinary boats here to go to fish stables to go to fish their pots yesterday and they're sitting here today to two o'clock with pairs of a good aboard the boat they've no way of keeping the goods all of them they're not the same as the bigger boats with the water tanks down below they're waiting on the sfba to arrive leon what's the delay why would they at two o'clock uh greg uh the kentus charger my office ordered for half one to be on the pier for two o'clock to to discharge the the product out of the boat and a slight product it's the same as what's going on the killi begs with the blue whiten they're having a clue they're you know they're telling you black as white when the fishermen know better and try to get the product that product will have to lie to the evening it'll likely possibly be processed tomorrow and not alone that is the waters coming out of the out of the product would be woke the water would be coming out of the product so they lost witness and lost me the fact that it's ready to to go off you know to get it to the market to the factories and what would be the delay why does it why well there's designated times that fish can be right is that all if i go to killi begs now where i have to be forced away now and the vessel that i'm skippering to go to killi begs possibly two vessels love to go to kill it or go to kill to fish prawns we don't seem to have the same bother with the northern air and fisheries that we have here that the non swatters put on the fishermen here and the fishing community is here for to the uh a very strong embargo on fishermen it seems to be a tack on fishermen here and killi begs and on the workers the factories all that we don't have that for we're treated like human beings like fishermen in northern air and ports and all way to do is notify them we're coming sure but we don't have to stay on over the weekends we don't have to go and ask them but this is a new one now they have to get they have to get confirmation that they can go to fish and land and to back into the port one of the boats left here last week from green castle went to malinhead to do his bottom because due to the ferry back here in green castle that uh there was no room to slip the boat to do it here so the the growth of this time here in the bottom of the boat and check and announce he had to go to green castle he was told not to go and had to get permission to go to malinhead to slip his boat yeah it's tough way tough for us and the same people that'll come over here the day will check these northern irons nor the navies northern irish fishing boats will come in english registered chairs and check the northern iran registered boat a third country car which would have told you before with Charlie mcconnell come on after the the last day we had comments on this and they will get paid by that department for a non-european car so much per mile that's a joke as a hypocrisy from the highest degree Liam listen thanks for your time as always we've spoken a couple of times i do appreciate it Jared Kelly joins us too Jared we've very little time before news i don't know if you want to make your point quickly or come on after the news it's completely up to you but you were at the meeting on saturday uh what what's your takeaway from it uh i've prepared to come on right stay where you are then all right good man yeah because i don't want to rush it it's a very very important issue we'll be going to the news very very shortly indeed just a quick comment before we do actually you know what i don't want to mix up the comments i'll just read out the numbers for you 08 660 25 000 that's the whatsapp and text 08 660 25 000 or call 07 491 25 000 all right it is 11 o'clock it's time for a news update stay where you are it's it's going to be a busy and interesting last hour but for now it's good morning to Catherine Gaffney thanks Greg good morning the european at union is drafting proposals for a possible embargo on russian oil according to the foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney along with his Lithuanian and Dutch counterparts want to see the sale of oil to the block cut off as part of a fresh round of sanctions against Russia a survey has revealed that the fish weighing debacle in killie bags is adversely affecting the southwest donnie galle economy the figures compiled by the irish fish processors and exporters association shows that hundreds of homes and workers are being impacted by the ongoing issue a donnie galle mother has described the situation in letter kenny university hospital as unsustainable following a weekend visit to the facility Kathleen's daughter was instructed to attend the ed on friday night and after a number of hours there staff told her that it could be a further 14 hour wait because her health complaint wasn't classed as urgent questions are being asked over why a mica meeting wasn't facilitated between the pay shock and donnie galle candy council miha marten was in donnie galle last weekend and met with a number of affected homeowners and the mica action group serious concern has been raised over what's been described as a large clearance of trees at aards forest park the popular amenity near creaseless home to a vast number of mature trees and wildlife however it's understood that a substantial amount of trees have been taken away in recent weeks it's not yet known why such a significant felling has taken place but it's thought it could be a sustainable move and pay is one of the issues set to top the agenda at the association of gar the sergeants and inspectors annual conference which gets underway today the minister for justice helen mackinty is also expected to announce the body worn cameras for gar thee will be trialed with in the next year that's it for now we're back with more at 12 noon and you all come back okay we still have um jared kelly on with us jared thanks for holding there appreciate it okay greg no problem right go ahead yeah greg i traveled to kelly vegs from greencastle on saturday because i admire the people in kelly vegs been visiting them for 50 years i see how it is growing and the world-class people both fishermen and service understood that are there and i admire them to the highest point i'm also a fisherman myself i'm from the aquaculture sector and we could badly hit by the same department and the same minister um the minister talks a lot about a control plan and makes everybody confused all it simply is is weighing fish and the minister wants us to put to put the people that put their fish through a third country system when they have got first class system on their factories they've got cameras there that can be seen from the scf pe there's about 160 people working on the scf pe so i can't see why they can't go to the factories everywhere the fish has been weighed and they'll get them weighed to the nth degree but if they're directed by the commission to weigh five percent of landings at the pier there's no way around that is there there is actually a time that we decided to tell the european commission what we're going to do with our fish these are our fish as a matter of fact i'm one of the people who fought a spring court case to get the fish recognized in our waters as our natural resources these are our fish and we should uh if the minister keeps talking about uh adding value well we should add value rather than destroy value and the current system is destroying value destroying the product destroying the market and destroying factories and destroying jobs and the minister needs to start uh listening to the people and representing the people amongst uh the european union rather than representing the european communion communion amongst the people that's enough of this crap and it's gone on long enough and my sector has been devastated by it other sectors have been devastated by it and now the plagi sector and kelly riggs which is one of the world leading businesses in european fisheries production has been going to be devastated by it as well i mean at the end of the day to break it down into simple terms if i had a shop a favorite shop i went to and i went and i didn't know when it was open or if it was closed i'd go somewhere else that's what's going to happen isn't it in kitty bags it you know skippers aren't going i know there is a there's a bidding process and what have you but presumably that's all going to be factored in and and in the long run there's reputational reputational damage here this could have long lasting effects on on the viability of kitty bags yeah well if you buy an electronic platform part of your agreement that is you're going to take those fish and you're going to take them you're going to direct the boat which port you wanted and that's the condition to you buy the fish under what do you tell that guidance is you have to now leave this port sail for 12 or 14 hours go up the dairy and must couple of days fishing yourself and we then have to buy the fish at those same prices they agree but fish actually become nearly two days older the time we go to process this is crazy stuff this is totally unnecessary and like we are a small island out on the atlantic and and it's too bad that our minister can't step up to the mark now i asked for a vote of confidence see whether people in the meeting had had confidence and turning on low and they are resounding no okay now i i have to say i was cowardly and asking that question because i knew the answer before i asked it i understand that's all i have heard around the country for quite some time but i also asked about the people who are really running their fisheries and civil servants and most of them just feel that they are despised by the civil servants rather than respect it totally despised jared kelly thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it uh call mcburk is chair of the irish and seafood alliance he joins us now good morning to you uh call mc thanks for taking the call good morning great right okay um how do you think how do you think the meeting went i was i was pleased to hear the minister turned up i think it would have been easy not to to make an excuse not to uh but he did uh what was the mood of the meeting how do you think it went um well as i said at the meeting there was mixed feelings about the minister turning up um some would call it brave some would call it stupid but i felt that what he should have the responsible and respectful thing to do would be to come and sit and listen and at the end of the meeting just say okay i have heard your concerns and i will give it my consideration but the approach instead was to uh pretty much presumably give the same answers that we got on this program i'm not sure if you heard the interview to give the same answers we gave on he gave on this program to those from within the industry at that meeting is that is that how it turned out being um i openly said to him that i felt that's uh coming and using this up as an opportunity to to like a political rally to spous propaganda about what he has done and what he's doing and and you know just patronizing the people at this meeting i felt he disrespected the people of kitty begs and the people of the industry nationwide um they're trying to trying to blind these people with with uh facts and figures and EU regulations when these people know far far more about this topic than he does so instead of what you know ministers might stand up and stand salt shoulder to shoulder and say look i'm taking on board what you're saying something needs to be done i'm going to get in my car now monday morning i'm going to be on to the EU commission i'm going to make representations we can't be treated like this instead it felt like he was justifying the directives coming from the commission am i getting the the sense of it correctly there yes and i think uh he had a chance there to say you know as Jared Kelly just said there was a very clear vote of no confidence in the two senior civil servants in the department marine and in the minister himself he had a chance at that point to say okay well look it's clear we need some some dialogue between the department officials and the SFPA and the minister and instead he decided to take the option no i will 100 back these people we have to take a more favorable uh interpretation of these rules so no can we can that not be done not ask the SFPA put it like that in in in response to you firstly i'd say that in the last 25 years there's only one remaining constant involved in the fishing industry there's not one irish politician not one member of the EU commission not one fishing industry representative who are in place today that were there 25 years ago except for one constant aside from the fishermen themselves and that constant is the two senior people the two senior civil servants in the department marine and i as i openly said in the in my address at the meeting yesterday this this is the problem in our industry and this is where the t-shirt must be forced to investigate you know i mean we've seen ministers some good people call and go and it's quite clear their hands have been tied as soon as they were appointed this feels very much like the same old permanent government conversation that there are exactly the people truly in power are in those positions for for quite some time be it in housing fishing agriculture wherever it might be well look joy morn god rest him when i was a reporter for fishing news in the uk and many many years ago joy morn said to me that everyone's talking about the need for a level playing field in europe but he said first we must get a level playing field at home and at that time i didn't fully understand what he was referring to it but it's quite clear to everybody in this industry what's next comerc what is next here because i mean when i mean you've heard the minister you heard him on saturday you may have heard him on this program as well you see the approach he's coming from is going to continue to make representations