Yeah, when can we start playing Christmas songs? It's December, isn't it? It's 1st of December. Is it the 1st? It's Thursday, isn't it? Yeah. Are you playing the 1st one? I don't know. Could you play it on the 1st of December? That's... The finula was in here on Friday. I says when Christmas music starts. It says the 1st of December. Oh, that's right. There you go. I don't go over the top. Just play about 10. 5, 3, 2, 1, and I... Now, see, here's one for you. I'm sorry. You're going to do news now. What's my first Christmas song going to be, then? It depends if you want to be clever or you want to know what we all want to hear. No, but just give us a great cue. It's true. What's Mariah Carey, of course. Would that be the one? I think so. The first of many times you'll hear that one. I know. Good luck. It's only for Christmas songs, isn't there? Yeah. Really? Okay, Lee, thank you very much indeed. Two minutes past nine. It's a minute past nine. Let's get a news update to get things started this Monday morning and say good morning to Emma Ryan. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The chair of the Regional Health Forum West has raised concerns over a possible shortage of GPs in Donegal. A number of GPs in the county are set to retire in the coming years. This has led to questions being raised by Councillor Jerry McGonigal as to what steps are being taken to fill the vacancies and meet the growing patient capacity that is currently facing GPs. It's been confirmed that a GP training scheme is providing additional GP training places in the county. However, Councillor McGonigal says ensuring an adequate number of GPs, particularly in rural parts of the county, is vital. They're working with the Donegal GP training scheme. It's also providing additional GP training places in Donegal. And that the primary care units continue to support GP practices with succession planning, including advertising and recruiting GPs for the future. And that's very welcome. But unfortunately, we found with the problem in Duncan, Italy, is now we're having to go outside of the country to try and recruit international GPs to bring them in to the country such as the deficit in GPs. Micah campaigners are hosting a major demonstration outside the offices of Donegal County Council later this morning to demand action on the Micah crisis. The gathering comes as long waits and pauses on applications for grants have driven affected homeowners to the streets once again. The demonstration gets underway at 10am this morning outside the council offices in Lifford. Ahead of the rally chairperson of the Micah Action Group, Lisa Hohn says the continuous delays have left homeowners stressed and frustrated. To send a very strong and clear message to the Parazit B that the situation that homeowners find themselves in at the moment is totally and utterly unacceptable. The lack of response, the lack of action, the lack of planning and the continual delays have left those affected in a state of high stress and frustration. They describe it to me as feeling like they're just stuck in this long dark tunnel to which there is no end and no light and that is just so heart breaking and unacceptable. And finally, a significant capacity deficit at the hematology oncology day unit at Letter Kinney University Hospital has been acknowledged. The COO of the Seattle Hospital care group says capacity issues are as a result of COVID protocols and an increase in patients requiring IV chemotherapy on a day-case basis. It's been confirmed that work is ongoing to find a long-term solution as well as an interim basis. Councillor Albert Doherty, however, says much more needs to be done. This is a critical point for all of us in the north of the nation to what do we want? We want to see balanced regional development and a fair crack liquid and opportunities to have the optimum facilities in the northwest. And I am glad that we're starting from significant capacity deficit being acknowledged. Today's weather will become mainly sunny today as showers gradually become isolated. There will be largely dry conditions by evening, highest temperatures of 7 to 9 degrees. That's all for now. We'll have a news update again at 10 o'clock. But until then, good morning. I'm Dave. And I'm Steve. And we're the Happy Pair. Did you know if it says the Happy Pair in it, you can be sure it's healthy, plant-based, made using the best locally sourced ingredients and sustainable. And we are award-winning too, so you know it's worth it. You'll find us in your local centre and super value. The Happy Pair. Eat well, feel good, live better. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the Ninth and New Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And a very good morning to you. Six minutes past nine this Monday, the 28th of November. How are you keeping? I hope you had a pleasant weekend. And it's the start of another week of chilly one, isn't it? Out there today. And we've a busy show for you. We're going to be live from Lifford, of course. There's a major demonstration takes place there on behalf of defective concrete home owners. If you want to watch much of those proceedings as we interview the people in the rest of today's show, you can go on our YouTube channel, Highland Radio Ireland. Watch us there or across our Facebook pages or directly on our website. Click Watch Now on HighlandRadio.com. Right, let's see what's making the front of the newspapers today. The people of Donegal are being urged to stand in solidarity with Micah affected homeowners today and join a protest at council offices in Lifford. Lisa Hone, who we've just heard from, chair of the Micah Action Group said it is imperative to put pressure on the council to make sure affected homeowners' voices are heard. We're urging the council to fight for their constituents, she said. She urged everyone across Donegal to join them and stand in solidarity at the county house in Lifford today at 10 a.m. She said not to assume everyone else will do the job for you, indeed.  It's important they're well attended. And I'm not backing any particular protest as such here. But, you know, if they're not well turned out, if there's not a big turn out, well, then the powers that be, I think, all right, okay, well, there's a lot of noise about it, a lot of posts on social media. But in reality, it mustn't be that bad if not many people turned up. But of course, it's Monday morning and people have other things work and what have you. But they are expecting or lead up there. I would say a big turn out will be crossing over to Lifford in the first hour just to get a sense of what's going on there. And then, of course, we'll cross over in the second hour as well just to see how things are progressing. Right on to the dairy news. Ambitious plans by TransLink means dairy will have a zero emissions electric urban fleet in just under a year. The transport companies rolling out 30 million plus investment to completely replace the current foil metro diesel fleet by the end of summer 2023. TransLink described the move to electric vehicles as a major stepping stone in its plans to half emissions by 2030 and operate a hundred percent zero emissions boss and fleet across its entire network by 2040 with climate positive status following by 2050. All right, well done. On to the Irish independent this morning and T shock me home Martin has said he favors a universal levy to replace the TV license earlier this year the government rejected that rejected the future of media commission's proposals to replace the license fee with funding derived from general tax revenue in 2024. The UK taxpayer funded BBC is previously backed a new system of funding that would see all houses all households pay universal levy whether or not they watch live TV speaking in Paris, Mr Martin said a universally applied levy would ultimately be the more sustainable approach to resourcing media. RTE says it loses 65 million euro each year to non payment of the license fee and poor RTE I understand that but again this is a levy that for the most part bar a little bit of funding for documentaries and what have you all of your license fee money as I say bar a little goes to RTE five million in the whole every year but you know they need to trim the fat of it don't they they need to cut wages that's what any business might do look what Elon Musk is doing at Twitter you get you know you get the best value that you can from your workforce I'm not suggesting they sack half of them or more like he did but the media is much more than RTE of course broadcast media is us news talk virgin media other local radio stations and it is only RTE for your tax through your license fee that's funded so I think a fairer a fairer taxation model that helps all media would be much more useful I think onto the Irish Times now and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has rejected allegations that she used the Hutch family for money and votes claims that emerged in a high-profile gangland trial in Dublin former Sinn Féin counselor Jonathan Dowdall was secretly recorded making the claims and criticizing Mrs. McDonald for not attending the funeral of the brother of murder accused Jerry the monk hodge the claims emerged in the special criminal court where Hutch is on trial for the murder of David Byrne who was shot dead at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 Mrs. McDonald has rejected the allegations she told the BBC and I Sunday politics show that is absolutely not true let me further say that case is ongoing in Dublin this case is as a result of incredible sterling work by Guardian over many years and I'm certainly not going to say anything that would in any way jeopardize or undermine or influence the outcome of that important trial but she that went on to say but let me tell you and repeat again for the avoidance of any doubt that I have stood resolutely on the side of the community and against exactly the type of individuals who find themselves now in courts on these charges for my entire life on to the Irish Daily Mail now and the anti asylum seeker protests in Dublin's East Wall are due to restart at 5pm today with demonstrators vowing to bring the city to a standstill the East Wall protest group thanked the hundreds who showed up for a demonstration on Saturday and said they were about to escalate the campaign against the housing of male refugees in the old ECB buildings in the area in a Facebook post the group announced well done to everyone that showed up and fought for their community we will regroup Monday at 5pm and plans will be unveiled to bring this city to a standstill tell your mothers your fathers your brothers your sisters your grandmothers if you want this place shut down then be there on Monday evening if not then stay at home the whole country is watching let's show them what our people are made of they said the group has about 350 followers on Facebook and those types of protests are nothing new of course it's not that long ago in fact it's pretty much in 2018 about how many long about four years to the day since there was a controversy in Donagall with plans to house asylum seekers in a hotel and the hotel ended up a fire broke out of the hotel in the end but anyway as I say it's not something new but certainly East Wall is capturing the nation's attention it seems on to the sun and protesters in China demanding Z Jim Ping step down over the country's crippling COVID controls opposition to the strict lockdown measures have ramped up recently it's kind of complicated and we've seen it here to some extent but on a lesser scale China of course is imposing very strict lockdowns very very strict lockdowns and then all the Chinese people many of the Chinese people are watching the World Cup and cutting to the crowd and everyone's there cheering and clapping and some have commented that are we living on a different planet what's going on in China that's separate to the rest of the world so what Chinese TV are doing now which I think is really quite interesting is that when you're watching the World Cup and the camera pans to the crowd they have an alternative feed that maybe focuses on the managers or the subs bench or whatever it might be and in China that's what you see so they're actually avoiding as much as they can showing the crowd in its red masks and what have you that also added to that too there was quite a significant fire as well which was another trigger point and many young people are publicly venting their fury at the all powerful communist party leaders thousands took to the streets of Shanghai despite heavy handed action by police while students also demonstrated at universities in Beijing and Nanjing now public protests particularly the leaders in China are very much proud upon their social media and all is very strictly controlled so it's incredibly significant that such things are happening over there and the Chinese leadership then are blaming western powers for trying to disrupt the public mood but I don't know about that on to the Irish Daily Star now and a Garde organization last night restated its opposition to routinely arming members of the force but once more specialists gone officers Garde representative association president Brendan O'Connor was speaking after talking to the old Radkar said he'd support a request to arm rank and file Garde and I think Brendan is going to join us on the program shortly just to get his views out and fall Mr. Radkar who becomes T-shock for the second time next month said the issue is won for Garde commissioner Drew Harris but he would support him if he asked for it now I think Fina fallen the old Radkar's government partners have come out against it but what do you think do you think there should be more armed Garde I think we can all agree can't we that there should be at least one if there's not already I don't believe there is I think it's in the south of the county there should be one armed response unit based in the central part of Donegal to respond when needed whether all Garde should carry guns what do you think 08 660 25,000 and finally in the Irish Daily Mirror Environment Minister Aiman Ryan has said the government is on track to reach the target of having 950,000 electric vehicles by the end of the decade Mr. Ryan said the government will launch a new 100 million euro strategy next month that will see more charging stations installed around the country I am sure that I have reported on or read of at least four or five strategies to provide more electric charge points publicly and still there doesn't seem to be anymore can they keep announcing it over and over again but yet none appear and those that are there often broke you will hear some report it's interesting that he's back talking about 950,000 electric vehicles presumably they can include hybrids in there because there's no chance of reaching it otherwise but he backtracked on that in an interview I heard last month where he sort of said that you know it's not really about replacing one car with another car what we need to do is to get public transport and other modes of transport promoted and in place but now he's back talking unless this reporter hadn't heard that previous interview he's back talking about getting to 950,000 vehicles well the government's expected to publish its revised climate action plan which will set out the road map on how it will cut emissions by 50% by the end of the decade wait till you see that new road map will soften on that 950,000 firstly they can't reach it and secondly there is if it's an energy crisis of course and we still make energy the dirty way I can see the Green Party adjusting their position as it relates to the amount of green cars electric cars to be on the road by 2030 but we shall see I'll try and remember I said that and then we'll look at that revised report when it's published 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Vincent de Paul annual appeal donate locally or at svp.ie thank you is your car or van winter ready get your free winter check now at Hagerty's Ford in letter candy it includes checking your light swipers and coolant also the most common cause of winter breakdowns your battery and what you depend on most to keep you safe on the road your tires where the thread depth should be at least 1.6 millimeters Hagerty's will check all these and more to keep you motoring safely through the winter and beyond get winter ready by contacting Hagerty's Ford in letter candy today alright so Leo Faradkar was asked would he support rank and fall guardie being armed with guns he said he wouldn't block any requests so effectively what the T-shock the soon to be T-shock is saying I would imagine is that if Drew Harris came to him and said look at the situation with policing in this country at this time is that we believe guardie should be armed then he would say yes the greens and fina fall seem to be indicating today that they would say no but what do the people really that matter I think the guardie themselves Brendan O'Connor is president of the guard representative board good morning to you thank you for joining us Brendan oh sorry Brendan isn't there at all Brendan's joining us on zoom my apologies he's not there right okay so we'll come back to that right okay I wanted to carry on some comments from last Friday and the readers follows Greg's parents Greg parents don't realize the damage they're doing to their children the radiation from their phone as a child sits most of the gazing into the phone parents need to take responsibility for actions now I'm not sure what science you're basing the phone emitting radiation from I think it's generally accepted it's a very small amount isn't it but anyway you probably right you could be right sorry I don't know if you're right good morning Greg what happens with children with phones his parents put in their children's age over 18 yendi this is off the back of a conversation we had on Friday another quarter says every day we hear about hospitals and the way they're run gynecology scandal bed shortness clinics backlog services being pulled doctors going can't handle the workload it does seem like a tsunami of bad news but that's being said and again just want to reiterate that you know a lot of good goes on as well and the staff do work very hard for the most part but I understand your comments as well of course says I'm a carer myself and 30 or 40 others have no hours because we're being told there are no clients for us to work with we went from a 12 hour day to a five hour day we will still get paid our contracted time anyways but it makes no sense we want to work and there are people who need care for me this has been ongoing since July so I have a carer there who isn't caring because they're being told there is no clients what's going on there we need to find out more right let's see now if we can say good morning to Brendan O'Connor president of the representative association Brendan good morning to you good morning Greg good to have you with us okay so just before I was introducing you I was suggesting that Leo for Adcar he's pretty much saying I think that if the guard he think they need guns he wouldn't block it Fina fall in the greens not so much but I want to know what guard he think would the guard of force if you polled them be in favor or against them being routinely armed I wonder well Greg the most recent research that we did in association I think it's come back about a decade or so indicated our members were not in favor of being routinely armed and I think that would be still the case just speaking to members and speaking from my own experience on the front line I think that most members we do acknowledge that there is a lack of capacity to respond to our message and we think it should be more than this it's a minute but certainly I don't believe there's an appetite out there amongst our members to move towards the fully armed police service that's something that that would be a massive step and I think it's something that our members would have had and there's also some issues around it in relation to just have an impact on our approachability and interact with the public and also just in relation to member safety a lot of the routine stuff that we do on a daily basis in fact it's a nice life change but a fire hour would only complicate the situation and wouldn't complement it of course in critical incidents so maybe there may be some sort of where you would be better off in a firearm between them we're not certainly not believe that we're not really at that stage just yet and do you think the public would be less likely to approach Gardy if they were carrying a sidearm I mean a lot of people listening to this show are looking off maybe to travel they might go to Portugal they'll routinely see police walking up and down the streets with a sidearm but would the public be intimidated by that here? Well I think there's a possibility and I think we've a tradition of even our battens are concealed and always have been and we Gardy never we actually adopted as we tackle battens they actually specially ordered a cover so that they're not even visible what they are when people carry them on their backs but part of what eats us and our culture is to be approachable and to not be an aggressive oppressive presence and it's the 100th anniversary of the Gardy and of course the commissioner said we would prevail with the support of the people not through force of arms or anything it's very it's very big decision but I'm not saying for one second we don't acknowledge that our members do need better arms to better access to firearms and they need to be scrambled locally when available but what we would see maybe as a post-itional New Zealand model where you have an unarmed police service out there on patrol to interact with communities but they have firearms locked in cabinets in their vehicles whenever a situation arises they can then be authorized and moved from one to the other so if it got to the stage where that was required that's what we would look at but to move unilaterally to a route in the armed service I don't think that's what our members want and I don't think that's possible the public would like to see and you know that the problem is isn't it's a little bit embarrassing to phrase it like this but would we be capable of actually training everyone because we currently can't train Gardy or we're not training Gardy quick enough as you pointed out in our last conversation to be able to chase a car that goes past them do you know what I mean to be able to drive their vehicle under the lights and with the sirens going so I mean if we can't get a fundamental like that right can we really logistically train and equip an entire force it seems beyond the force at present as I say considering we can't even get people able to drive their cars like they probably need to yes well as you said there'd be a huge logistical issue there in relation to and resource issues because the cost of fishing firearms I mean there's nothing there's no skills more important to be up because you say logistical and resource issue and access to firearm ranges are quite limited and we have a certain number of firearms card holders which is people who are authorized to carry a firearm and keeping them trained and upskilled is actually quite a logistical brace and I remember often have difficulty accessing they call it the day on the range so even that's how we're reliant on that so just another headache another problem as you say we can't we can't even get training in basic legislation or our own handcuffs and pepper spray that we're using and a lot of us write a certification for that we don't ever set up the date for state training so I mean to move towards firearms I don't think it's just very ambitious But Brandon your guard of representative members are pretty consistent in their views as you say I told them you know what they think politicians will react to it but I don't think anyone's actually calling for Garda to be armed so why does this conversation keep coming to the fore do you think and we appreciate you accepting our invite to speak about this but who is pushing do you think for Garda to be armed that this keeps being brought back to the fore I wonder because the public aren't demanding it either I'm not sure where this particular conversation came in I suppose it may come off the focus of the writing number of assaults on Garda and the conversation in recent weeks was that Garda need to be able to defend themselves better and better equipment so unless it is imminent or not and those those people said maybe that's where it came from but certainly I mean in such situations we would be a firearm as a liability because we need to move somewhere between let's say being able to use maybe a little more force than we have at the minute going from a button to lethal force I mean there is most police forces have great availability to tasers and that's the thing we're talking about maybe better options for non-lead to force and maybe encouraging Garda and making feel Garda more confident they have like buttons and pepper spray and not be in fear of oversight and fear of prosecution and being suspended because they have to justify everything that's right and that's an onerous responsibility on members so if you see that situation where we all saw regards on the pressure being beaten and then you have to have the presence of mind and the decision making to defend not using your button but just every single strike is going to be scrutinized and justified and that's something that needs to be done because maybe the current procedures in what we do have maybe a little bit better equipment with regard to tasers that's the sort of thing where really the conversation is in Garda stations and in Cantillo and the country. Yeah but just an opportunity maybe to get an update from you as it relates to the armed response unit in Donegal where are we at because you know I know listeners will know that there are times where that needs to be called upon thankfully not too often but and sometimes it's not terribly serious sometimes it is incredibly serious and time is very much of the essence so has any progress been made in reaction times right across the county as it relates to an arms response unit are they still traveling at a Balai Shannon or what's the story? They're still based in Balai Shannon there was a competition there in the last couple years so the numbers have increased so we have more units available and more units covering but they're still covering that massive distance from South Station to North Donegal so it's a bit of a lottery sometimes as to where they're going to be but I haven't heard too many the long delays of three and four hours that we were talking about in the past when we were relying on Mayo to cover when there was none in Donegal so again look you'll always want more it's like any emergency service you can never have enough I think the problem isn't as acute as it was but certainly it's still an issue and when we saw what happened in Surban and in Derry last week it just shows how you know maybe closer to the north than it's shown and to the border it's very considerate but that's what's the situation as it relates to bodycams because maybe they might help Guardi in deescalating instances or may deter people from assaulting Guardi is that what is the situation there has been some conversation about that as well of course they were told they're on the way the government are passing legislation and their own organisation and Guardi's honour are looking I think at the equipment that's available but we're told that it's not going to be possible of every Guardi she's with the camera before again in 2023 so again our members we're unfortunately we're a little bit cynical we're just going to have to hold our breath and wait and see but we won't be I'd say we won't be comfortable getting them and just finally just to back up onto your comment as it relates to the Guardi use of force and when that decision is made i.e. drawing batons or if tasers would have been made available using those do you could we find ourselves in a situation that Guardi who are in a certain situation whereby they would need to draw their baton might find themselves not doing so because for fear that that could be a worse handling having to justify their actions and so on and so forth I mean is that where we're at? Absolutely that's where we're at, we had a case here and done it all a couple of years ago where a guard went to a disturbance in a licensed premise he took out his baton he used it in the court with his train and the court would use the force guidelines yet he was investigated by GSOC recommended for prostitution, dragged through the courts ultimately he was vindicated in the courts but that was members put through hell for a number of years not knowing what was going to happen and in the current environment now where we have a very very strange and deported system members are finding themselves disciplined a lot of guards are saying you know what it's not worth it to give you this piece of equipment but if you use it you're going to be a thermal or not worth it so that's what the problem is in relation to balance All right listen thanks for your time Brendan I really appreciate it okay that's Brendan O'Connor their president of the Guard of Representative Association you're making your views known so far the majority of you seem to be opposed to the arming of the Guardie, no arming our Guard of Pleas, guns are used as a weapon of violence and violence only breeds more violence that comes in from Mary and just to reiterate the rank and file members of the Guards don't seem to be in favour of carrying weapons, carrying guns armed Guardie in Ireland would be too dangerous what about just supporting Guardie by giving them decent vehicles and other would getting body cameras first not be more important the story about Guards being armed I don't know if it's media driven I don't know if some journalist says look what happened to those Guards in Dublin let's get this conversation going again as I say the story comes up but I'm not really sure who's making the call more Guardie you needed says this caller firstly and definitely cars would it not be more beneficial to rebrand the drug squad in Milford we were speaking to Brendan last week by the way about the loss of personnel from the drugs unit I didn't want to go back over that again he pointed out to us 21 members of the Guard of Drug Unit in Donegal last year five this year some of that stand to a special operation in Lattercany where people were moved into the drug squad but as you can see obviously much less than what's needed the problems are getting worse the amount of Guardie focused on drugs is getting fewer all Guardie are but specifically you understand what I'm saying another have we not learned from America it's too much power for some people I understand where you're coming from all right let's take a quick break then our next guest joins us the Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Lattercany Credit Union Seasonal Loans now available for Christmas apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account if you're a business owner wondering what to get your staff Christmas Kelly Centre in Lattercany have great hampers to suit all budgets 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this needs to be talked about in case people don't know that's public chargers um the majority of charging I believe is uh done at home um so maybe it might be something that discourages people maybe uh not you know sometimes you you know what's going on but you don't actually really think about what's going on um we have a huge resource uh off the Donegal coast of course off the west coast of Ireland not just Donegal uh and that is um amazing fish stocks amazing amounts of fish or an amount of fish I don't know how big the stocks are at the moment but we can't really fish them even though they're in Irish waters and people are scooping them up and uh people are scooping them up and um making a fortune out of it and we have our fishermen being paid sometimes just to simply uh tie the boats out uh tie the boats up and many are leaving um the industry all together John Shine form a fisherman who runs Shine Seafood and Cubes joins us now John thanks for chatting I appreciate it thanks for the call Greg and um I was happy to give you a do you want it yeah thanks John when you take a step back I mean obviously those in the industry are acutely aware of this you live it every day but also it's the general population if you know what I mean when you take a step back and you look at what's going on you look at marine traffic and you see the amount of massive uh vessels off our coast many of them are floating factories so you know we don't even get the processing end of the deal uh it's remarkable really what's going on isn't it yeah well you see the problem Greg is a lot of people in Ireland are very unaware of what's off the west coast of Ireland in terms of our fishing resources I mean we sell Irish albacore tuna in about 900 stores in Ireland but people will stand in frontier and tell you Irish fishermen don't catch tuna Irish fishermen catch two types of tuna one is called albacore and the other one is called bluefin now bluefin we don't have a quota for that fish and this is the product this is the fish in particular that's causing big concern on the west coast of Ireland the European Union as a bloc including Ireland has a quota of 21,000 ton of bluefin tuna now these fish spend probably four months of their year in Irish waters they're in every bay they're actually that plenty fill in some parts of Donegal they'll have to call them like they would have to call the sheep in the Phoenix park because the impact they're having on inshore fish would be devastating for some stocks they're just, they're running wild but Ireland has never got a quota to fish these fish so if we catch one by accident we actually have to dump it at sea it's an offence to bring it ashore so that's the problem we have here and this resource could be worked millions to all the coastal communities on the west coast one of the arguments that's made one of the arguments that's made and it seems a little bit ridiculous to me is that we didn't traditionally catch these fish so why should we get a share of the quota but we traditionally were able to catch more fish and that was taken from us so it's a bit of cherry picking of history in terms of what we can and can't catch there we were catching these 40 years ago we did have a fishery these but we didn't record it because it wasn't necessary to record them so it didn't basically show up but there is a track record within the department of Irish fishing boats fishing these fish because the department had to issue certificates to export them because these fish have been exported from Ireland back in the 80s and 90s and maybe as far as the early 2000 so there is a track record so it's not particularly accurate to say we don't have a track record and fishing it it's going back a bit though John was the point how many fishing deals have been negotiated between now and 40 years ago but you're the expert so I take your point but that's the kind of the broader point I was trying to make Norway never had a quota until 3 years ago or 4 years ago now they've got 500 tonnes this is a resource of our nation they're in our waters and we own them while they're in there and you know like with the waters getting warmer we now have anchovies being caught in Dingle Bay I mean these weren't here 30 or 40 years ago so you do have fluctuations in types of fish that you have in your water 30 years ago Donegal Bay would have been full of macro this time of year now they're further north you know things are changing all the time and we need to change with the times so we're focusing on the bluefin tuna here at the moment like it's not the golden goose really is it in terms of saving the entire fishing industry but it could be a very useful fishery if we got a quota for Donegal fishermen particularly small fishermen is that fair enough assessment that's a fair point that's a fair point now if this was we call it an artisan fishery and I'm talking about guys going out maybe mixing it like a hybrid version going out doing a bit of anglin which they do in killi bags they do a catch and release and they do that in some parts of the country they catch and release bluefin tuna and they tag them and they do that sort of work which monitors the stock but if you could bring that to another level do the catch and release on a managed basis but allow the boats to bring in one fish per week and I would mean a fish that would be ordered that if a Tokyo hotel or a market somewhere wants one 500 pound fish that the boat some of these boats in killi bags can catch up to 40 fish a week for angling at the moment and release them again so there's loads of them but if they were told this week we want you to bring in 100 pound fish or 400 pound fish or whatever it is and bring that into the market and sell it as what it should be a gourmet product you know you're talking about maybe 5000 euro for a decent size fish that has an astronomical knock on effect in terms of our tourism it becomes it makes it a viable fishery for small inch or boats but why so small why pitch it so small then John why not look for even a bigger share of those quotas because the conversation is happening now the meetings are happening now Charlie McConaughey is sitting down with his European partners trying to see what he can eke out for Irish fishermen so why think so small why not think bigger why shouldn't we get a much greater percentage of these stocks we get 8% of the Albuquer tuna quota which is 3000 tonne so we got 8% of the bluefin tuna you know that's 2100 tonne and an average 20 euro a kilo that's 31 million euro you know that's a significant amount of money for your small inch or fleet and this isn't what I'd call industrial fishing this isn't large scale like what those Japanese are at up there good luck to them they are fishing this on an industrial scale and it kind of makes a bit of a joke of us because these fish are feeding in our waters all summer and we're just looking at them actually we're criminalised if we catch them it's worse than that so we need a level playing field here and it's about time that our representatives when they go to Brussels that they hit the table and say come on now guys we want to share a pair of the pie this is ours as much as there is anybody else's and that's the point I would be making and we'll see what's with interest and I think because of the cleanliness of our waters these fish are even more valuable to the Japanese market aren't they there's been a bit of controversy about mercury levels in fish of Japanese waters in recent years but tuna caught here the cream of the crop will caught after they leave a far superior product even with issues like Fukushima levels of radiation in the North Pacific will be considerably higher levels of mercury would be considerably higher so you're talking about a total different product here and when they sell it in the Japanese market they brand it as North Atlantic and sometimes they would imply that it's cut off the coast of Ireland now it is cut on the 200 mile line actually in international waters so they're not actually doing anything wrong and that's been implied by some people what they're doing they're perfectly entitled to do it when you consider the motivation to travel nearly 8 weeks by sea to pick up something that we could fish from the shore in some parts of Donegal it really makes you think are we being made fools of here completely the biggest problem is the people that are doing the negotiations are not stakeholders and by that I mean I would define a stakeholder that somebody either has their livelihood on underline their property or their business they're invested in it we do have high rank in civil servants they're going away to negotiate and the outcome has no impact on them or the community what so ever it's a pre-decision that's made almost both on land and on the sea but is that not what the likes of the Killebecks Fishermen's organization and others are about they feed into those that are they feed into those that are involved in these negotiations is that not just how the system works well it's not working that is the problem like it's not working I mean we have Europe now since England left we have the most waters in the European Union and yet I would say the deficient industry is a liability to the taxpayer by the time we pay for the department, BIM the marine institute managing the harbors how could we have the greatest resource in Europe and it ends up being a liability to the taxpayer you know it's insane what it generates compared to other countries I'll give you an example the coastline of Belgium is 67 kilometers long the coastline of Laude is 100 Laude is our smallest county but yet Belgium has 20 times more black soul in the Irish sea than Irish Fishermen we've got such a bad deal and it continues to get worse and worse every other fleet in Europe are buying new boats, expanding we're losing one third of our white fish boats 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On the show this week we welcome Mallon Hebb, singer-songwriter Sean Mehan and we also say hello and welcome to the big electric Kiely Band from Donegal and Derry we'll also be playing a few new Christmas releases from around the Northwest and as well as that we'll also be telling you all about our live Christmas show on the 19th of December and Blake's Bar as well so that's the Monday Night Sessions this Monday night between 8pm and 10pm right here on Highland Radio Franky's a former fisherman, he joins us now Franky, good morning to you Morning Right, you said that you were in contact with the Department of the Marine looking for Delegation from Delegation went up from the northern region of the fishery board from the Charter Skippers of Kilivegs mainly looking for one ton of quota for these fish that we talk of Charter Skippers Yes When was that, Franky? That was about 20 years ago and it fell on deaf ears that those calls I take it? We were promised everything but we met the senior officials there and after about four hours the left was waiting downstairs they probably thought we would get fed up and go home but we didn't and as I said by the northern fishery board and it fell on deaf ears that I've even bought it and there was a big quota in Europe that didn't even been taken up No And what difference would that quota have made to the industry of Kilivegs at that time? Of course it made the same thing that John had talked earlier about there's big money to be made in and the side effects from it as well it worked and at that time Tuner was worth a lot of money they were being sent directly to Japan but there is a big opening there we're not allowed to exploit it same as the rest of the fish round we're not allowed to exploit them either How does that feel as someone from within the industry when you as I said earlier on you open up the app but you probably don't have to you know they're out there anyway but you see the boats tied up people out of the industry people that had to pack it in a generation not fishing any longer which means perhaps the next generation won't either There were up to 60 boats in Kilivegs when I started and there were 18 to 20 boats there were 14 or 15 in Bunbag there were 12, 14 in Kilala Where are they now? They're not there Yeah indeed Alright Frank it's a shame it really is thank you very much for that 20 years ago 20 years ago and that delegation met with the department of the marine looking for some of that quota when it wasn't even elevated Right let me see Donald Kavanaugh with us Donald are you there? Yes indeed Greg good morning Good morning to you Right now Micah campaigners it's effective concrete campaigners are hosting a major demonstration outside the offices of Donegal County Council this morning they're demanding action on this this issue Donald obviously we're six or seven minutes away from when people were called to meet at Lyford how many people are turning up? There's a small crowd out there Greg I'd say at the moment there's a hundred or just over a hundred but obviously there's quite a big there are a lot more to come yet I think the vans are outside the signs are being distributed there is going to be a protest now we do understand that Liam Ward director of services here at County House in Lyford he's invited some of the senior people from the Micah Action Group and the defective block campaigners to come in to meet with officials they're discussing with members as well members on the way into the meeting are stopping and having discussions with people outside as well and it's quite clear that what the group outside have to say is being listened to and officials and members are both saying that they are anxious to take on board what's being said but members are also pointing out that look at the budget meeting last week for instance we passed an emergency motion at that budget meeting seeking an urgent meeting with Minister Darrow Bryan to get action on the issue of modular homes and the provision of accommodation for people whose homes are falling apart because of defective blocks and are unsafe to live in so the members are saying look effectively we're doing what you want us to do we're putting pressure on government and we're as frustrated as you are yeah but they want access to well totally they want access to the council to find out what's going on open lines of communication for the council to say and tell people what they're doing how they're doing it and when they're going to do it unfortunately one of the problems is at this point in time all the council can say in many respects is we're waiting for the department just like you are and I think that's really the crux of the frustration here because effectively the council and members will say this the council is acting almost as an agency of the housing minister yeah but the council has a role Donald does it not or should have a role you know yourself as we all know that the many people that are in emergency situations that need emergency housing the council should have a role obviously the long term thing would be modular homing but in terms of finding an emergency accommodation for people right now surely the local authority has a role in that regard the council does have a role but what the council is saying is we can't do this do this without the funding from and without the input of the department of housing now what the council has been getting from the department of housing is we're getting it all together we're getting it together we're getting it together standby we're going to come back to you and there is frustration obviously as a result of that predominantly and most importantly and you know most seriously on the part of those who are in homes wondering what's going to happen then over the next couple of months I mean people are saying and they've said it to you on the show several times we cannot take another winter in our homes and we need action now they're going to the council and they're expressing their frustration in front of the council effectively what the council is saying to them is look we're waiting on the department of housing to come to us with the money to come to us with the structures to come to us with the actual protocols whereby we can start implementing these decisions what we have is lots of decisions lots of policy lots of pieces of paper but what we don't have at this point in time and what we need both the councillors and the protesters will agree on what we need now is to actually get those policies and get that transferred into action and into blocks and into movement whereby people can actually be made safe and their homes can be remediated or where necessary demolished and rebuilt alright so this protest starts at 10 and the meeting is the plenary council meeting how is that all going to work how's one going is the council meeting progressing as scheduled are councillors walking past these protesters to go in and conduct their council business as normal the meeting itself is due to start at 11 as I said any members a number of members are outside and in the building already and by and large the members have been stopping and speaking to protesters outside now I think in fairness it must be said at no point have any protesters attempted to prevent anyone from entering the building and I don't see any evidence that the protesters are going to seek to frustrate or to stop any business from taking place I'm not getting that impression at this point in time that may change but at the moment we're making no attempt to frustrate anyone from going about their business but certainly members are speaking to the protesters and members of the action group have been invited in for a meeting with officials and we understand that is taking place in the next while Alright Donal listen thank you very much for that Donal Kavana is going to be important of course from 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The DL debate with Sister Sarah's Laddercanny, serving food you'll love in Sarah's kitchen. OK, so victims of the defective concrete product scantler taking part currently in a demonstration outside the offices of Donegal County Council to demand action on this crisis. Paddy Diver is the first of a number of guests to join us. Paddy, can you hear me OK? Good morning to you. Right Paddy, I suppose firstly, why this meeting? Why now?  He's sitting with his hands, sitting on his hands, arms folded, waiting in things to be brought to the table from... And he's not going looking for it, he's not... They're under-represent us and we don't feel like they're doing enough. That's just the way I see it. So, go ahead Paddy, continue, go ahead. I think Paddy offers us schemas, I think he's got here. It's been got for the campaigners. We don't feel like it's been got from chief executives and the leaders of the Donegal County Council. We don't feel like they're shouting loud enough for us and even a lot of the councillors. Like, there's some of them, I don't need to name their names, but everybody knows who's doing the hard work, but I think they all should be doing it. Like, there's 37 of them. There's a wee small army there between Fina Fahl, Fina Gale and the dependent and all the rest. Why have they not went against the House and picketed it, stood outside and stood up for the people? We represented them to stand up for us and we don't feel like they are. We're sitting back here and we're watching just so much lack of an action, like a planning, like a progress. Like, we see the make-up committee meetings. This is serious, important meetings for plans, for roll-outs. We've just seen them cancelled, just a stroke of pain. Somebody asked a question. No, I don't like that question, I'm getting out now, that's not right. One councillor in particular seems to be there's over eight meetings cancelled in the last two years. That's disgraceful. And not only does it be cancelled on a July and you turn around and say, right, we'll reconvene that there now maybe next week. No, that's still kept the original next meeting. So it'll be like three months down the road. That's going to be six months from one meeting was cancelled, ten others. There's only progress being done. We're stuck in Newmansland here. We're up here fighting for the people because of the emergency accommodation needed, the 15,000 and the 400 people on the stage one. That's not good, no flay. You can't just be cancelled on these meetings. What could, other than... I mean, we have had meetings that have gone ahead and there's been motions passed and calls for this, that and the other, right? What could the council be doing that they're not doing then? What is your sense of what they could say, right, well, we're waiting on this from the Department of Housing or this, that and the other. What do you think the council could be doing now that would make you and other affected by this field that they're working for you? Well, what you just said, I don't like to hear these headlines. It seems to me they're happy headlines and motions, motions passed. There's over, as people know, there's over 600 motions goes to the council every year, 600 motions and a lot, 500 of them every year would be in the position of meetings. But these motions are just headlines. On May 2021, the motion was passed off to the Minister of Housing for Modular Homes by these 37 councils. So everyone of them agreed it needed to be done. But whenever a hit was ignored, they just sat back, waiting to say, oh, so we've sent an email. She said up, follow it up, put the pressure on, get something done. Like, what's their plan? What was their plan after that? If they turn around and says, yes, we will give funding. Had anybody done the homework in the background to say, right, I know a modular home man here is will turn around us here, scheme for it. That's a plan on the programme plan. Like, Mayo have invested out of the Mayo County Council on professionals. They've tended for professional people to help. And if it only go into the council, think that they need professional help. Which I do, definitely believe that they do. Well, they need it, they need to do it. That's like these applications. There's nobody out there can tell me that these 400 applications are only waiting and pirating priority to be recognised. There's enough microcontents alone that these people should be going on, rolling forward. So that pulls it down to 300. You know, there's a lot of things out there. There's IT system that's coming up on the computers. So that's the question I'll be asking. As a council, are they ready for that now? They're ducks lined up on a roll, which I'm more than I'm asking. I think they're not. Right, so what's the situation with today? I mean, there is a scheduled meeting that is scheduled to go ahead. I mean, are you happy for that meeting to go ahead or do you want all of the business suspended to deal with and listen to the concerns of the demonstrators today? Like, what do you want from today? How do they... Well, listen, we want them to listen to it or frustration and their lack of action and I want them to answer some questions about the progress, about our fears of the leadership and about what is the plan for the emergency housing of the people. There's people living in damp halls. They've got emails for over a year. It's not good enough. There's old people in their 80 years of age that's living in damp houses. That's not good enough. And to stop the problem from happening down the line, that's £15,000. They need to put pressure on the departments. There's no need for the ordinary home owners shouldn't have to run to Dublin every time about. They just shouldn't have to every time we want some. These people represented us, need to be doing the fighting for us on there. I don't hear half of these councillors doing half enough and especially for the leaders. The CEOs, they're shocking and absolutely discreet, some of us were mans. John McLaughlin's nickname, that's the bottom line, my eyes. All right, well, that is your opinion but I understand where the frustration is coming from. What's been agreed for today, then? Well, really, what's agreed today is we're going to get to address the council and it'll be about why we're here today, what we're sick of, how we feel let down by the council. That's going to be coming at 11 o'clock as they tried to have a meeting earlier at 9 o'clock and behind closed doors but it says no. If this is supposed to be live in Facebook, let the people hear the questions we've got to answer. Let the hear the questions that the answers that the council give us. They have been ignoring the Mike Action Group's emails and phone calls for the last five weeks, not a word. So listen, the people is putting on pressure, you can see things happening, you can see little things happening, not enough, but they're turning around, they're telling the Mike Action Group they're going to have a meeting every two weeks. Now I don't want them to be one of these stupid things to turn around and say a meeting is just a cod's wallop, just to delay stuff but at least they'll know what's happening or what their plan is and they can put pressure on to say, listen, any word in these major homes, any word in these emergency people, these housing because listen, we're willing to cross the line to the next step and that is taking over a government building which we shouldn't feel like we shouldn't be having to take days out of work to put pressure on this here but we are and if they don't meet the demands, we're going to follow through with taking over a government building with the people that need emergency accommodation and their sleeping bags and their tents. And listen, they probably will end up in guards and disruption and hopefully somebody who doesn't get arrested but it's a possibility but it's where we feel like we've been thrown to the wolves or backs you to the corner and we have to come out fighting because if we don't come out fighting, no one gets done. Yeah, we're looking at some images as we speak to you here, live images from outside the council building. There's a good turnout for a Monday morning. You're happy with the turnout? Aye, it seems to be built in there now. It was only supposed to be for 10 o'clock but they know that the council's not coming until 11 so we'll see the real numbers closer to 11. Right, okay, listen, for now Paddy, thank you very much for your time. I do appreciate it. That is Paddy Diver there, 08, 660, 25,000 by the way if you want to have a say on what we're talking about here. We're gonna be joined by a couple of other guests now in the moment. So Paddy, thank you for your time and we'll hand the headphones and microphones over to Ray and Mary. And as I say, we can see there is a good turnout there. No doubt as outside. So we'll see now what our next guests have to say on this issue. Give us a call to an 07491 25,000 by the way if you want to give us a call, a text, sorry, is 08, 660, 25,000. The call is 07491 25,000. I'm flapping a little bit here as we're waiting for our next guests to join us and indeed they can right now. Okay, so we can say good morning now to Mary McLaughlin. Mary, good morning to you. How are you keeping? Good morning, Greg. We would be obviously a lot better if we didn't have to come here today again and ask homeowners to come back out on a Monday morning, take a day off work to protest because of the inaction that has went on for over two and a half years since the original scheme and we're no further forward. You know, people are under serious pressure. They're living in homes that are unfit, unhealthy. Their electrics are dangerous in a lot of houses. I certainly know that Darryl Breen wouldn't live in one of those houses or plug in his kettle for fear of getting electrocuted, but he expects our families in Donegal to live under these circumstances. What do we have to do? Do we have to end up getting arrested? We're regular people, law abiding people. We don't want to be in this situation. It is a disgrace that they have treated us. So shabbily, and I am upset, I'm upset for all the homeowners. Our demands that the council know about, people have already had to move out of their houses. They're already paying rent out of their own pocket, money that they don't have, on top of their mortgage. You would think at the stage that they would release that emergency rental money to people. A lot of people haven't been able to afford to get on the scheme, and they've still had to move out of their houses. So where are they? They're in a complete vacuum. No one cares. No one in this fine building that I'm sitting in here in Lifford cares about their citizens that have voted them into these positions in the first place. We really need action now at this stage. We need this swift processing of all those applications. No more excuses. We need the modular homes. Have any of them even researched it? What companies are they going to use? Or do they expect us to go and do it? To go and do their work, because that's what we have been doing. We have been doing the work of government, and government has not been stepping up to the plate, and our county councillors. Well, we're really beyond thinking about them at this stage, because they have been of no use whatsoever. A year ago, Daryl Brown, a year ago this week, Daryl Brown said that he would fast track the new scheme, fast track the new scheme, 12 months ago, and it's still sitting in a box somewhere it hasn't even been addressed in any manner. You know, local government, local authorities, they know that we are living in dangerous buildings. Councillors are local people. All they have to do is open their eyes, they see their neighbours living in houses that you would not put your pet into. And they think that's okay, they think that's acceptable. And we're all taxpayers. I'm working since I was 17, I'm no different from all the other hundreds and hundreds of homeowners that are out there that are working and paying their tax. And we are still left in this situation where we have to come here to demonstrate it is so unacceptable. It is a disgrace really, you know? Did you ever think, Mary, that you would find yourself in this situation, having to use this type of language? I mean, could you imagine 15 years ago you'd ever be sitting having this conversation? Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I've worked all my life like all the other homeowners.  And it's lasted now from 2006 to 2020, and that's it. Mary, it's just not acceptable anymore. It's a cold Monday morning. You know, a lot of people are at work, couldn't get the morning off. They're doing the school runs or just back from it, looking at some of these live images from outside the county house there. That seems like a good turnout. Are you pleased with the amount of people that have come out this morning? We are considering the stress and anxiety that people are under. It's such a big ask to ask people to come back out onto the streets again in a cold morning. When they're trying to save up whatever money they have for Christmas, some people won't be able to have their Christmas to know. They won't be able to have Santa come into their houses because they're not suitable. What are those people going to do? Like, does no one care at all anymore? It is unreal that this is happening. We have tried. We have constantly written letters. We've made phone calls. And we're just regular people. I have a full-time job. I mean, we shouldn't have to do this. Why are we doing this? Why do we have to do this? How can government allow this to happen to their citizens? Yeah, Ray Darity is also affected by this. Ray, I just wanted to listen to Mary there. What else do you add to that, Ray, other than understanding it and living it yourself? You know, just support her in every way. What she said is 100% right. But I would say, Greg, regarding the turnout here today, I've been talking to people and I've said that people have not got the finances. People are stressed. People are depressed. And what does government, what does county council offices partner through? I was one of the first people to actually go on this scheme back in 2020. One of the first people to be called. I'm living in a house with the waters coming through the roof, running down the walls. And the actual inside of the building has fallen apart and it's supported by slabs. I have nowhere to go to rent because you can't get anywhere to rent and anywhere that you could get.  And I think it's disgusting. And I think that for us to have to come out here in a Monday morning again, so close to Christmas and poor people with no means of finance. And that's got to the point where people don't have the money to do certain things. And they've been asked to come out here again, like beggars.  And I'm the same. I can't afford to be here, but I have to be here. You have to try and stand and fight because that county council on there are not doing enough for the people. So let me ask you Ray, sorry, go on. You're probably actually going to ask the question. I was going to say what do you need to hear from today because obviously Paddy Diver's going to be another representative. So you're going to go into the council chamber and you're going to say a lot of what's been said here already, okay? And there'll be a lot of sympathy and it's terrible and all that kind of stuff. But at the end of the day, what do you need to hear today to get a sense that you're being listened to, that something might change? Because as you say, a lot of people in the mouth of Christmas have taken time off work or gone to a lot of effort to be there today. We just, you don't want it just to be, you know, just more conversation. Yeah. Well, what you're saying there's 100% right. What I would like to hear today is what as the plan, because I'll tell you this now from my own experience, they come out with us 5,000 quid for redeemation work on the houses and I phoned up and I said to the gear, the 5,000 that you give me for repairing my house now, does that there come off the actual 420? And she says, yes, it does. And I said, so you're going to give me 5 grand and ultimately my house is going to be demolished, taken to the ground.  And then you're taking it off the total grant. They couldn't, she didn't answer, she could give me was, yeah, that's right. And I says who and God's name is the people thinking these ideas and plans? And the second thing I'm going to say to you Greg is regarding planning. The Donegal County Council don't seem to have any plan in place at all because at the end of the day, we're all going to be out of homes. We're going to have to move out of them because they are becoming dangerous. We've got nowhere to go, modular homes. They haven't got a plan in place to try to help the people that are shuffling through this crazy situation. Yeah, and listen, the whole country is living in a situation whereby, we're seeing heating bills go up, the cost of living going up, wages in real terms coming down, all of the other struggles, particularly that would be faced into Christmas. This, you's have all of that, but on top of that, you have to deal with your houses falling down around your ears and this sense that there's just no help or support. So however bad everyone listening is feeling, you can magnify that many times and that is the experience of a concrete, defective concrete products homeowner. Yeah, and another thing I would like to say to you is, I have a lot of friends in the same situation as me today and them friends financially couldn't come here today, couldn't take the time off work because they couldn't afford to. And at the end of the day, Greg, we're all living in a world now it's very, very difficult to live on and very expensive for every ordinary person. And you think of the poor families with their young children trying to save for Christmas. And this is the way we're being treated. Do you think me, Hall Martin, do you think Veradgar or Daryl Breener worrying about Christmas and buying their children toys and heating their house and so forth. Them boys are out of touch with reality and they're a disgrace to the people. And I have been on to TDs, I'm not gonna mention them now, but the TDs I've been on to, only one TDs ever come back to me and that's a boy I have a lot of respect and time for and the rest of them are a joke. And that's just to be quite honest with you. Right, what, anything you wanna say finally, Mary? Well, I just want to really reiterate the emergency that this is. We are living in a humanitarian emergency in Donegal at the moment. We have families living, trying to sleep in houses that are wet and damp. Can you imagine it? It's unimaginable. And unless you're in one of those, you have no idea what's going on. We need the council today to release that funding so people can go out and rent houses for themselves, try and find somewhere suitable to live close to where they were living.  You know, there's no logical thinking at all here. We need that to happen though and we need that money to continue. These people are still paying their mortgages and if you have to demolish their house and it doesn't happen until next year or the year after, the rent, the 15,000 has run out. So that money, that 15,000, it's a joke really, you know. It needs to be an emergency funding for emergency housing for families before Christmas. All right, listen. We can't wait until January, you know. Yeah, because the word emergency is the operative word here. It is an emergency. We know how some of these houses are actually unsafe and it's not just from a piece of plaster falling on someone which will be bad enough. It's actually long-term potential health impacts with black mold and damp. And funny enough, we're speaking about damp later on today on Raleigh, but it's like everything. It's amplified for people like yourselves that own these homes.  I think it's a really good turnout for the day that's in it. And the entirety of the front of the council building is covered in people seven or eight, nine deep. So a lot of people moved by this and a lot of people, Ray, were able to get out this morning. Yeah, another thing Gregor would just like to say to us, I've gone to the bank regarding getting a loan towards fixing my house. My house has to demolish, right? And the actual response I got from the bank is absolutely unbelievable. One of the things I said to them was, I am taking that house back to market value, which is near interest. And they looked at me and they may as well have been talking to that wall over there. They have no way, they don't want to support us at all, but yet now we could pay 70 billion to bail them out and they can't come to us and say, right, we're going to do this now. I think the banks should have to play a big part in us. And what they're doing at the minute is just totally disgusting because there's people out there, Greg, that will not be able to get the finances to do or fix their house. And this is not acceptable. When this happened in Dublin, we all know what happened. They didn't have to do any of this carry on here. The scheme was set up by the government, taken over by the government and everything was done. But yet no, don't go all again. We're looked at as in just let them hash away this way and we'll put this obstacle up, we'll put that obstacle up and we'll do everything in our power to make it as difficult and hard for them as we possibly can. But very finely on that you see, that's what we know as the reality. But if you would have seen a recent interview perhaps with the housing minister of Dara O'Brien and the question was put to him, you've sorted out Donegal, what are you going to do for the people of Dublin now? So, you know, whilst we know the reality on the ground, it's clear that Penny hasn't dropped nationally. Yeah, that's right. It's just the spin that they know. Mary Mo Callaghan, I'm sure was well aware that Donegal has not been sorted. He was just let off the hook in that prime time interview, basically, you know, and Dara himself, if he was a half a decent and trustworthy man, he would have said that he's still working on the Donegal scheme. He wouldn't have just taken the praise the way he did and the people in all those apartments, those fire issues that they're having, they have to be repaired as well. We're not looking for, we're not looking for, it's not a them or us, it's all of us together. Yeah, exactly. And it's no regulations. And there's still no regulations. Would you buy a block out of any quarry in Donegal or anywhere in Ireland today? I certainly wouldn't take over them if I got them for free. We spoke recently to a member of the Constructions Federation of Ireland, Construction Industry Ireland, yeah, is it? Anyway, Construction Industry Federation, he said he wouldn't source products from Donegal if you had a choice, so what does that tell you? Yes, right? Do you know, Greg, just before we go here, I would like to just say this point, we are the people that elect the government and the government that has elected, has elected to do what? To protect the people of the country that has elected them. This government has elected by us, the taxpayer, we're paying their wages. When they hear us fencing something that is wrong, they're in a position that was put to them by us to help us, the people of this country, that government are doing everything in their power to try and put every obstacle up to stop us getting what we need. And what we need is 100% redress and that there's no fault of our own. That's joined the government, no legislation, and we can name a thousand different things. What was the blame there? All right, listen, well done. I know it's tough speaking about that. People are trying to live. Yeah, I know, and I recognize, by the way, that this is your own private life that you're having to talk about, and it's an important part of this process, but it's not easy, can't be easy to have to, We have families that are trying to, sorry, we have families that are trying to live with all the complications that happen in a family. You have all sorts of issues going on, just daily life. Death, sickness, yeah, exactly.  It is an absolute emergency. This is, and if this had been an earthquake, we would have been dealt with immediately, but the fact that we're living in the slow earthquake that's taking place every day, we're just being ignored. It's a really interesting- And it has to stop, it has to stop today. Really interesting way of describing it now. All the humanitarian resources would be on our doorstep if an earthquake happened, and that's how it would be, that's how it happens all over the world, and that's the right way for it to happen. But we're living in the slow earthquake and nobody's doing anything for us.  I really appreciate your time. Ray, thanks very much, Ray, I appreciate it. Ray Daharty there, homeowner, and also you're hearing there from Mary McLaughlin, speaking both very passionately and from the heart and laying bare the reality. And also, we've been seeing some footage of what's happening outside. People are gathered there now, trying to describe it for those of you who aren't watching the show that we broadcast live every day. There are hundreds of people, I would say, gathered in front of the Catahouse in Lifford. They've got their placards, their posters, and they're gathered in really great numbers, I think, for a Monday morning with the challenges that everyone else would have to sort out to get there. 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Okay, you're welcome back to the program. A caller says, no surprise, nothing new from the Council and Government. Do nothing, make promises that don't materialise. Our politicians are happy to stand on European platform, pontificating, chatting BS, great soundbites for their makes you vomit listening to them. This country's gone from bad to worse. The phrase going on at Port Ridge, Bridge Road, and the Children's Hospital sums up this country. Right, okay, I hope now I can speak to Deirdre Bradley, Chair of the Coron Donner Traders Association. Are you there, Deirdre? I am, Greg, good morning to you. Great to have you back on the show, Deirdre. Right, okay. Tell us what's happening in terms of, is it businesses losing money because of hackers? Well, unfortunately, the Traders Association was one of the victims to this awful thing that's happening. Apparently, from what we've been told, it is happening a lot, but we want to create awareness. It is invoice interception, is what we're told it's called. So we were paying for an event that was organised here, a very successful event that was organised here in town. We received the invoice, we paid it as you do normally, online, but unfortunately it wasn't paid to the person who should have got the money. So two people are out. We're a voluntary group. We're dealing with other people's money. We rely on fundraising to pay. Now we're left with a supplier who has fulfilled his side of the contract, done the event, made a fabulous job of it. And we're left now 1000s down because the email was hacked. So they obviously were able, the hackers, these criminals were able to gain access. They knew that an invoice was due, an invoice had to be paid, so they got access to a system somehow. And then in the middle of it, they were able to maybe send a message, I don't know if you want to divulge it, saying send it here or this is a new invoice or whatever it might be. It was two invoices and another invoice was sent and they were able to reply to say that, oh, this is the bank that we want to pay to. It is under investigation at the minute and AIB are doing everything they can to, hopefully we may have a result, but the company is left unpaid and we're left penniless. And because it's so sophisticated that anyone could fall for this, the only real way to avoid this going forward is to ring someone up and say, look, I've just received another email here with a change of bank details. Like in other words, we have to get rid of the trust that we might have or when things look completely fine, we have to be so bloody extra cautious now that even if things look perfect, we have to double check. That's to try and combat these criminals. That's where we're at now, Deirdre.  They are sitting waiting on someone to put up an invoice. They duplicated for all the world that looked exactly the same. And so as a trade association, we would want to create awareness to make sure that people are not stung again. Like we don't know what way we're going to go. We don't know how to move forward from this. We have 70 members and we rely totally on fundraising and donations to keep what we have built up going.  I was thinking, oh my God, it's bad enough if it was my own money or if it was any of our money, but to lose somebody else's money. But I want to stress too, we have a gift card system in Cardona. I don't know if you heard it. It's a card on a gift card. And I mean, it is growing, it's phenomenal. And but that is a different system altogether. That has nothing to do with the system. It's a very secure and safe gift card service. You know, so I just want to put that out. That's really important to point out because there's a couple of things here that I want to recognize if you don't mind, Deirdre. Firstly, it would have been very easy to not come out publicly and use this as an opportunity to warn other people not to. I don't think you should be punished for that in that people should be confused between, you know, a very secure and successful gift card scheme versus the actions of criminals here that any of us could have been caught out of. But instead, you have come out and you have said, look, everything looked great. We thought we were doing the right thing, but they were so good at what they do and not praising them. But that's the way it is, that even we got caught out. And I think that's the right thing to do. And I think that should be rewarded rather than it, you know, raising any question marks over the gift card scheme. We all feel terrible. I mean, and it's an awful thing to happen. And as I say, bad as it is, but it was my own business. Yes, I would be down thousands and thousands a pound. But at the same time, when it's other people's money, it's worse. I mean, we had a huge event here in October and it was the most attended event for a long time. The children, everybody loved it. It was amazing. And then a few weeks later, when we want to pay the person, you know, we want to pay our bills and this happens. So as it's left us now that the pots empty, we don't know what way we're going to turn and the man's still out his money. So we want to highlight it because it could happen. If it has happened to us as a voluntary group, it could happen to anybody. And that's, and there's not enough awareness out there about it.  But it can happen anywhere. And it's an awful thing. And I mean, these criminals are like they're high class criminals, you know what I mean? It's, and they just move it and move it around. So like we heavily rely on our fundraising and like we're just a 70 member group. Trying to do the best for our community. So it has knocked us back terribly. Yeah, it is, especially when it's for the good of the community, the businesses. And it was such a successful event. And then here we are a couple of short weeks later. All right, listen, as I say, dear, fair play to you for speaking out and letting the public know, warn all the businesses because as you say, until it affects you, it's like. Make the phone call. Yeah, exactly. Make the phone call. Because until it affects you, it's like, yeah, what do they keep saying this stuff on Highland Radio 4? And yet here we are. All right, listen, dear, dear, thank you. Thank you. Dear, Bradley, their chair of the Condona Traders Association. They're out thousands. And it's a real, as I say, it was for the community. It was for the wider community, the business community. And there we have it. They're out thousands and the vendors out thousands as well. Hopefully they'll come up with a solution to that. And hopefully their bank maybe can, hopefully their bank can do something for them. 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It's pretty dire, by the way, at Letakanna University Hospital this morning, I have to say 83 people are sick and admitted to the hospital waiting on a bed at 83. That is, as far as I can determine here, the highest in the country. I'm just looking where Limerick is at because obviously Limerick often has numbers as high or higher than hospital. I can't see anything much higher than Letakanna University Hospital. Sligo University Hospital, 33 people are waiting a bed at the hospital. That's what, 86, 116 people across the Northwest.  It's really quite remarkable. And as I say, it's far and above any other figure in the country. University Hospital, Limerick, 74. Cork University Hospital, 70. So keep in mind, those are two cities, two major, major cities. We're a population of 168,000 here. Right, okay. Let's head towards the news now with a break. The Ninetal Noon Show with letter Kenny Credit Union. Do you need to switch your Ulster Bank loan or overdraft? 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Mark McDade from Cairndona was struck by a car while out for a walk early yesterday morning on the N83 at Cumberg near Chum. It is believed that Mr. McDade had driven to Galway to visit his sibling who is on well in hospital. Mr. McDade was taken from the scene to University Hospital of Galway where he was later pronounced dead. The driver of the car, a man in his 30s, did not require hospital treatment. Letter Kenney University Hospital is once again the most overcrowded hospital in the country. There are currently 83 people waiting on beds in LUH, the highest figure in the country. 625 admitted patients are waiting out for beds in hospitals across the country this morning, according to today's IMO trolley wash. A demonstration has got underway outside the offices of Dunne Gaul County Council as defective block homeowners demand action on the crisis. 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GVS Prepaid Europe Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. OK, welcome back to the show Monday morning. That means that this evening you get to look forward to the DL debate. It's a regular show here on Highland Radio every week and, of course, it's also a very popular podcast. It's presenter is Brendan Daveney. He's with us now, Brendan. Morning to you. Morning, Greg. How are you keeping? I'm not too bad. Good, good, good. Right, a couple of big games to go through from the weekend on the show this evening. Yeah, sure. And listen, it's also champions, first and foremost, the Satanta. Fantastics of double-header yesterday. Don't know in the football and the semi-final and the intermediate in Satanta and the Hurlin Junior Final. Can you put the Satantas win into context for us? I suppose particularly playing the interim champions, you know, they are the standard bearers of Hurlin and you would always think no matter what grade that just the history and I suppose the skills of Hurlin, you always think that certainly they lie in that county but listen, Satanta had other ideas and phenomenal performance, particularly in the last quarter. They completely destroyed Glen Armley. I think they won 11 to two points.  So, fantastic stuff. Of course, that competition goes on now. They play Kilburn Geels in like a twinnings cup of the call. So, that gets you under the semi-final stage now. You've only six days to prepare for that. So, hopefully they will have a good night's celebration. So, wee bit tight, Dad, Greg. You won an Ulster title. You think there'll be a bit more time. So, but listen, phenomenal stuff from them. And, you know, for Donegal, it's going to be Ulster and Hurlin to go all the way and to won a title. Let's say, five years ago, they won that title as well. So, listen, Gary McGilligan, we've interviewed from him and Mark Killah and their captain and, you know, very humble guys. Gary's such a down-the-earth type person. So, fantastic to see that and brilliant for Donegal Hurlin. Yeah, and of course, sport, it's about the full range of emotions. You said it was a double-editor, but I think there's a lot of positives. Dad, you'll be taking a lot of positives out of his teams. Yeah, as I was supposed to say, he was, you know, disappointed, but still proud, he's supposed to have done low. Galbo, they were favourites, you know, in that tie, and they certainly put it up, they had a tough first half. There was a big one in that game, he used to sit down to face it in the first half, and only were two points down when they went in and Donegal faced it in the first half, but they were seven down. They tried admirably, you know, the Galbo goal seems to be a bit lucky to welcome off the post-one low-type goals, and it gave them the caution and, I suppose, kind of dictate the game a bit, but this and Donegal back, they're back at senior level, they won the championship, and this and that Galbo team was in that, they made it final a couple of years ago themselves. So, great, great experience there. A lot of people were tipping them to want it, so this and they went down fighting, certainly, but I suppose the main aim for the lowest, first of all, won the intermediate and get back to a senior level, which they've done so. Yeah, Frank Craig is pulling a double duty this evening obviously, he'll be reflecting on the GEAs he always does, but also, of course, it's going to be interesting insight for you to get a chat to him as the writer, along with Anthony Malloy, of his well-received autobiography, it'll be interesting to get an insight from his perspective. Yeah, listen, we'll talk every NBA, but with Frank, I suppose there's a couple of issues coming up this week with players, maybe going outside of the county to fulfill rules and players coming in. Paddy Bradley being noted as joining the Dunnegall Backroom team, you know. What do you make of that? Well, it's just, I suppose people are looking at Colin McFadden, going to take up a rowy slag, one of her best forwards ever, and then we're taking in a top forward from another county, just so it seems a bit strange. Maybe some different insights, maybe. Well, listen, it's not to say that can't happen, but it just seems a bit strange. I wonder what's Colin McFadden's approach? Was this something that was even talked about first? But listen, Paddy's top fill in is great experience and that's what he'll certainly add to the setup. But as you say, Frank, writing Anthony's book, I'm very interested to hear the concept of it because you know when somebody's talking about their life, they're bound to go all over the place, and Anthony's probably talking about 83 at one stage, and then it's 91, and it's 95, do you know? To pull that all together, and of course, Anthony has some fantastic stories in there that are in the book, and I often wonder, it's such a huge process to bring that all together, so it'll be interesting. It's a type of a process, you wonder why anyone would begin it, because there's so much in it. I think for us, yeah, for us. But obviously people with their skill sets, I am a journalist, if there's, allegedly, no, I know what you mean.  You know, the corners? I don't know.  Looks like a spider. You definitely can't. Ran all over your sheets of paper. You can't read that right, but when you're on there, even a pressure show. You considered a career in medicine. Exactly, yeah. What does that mean? Yeah, yeah, no, definitely, but you know, you need to PowerPoint it almost a small bit then. So I just think I would have enough trouble doing something like that, which is pretty basic. So yeah, very, very, very frank. Calla McShane's on the show too. That ties in with your, that ties in, does it? Was he at the Jackson's Hotel as well? Yeah, that's his club, Owen Rose, yeah, they're 50 years, it was 50 years actually in the lockdown there. So they held off and having a kind of gala night. So it was all black tie. We were all smarted up, Greg. So listen, Calla's fantastic lad.  That was their club. Some of them I wouldn't even have realised that, you know, a few fellas who do a bit of business were up on McNamees and that, the hardware place. So it was very interesting to come together and that night and just see the history of the club and what it means, you know, there was videos and there was different things. So it's always special, you know, that real bond. You can see the real team, the community things. It's a massive milestone. It's a great celebration. Okay, listen, well done. That's the DL debate tonight. That's just some of what you can look forward to. It's just after the 7pm news and also then of course available to podcast if you're out walking or whatever you're doing or just listening at your leisure on highlandradio.com. And it's brought to you in association with Sister Sarah's for their ongoing support. You must be launching in there all the time. You can see the belly here. How are you doing all right? Come here and listen, Brendan, fair play to you. I know you're literally going to crack on and work on it so I appreciate you coming into us. Just to remind you, Brendan Daveney, his DL debate show and podcast, it's broadcast on the radio for you tonight just after 7pm reflecting on that mixed bag on the pitch at the weekend and also Frank Craigs in studio. And he has a word with Cahill McShane, the own Rosentorone star, following his attendance at the 50th anniversary at Jackson's Hotel on Saturday night. Thanks very much, Brendan. Right, hi, Greg, I agree with Mary. This government needs wiped out big time. That's one view there. Dara O'Brien's not a great politician. He really let the people of Donegal down. Why does he never come on highland radio and speak to the people? Some minister of housing, he is shame on him. Well, I'm not quite sure when the last time we extended an invitation. So what we'll do in the interests of fairness, we'll invite him back on again and see what the story is. Walker's on the road in dark clothing, says this caller, it's so dangerous and an accident waiting to happen. I think high vis vest should be handed out at pubs. It would help, it's not fair on drivers. That's just one view there. Another, it's a simple one, six or seven words. Hi, Greg, why do people believe politicians? I don't know. 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It's going to be hot off the press very, very shortly, after this book, isn't it? Wednesday, and we're launching it on Thursday evening. Excellent, brilliant. So, come here, tell us the concept behind it. You were a keen photographer anyway? Yeah. And you were obviously looking for things to do, get some fresh air during lockdown, brought the camera with you? Brought the camera everywhere I went, and just every day I started taking anything and everything that was in front of me, mai