like but we're sucking our freeze fee freeze at the minute so we can't stop them and even if you could you wouldn't have anyone come through your doors because no one can afford it to everybody in the country's on their knees right now so it has to come from the government they have to support us they have to give us they have to give us better pay but they also have to give us back our title of educators they've taken that away from us like and we need to beat we are educators we are the first people that the children come in and see we help with everything and a lot of people have you know really good qualifications and effectively earning minimum wage as well i mean they're not going to stick around for very much longer yeah it's not helping our staff crisis at the minute like it's very hard to get people in and then whenever they're in it's very hard to keep them whenever the wages are so low of course listen parents are going to be inconvenienced by this and it's a sickness but they get it to a lot of parents whilst they know this has created complications for them that they support what you're doing because they understand why you're doing it yeah right so you're that 130 today and you're back tomorrow what time tomorrow in case people want to come down and join you if the weather's a bit better tomorrow i don't think i'll get any better tomorrow half tan i'm trying to be optimistic here aurora oh i love you're sitting in the office i'm on american square here with an umbrella all right okay yeah all right i get you and you're 100 right listen come here we wanted to speak to you just to offer our support as well to what you're doing down there and we hope a resolution is found soon because we know the department that you're engaging with are issuing billions left right in the center and we just hope that they they they recognize the importance of this sector to society as a whole not just the sector itself and back is thanks for your time thank you so much all right take care yourself bye bye all right that's aurora mccormick there director of auroras hobbits they're down at the market square in letter kenny until 130 today back tomorrow again between 10 30 and 130 i think so if you want to give them a bit of support um they do great work um and for not great reward uh either i think is a bit of a consensus there shall i do a few comments on the pensions to self-employee get anything that was addressed there as well uh retirement if when you retire in order to live the manner you're accustomed to you have to keep working yeah possibly unless you're in a massively massive uh income job uh a pension is the government's clever way of slowing slowing stopping the state pension and if so why are we paying sure a high percentage of pier site it's not for our pension uh hi greg do we not pay the tax when we're we're taking the money out when we get to the age uh nothing for free yeah indeed that was covered if you work all your life paying into a pension and you die before the pension pays out what happened to the pension well there's two types of pensions uh both were referenced uh there um what about the government taking the tax off the pension funds at present that comes in from liam and other people should definitely save for their pension at present for every pensioner there are four workers by 2050 it's expected that for every pensioner there'll be two workers that's unsustainable therefore in the future either the rate of state pension will reduce all the age will be pushed out or additional substantial taxes will have to be applied to workers there is a pension time bomb on the horizon yeah indeed um i think we'd uh all uh agree uh with that okay uh kieran fits gerald a former god ombudsman's commissioner an rt producer who's paralyzed and wheelchair pound to follow an accident in 2016 uh joins us on the program now thanks for your time kieran i do appreciate it good morning greg and thank you very much for having me on the show no it's uh it's uh it's our pleasure it's a very it's important um spinal injuries are and they've published a pre-budget submission calling on this government to automatically provide medical cards to people living with a spinal cord injury and to do so without review for a period of 10 years so i suppose the starting point is what's the current lived experience of many people well the current lived experience of people with a spinal cord injury varies greg because the injuries and the level of severity of the injury can vary but on average people suffer uh limited mobility very often paralysis in my own case for example i'm classed as tetraplegic or quadriplegic so that's wheelchair bound with you know limited movement of fingers and arms as well um that's the most obvious thing that you would see if you met somebody with a spinal cord injury what you might not see are some of the hidden things like the fact that people have bladder and bowel control uh is is very often gone so people have to wear catheters colostomy bags um and the other hidden thing is that that in itself can lead to being prone to infections like so there's the very obvious stuff that you could see if you met somebody with a spinal cord injury but then there's also the very hidden stuff that you don't necessarily see at first glance yeah and it affects obviously every part of the country in donagall there's 78 donagall people we know of living with a spinal or uh cord injury uh what why is uh automatic uh access to a medical card uh so important that it was one of the key submissions of this pre-budget submission it's important for people because uh firstly when people suffer a spinal cord injury which can you know can happen anytime and to a simple fall or car accident or you know a work accident whatever it might be and your life is turned up sadan greg almost immediately and your world will never be the same and the first thing the hsc do then is uh do a means test uh so they check out the person's finances to see if they qualify for a medical card uh the bar is very low if you earn more than 164 euro a week you will not pass that uh means test so in fairness to the hsc they then operate a discretionary system and they they will give a card on discretionary grounds taking in your whole circumstance and severity of your uh your impairment and all the rest of it and of the 2200 service users for spinal cord injuries Ireland we estimate that about 700 don't have medical cards and uh the importance of it which is in turn is the question you asked me in the first place the importance of it is we need medicine on uh on a daily basis very often i'm on 19 different pills a day myself just to kind of keep normal we need um equipment wheelchairs standing frames shower chairs as i mentioned cross three bags and the rest and of course um medicines uh and and access to a gp they're the things it delivers which as you can imagine are are very expensive and kieran can i ask if you are approved for a medical card is that for life or do we still have a situation that we see in other areas of medicine that someone who clearly uh is going to be in the same conditional worse going forward has to reapply for medical cards if we got rid of that system so in other words if you are approved for a medical card and it's very very clear that you have uh an injury that's not going to reverse uh that it's there for life and you don't have to continuously keep applying and justifying your need of it i'm afraid not greg and we've made it we've made it very clear that access to a medical card that we're talking about would be on medically certified grounds so that it's very formally signed off by a senior medical consultant or our team that you have this injury and that it's not likely to improve it would be brilliant if people with a spinal cord injury thought that they would improve at some stage but we know we'd all welcome that but but that's not that's not going to happen at the moment if you do get a medical card for which people are very grateful of course and it is subject to review either annually or once every three years the longest at the moment that anyone has one for his three years and a review can involve submission of bank statements income assets assessment of the household income all of that so the people who do have a medical card still live with the concern that it might be taken away on review in a year's time or two years time or three years time the effect of that on some people is that they're a little bit scared to get into the workplace because people want to get back to work i mean the ideal for someone with uh with the spinal cord injury is that they go back and become a taxpayer yeah it's counterintuitive the system isn't it uh uh kieran it's it sort of is um so what we're asking for is that if um if a person does have a card that you push out the review cycle to 10 years which gives a person a chance to take up employment to make a plan because it's very difficult for some people to make a a life plan if you think that your financial world could be overturned dramatically um in a year or two years or three years so it's very hard for people to make any kind of long-term plan around that so we would like to see that review cycle pushed out to 10 years again because a medical consultant a medical team will sign off to say this is as you put it yourself a lifelong condition it isn't going away anytime kieran you want people uh i mean i would i would imagine and it depends on on each individual but say for instance someone who's of an age uh and an ability to get back to work in some form or other that it's better for them obviously that they're they're out there and interacting with society less of a burden on the state i presume at least in some cases hopefully it leads to better outcomes because the more active and feel more healthy and as much as they can certainly mentally healthy so to sort of have a system in place that discourages that now it doesn't apply to everyone but the discourages that kieran it really beggars belief it it doesn't make any sense no one can make i don't think anyone could make a a constructive and meaningful argument to me to suggest that this is a good idea the way we're doing it right now and that's the means test that's the way i test that's the test for things in my view it is and we don't understand fully the rationale behind uh behind the non provision of it on medical certified grounds and we don't fully understand the rationale of the review system and the review cycle being so short and you put your finger on it greg one of the traditional problems at the spinal cord injuries as a group found talking to people is social and employment isolation is a big problem for people and getting around when your mobile mobility impaired is hard enough and i live in dublin so i have at least access to public transport network and as you say yourself there are 78 people in donnie gall and i know in a show and pretty well because i go on holidays to co-daf on a regular basis to uh to mcglory's and i am i know that the public but it's tough and the i did the notion of being isolated is much more acute and also to uh kiran um you know we talk of 78 people and their families with spinal cord injury you know are they visible uh are they being discouraged from being uh you know back at work back at education where it might suit them obviously that's not going to be for everyone do you know what i mean or are they uh because of the system sort of not seen like they should be okay kiran well listen i hope uh uh sorry kiran did you want to add something sorry no not at all greg not okay i just want to thank you for coming on uh i really do appreciate it and uh and thank you very much for having me and and a and a hello to all these spinal cord injury service users all 78 of them in donnie gall whom i hope are all highland radio listeners okay well 80 percent of them may be cordial statistics uh kiran we look forward to you having you back in in the show in the not too distant future have a lovely day please greg thank you very much take care bye bye kiran fitzgerald a former guard at ombudsman commissioner also an rt producer and kiran himself was paralyzed uh had an awful experience uh spent a long time in spain where he had uh the accident uh a month in a coma after the fall of of appear um and also then spent a long time in doblin hospitals and went through intensive rehabilitation and it was after that intensive rehabilitation that kiran himself uh became a member of the goddess you kind of ombudsman commission at his term of office and during a couple years ago but as you can hear from kiran incredibly busy in terms of um raising awareness and working with that organization the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio join us this friday on around the northwest for a special show 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first national compliment day taking place this friday the 29th of september it's free and it's so uh bloody easy for us to be nice to each other and pay ourselves a compliment so tell us how the day is going to unfold and who's involved in it and i suppose really the idea behind it justin yeah so national compliment day is um it's a a day where we in jigsaw are celebrating the power of kindness um in in helping and supporting the mental health and well-being of young people in our community and greg i think we all agree uh irish people and i'm sure your listeners in doing all are no different have a very complex relationship with with uh compliments we tend to get somewhat dismissive and a bit embarrassed but i think if we all remember our own lives and those times we might have gone through a bad day or somebody might have said something really nice and kind to us that it's something that that made us feel good in that moment and could have potentially changed our outlook on ourselves that day or indeed our outlook um uh on life in general and we know from our work in jigsaw supporting the mental health and well-being of young people and how important a kind word and kindness and compassion are to supporting a young person through a difficult time so we just uh we're inspired with with the idea that well why don't we in a world that seems very dark at times and seems very very uh scary um that we would take the opportunity to try and celebrate the power of kindness and compassion specifically when it comes to supporting our mental health and the mental health of the young people that we all love about and care for yes and we're all different and some of us are more receptive to compliments and also to uh even the commentary that doesn't seem too negative like yeah you're very tired looking today that's enough for some people depending on the type of person they are or their mental state that can sort of detract from their day as well do you know what you mean now some people might say well people are very very sensitive but everyone's different so my point being is that maybe the compliment that you give someone on friday that's the pick me up they need and as you quite rightly say might be enough to make them feel good for the rest of the day absolutely and look we never really know what another person is is going through or experiencing in their day Greg you know like you know we we we go to work or we go to school we go to college you know we interact with our family members and our friends and our daily basis but we ever truly know what people are thinking and what they're experiencing and and that's why again you know from our work uh in in jigsaw meeting and and supporting young people with their mental health day in day out there in pierce rhoda letter kenyon across our other locations in in in ireland is that on many occasions it is the young person will will will say that it is the kind where the kindness that they would have gotten when they came in the door and met with jigsaw staff members and even the idea of we compliment them on their courage to to to come and meet us because you know um reaching out for help with with challenges your mental health takes courage and we recognize that and we compliment the young people who come to us and many many of them say how impactful that was to make them feel better about their decision to reach out and get help and I think if we again if we think about our own lives Greg and think about the times where somebody said something nice it could be when when a teacher might have said something nicer a coach might have said we played a good game or a colleague said you did a really good show there Greg I really enjoyed that um that how that made you feel and that does stay with you and and I think it's sometimes that we we tend or said there'll be a lot of commentary or negativity well we want to change that commentary because we know the world is can be scary but we also know the world can be full of kindness and compassion and I'm sure the people of dunigal who continually show their kindness and compassion um uh will will stand up um on on friday and help us celebrate national and we do have kindness and compassion and we show it when it's needed but we don't always show it and you know sometimes we can actually be quite enclosed and and we might be thinking nice things but not say them a lot our interactions will be how are you arm grand how are you it's a it's a greeting it's not a meaningful question or we could have a chit chat and and I might be thinking something positive you and you of me but do we actually relate that let friday be the day where you say oh by the way I must say such and such do you know what I mean like it's simple it's free uh and we're probably thinking anyway we just have to or rate it is there a fund raising element to this as well too because of course jigsaw is an organization that does uh rely on the complement of public generosity absolutely yeah no we look as the national youth mental health charity we absolutely need the support of people to enable us to help and support more you more young people and you know we provide free confidential non-judgmental one-to-one talk therapy services as I said they're in letter kenny and pierce road with damien and their team in jigsaw donnie gall but also in in in 13 other locations across the country increasingly to greg would like this you know we're doing a zoom call increasingly uh in jigsaw we are providing more and more services online to make sure that young people if they're open in a show on or in the south donnie galler places that we can't get or they can't get into letter kenny to make sure that we're there and we can be there to support them but to do that we need the support of people to enable us to do that through fundraising so as he said yes national complement day you can support the campaign we would love um people to do so very simply what we would like you to do on friday if you can show kindness and compassion to those around you by giving a compliment and and and recognizing others and then if you can visit our website jigsaw.ie forward slash euro star where you can make a donation to enable us to help and support and show kindness to more and more young people and it's very important uh on programs such as this justin and we try and do it in a very constructive manner we often talk about gaps uh in in our mental health services and then in another piece we might talk about the importance of reaching out and and it's possible that people might conflate those two things and say there's no point reaching out because i heard on the show yesterday that there are gaps in services there are gaps in certain services and what have you and it's very important that we highlight those to try and close them but it's also very important to point out right now that there are fantastic services available and pretty much if someone reaches out they will get the help that they need at least in the first instance and that's the work that jigsaw does and it is there so as to say uh just a reminder that if someone's listening to this and they aren't in a good space or they feel they need help jigsaw and other organizations are there so yes of course there are issues we need to address but there are fantastic fantastic services like yours with a whole team of people just waiting to try and help people absolutely greg and i think i completely um um and applaud you for saying that because yes sometimes it can seem like uh with commentary that that um that the support is there where in fact the support is there and organizations like us and jigsaw are there to provide support and again it's not just for young people yes we provide our our direct one-to-one support for young people but we're also there as a resource for parents for teachers for coaches for anyone who have young people in their lives and to provide again advice and guidance on how you can support that young person in your life so i would i would suggest that um everybody for more information about the range of of supports that we provide in the range of information we provide as i said to young people to parents and to other adults supporting young people please visit our website jigsaw.ie to find out more and as i said in terms of national compliment day on friday 29th is friday if you can wake up in the morning with the sunny disposition because storm agnus had begun at that stage hopefully with a sunny disposition um and to say to your loved ones and your colleagues and your friends and everyone else give them a compliment and then visit jigsaw.ie for slash your star to support and enable us to provide help and support to more and more young people across duny god and indeed across the country and in a pleasant coincidence friday is actually going to be a nice day uh the nicest day of the week okay thank you very much for your time uh if you want to what is the nicest compliment you've ever received or how has a compliment affected you 08 6 6 go on caroline still wait none mine i'll pay you a compliment every day by turning up and working with you you should be so grateful i play caroline complements all of the time and neve though she says i doesn't leave i don't know it could be slightly more supportive but anyway she's got friday to work uh till friday to work on to something uh work something out 08 6 60 20 and her dad dominic such a lovely fella as well i don't know what's going on uh 08 6 6 25 000 is the whatsapp and text line i'll give us a call an 07 49 kiran oh donald's just walked in here kiran you are looking fantastic have you been working out i would say suave a bit of a tom cruise vibe yeah i'm hoping that we're going to have uh cup monday every day i just have to say the way you come into the cut it's the confidence with which you walk easy on there easy easy on there i'm serious every time okay uh complements keep them coming i keep them start them you never get any friends you will get shut up get off the radio oh you're the boy everyone complains to oh it's 08 6 6 25 000 whatsapp you ever stop moaning you know you're a feet of faller you're a feeling galer you're a shinner you always give those independence an easy ride story of a life kiran but i love it 08 6 6 25 000 whatsapp some text that number what's the best company when you've received pass on a compliment someone we might tie this in with the uh and that's entertainment as well on friday uh okay uh kiran is with me but i do have to take a break we're going to be chatting to by the way just to remind you friday is national compliment day and i just want to say thank you you're all fantastic i love you all thank you so much for listening and you're all brilliant people and uh fantastic brilliant okay but i will come back with more compliments on friday watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland 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okay so it's another busy one we'll get to that in a moment but you are kind enough to put together some news for us let's start with that so uh zoos extending yeah the zoos factory in lily kenny greg is seeking permission to extend his facility at the id a business park the company is planning all the rations and an extension to the plant and the application also includes the addition of 208 parking spaces and new illuminated external signage so a decision on this application will be made with dunig all county council in november all right good stuff interesting event coming up where you can meet those behind some of your favorite crafts i presume yes the meet the makers dunig all craft showcase will take place at lock est castle in dunig all town on friday october the 20th the event will feature unique design related products and fashion network jewelry gifts and home accessories and while the event is free places are limited so to secure a place check out dunig all local enterprise office social media platforms all right good stuff now a phd opportunity which is actually funded as emerged yeah etude dunig all has a fully funded full-time phd opportunity available to investigate student mental health and well-being on the island of errant so this application the deadline is the friday this friday gregg that's september 29th at 12 noon and for more information apply to ly it dot a forest last postgraduate research opportunities fair play i do wonder sometimes though about the naming of these things because of course there are off offshore islands and people might wonder am i included of course you are but you know words are important you didn't name it someone did yeah but anyway be that as it may um right new online pr service launch yeah ireland's first online pr service to fill a gap in the market for sms with limited time and budgets has been launched by the owner of anish communications trish higary trish who previously worked as a journalist with bbc and the average times says it offers high-quality interactive tools combined with one-to-one expert mentoring so the anis expertise pr toolkit is a custom-built integrated system for creating plans and a calendar data it's going to be specific to the client and combine the one-to-one online mentoring sessions so for more information check out aniscommunications.com radio now the radison hotel believe it all not two decades yeah sit you there i just heard the jingle on the way up there um paul bernard's team are this week celebrating 20 years in business and to mark the medistone he's invading members of the public to call into the hotel on friday between 12 noon and 4 30 to join with them and their celebrations john bresnan's across the northwest will be broadcast from the radison while the lillie kenny ukulele orchestra will also be performing here after john shoal oh my good i heard the promos for that right uh shall we get on to what's coming up on this week's podcast who's you guys yeah this week greg i'm joined by the owner of khaki evine in guidore evine od and the executive director of asia matters martin murray even od set up her baking business at the age of 13 and has been working full-time on the venture since she finished second in school a couple of years ago she traveled to dublin and whitlow for work experience during her ty and got the opportunity to see how busy bakeries are brooded during that time evine is currently participating on the food academy program with supervalue and works out of a converted container next to her home at kosh clary here evine talks about the challenges she has encountered since setting up her business i suppose there's not quite a lot of big network of young people like myself and who are doing business and i you're always kind of looking to connect those people and get advice from them but i suppose challenges for me is the fact that it's not quite the traditional route that most people typically go on that i'm the journey that i'm on and so i suppose having that direction and you know constant momentum of you know driving yourself forward can sometimes be hard especially in the quieter seasons and but what i have found is from the likes of you know the leos and those courses that i'm mentioning that are available there like the the drivers sometimes when they're mentoring you along and they just give you goals to work towards and and there's just so much out there and so it's just i suppose trying to keep yourself involved and busy with it all now evine um was a contestant in the law yeah that's great and learned a bit more about her really really impressive and as much drive as you would ever need she's going she's only 20 greg and her her her buzzers is going seven years um got a lot of support from home got a lot of support from udris and local enterprise office um when covher came as opposed to house became busier because her brothers were away they came back so they decided to embark on a covert project which uh entailed uh purchasing a container and they modified the container and that was where she's working out of now overlooking uh caddy river all right brilliant continued success now you flagged i think last week of the week before uh growing business with age uh initiative uh and and the your second guest ties in with that yes the growing business with asia from the north west knowledge hub conference is taking place and that a kenny greg as you said on monday october the second and tuesday october the third i spoke to martin moray executive director of asia matters who are organizing the event and in this clip martin explains what the organizers of the two-day seminar are hoping to achieve while we we're trying to do working with the partners we want to get people to reimagine dunny gall as a talent region with letter kenny as a key business hub and promote the dunny gall dary stroban north west city region partnership and people are surprised when i tell them that this city region partnership has a population of over 300 000 people people are not aware of that and as i said to show examples of great fdi companies like tcs and the work they do indigenous companies like urge pressings and indeed electorate that started from there so i think it's it's a positioning piece and it's not just the people in the room it's the branding around this and the people we reported to after and the follow-up from the people in the room and the partners are in self who's being introduced to whom who's being encouraged to visit dunny gall and see for themselves and who from dunny gall is meeting with the key asian stakeholders all right so okay so exploring opportunities there no doubt and that could be potentially potentially big opportunities here yeah i think the the i think the main focus greg is an opportunity to network and to meet uh one uh starter one figure that sort of stood out um it's relation to the ivish two-way trade over the last 10 years that figure has soared to 67 billion euro and the reckoned by the middle of this decade that will exceed 100 billion do you imagine just getting 0.5 percent of that 0.25 percent and the only thing that that martin mason is supposed is is when dunny gall is very good for tourism and hospitality it's not the only area where dunny gall is strong on and he mentioned uh two companies uh three companies actually tcs ivish pressings and fun true and i suppose the opportunities there and the opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses to maybe expand and one of the key things he said was as well as as if they get the roots there uh the rest will come so it's an opportunity to build connect and see where things can go from there all right we had two tiny wee clips there two 50 odd second clips from even and martin uh but you dig much deeper in in the podcast it's available now kiran yeah it's available to download out greg and it's also available as you say on spotify and itunes now if people want to listen to it live on scheduled radio it's on on sunday yeah after the six o'clock use greg on sunday evening well what if someone wants to get in contact with you about the show drop an email to businessbatters at hiddenradio.com can you imagine if we rehearsed it kiran no two johnnies wouldn't get a look in uh no no comment listen the podcast is available for you right now um to go and listen to it you let your download it or stream it from the website it's up to you or you can listen to it on sunday kiran back with us next wednesday to preview next week's podcast kiran thanks so much for your time as always we really do appreciate it good morning greg and we'll be back with the last segment after these the eagerly anticipated brand new production of the Broadway smash hit musical sister act is on its way to the board gosh energy theater in dublin join highland radio as we make way to this unforgettable show on friday 23rd of february 2024 your trip includes luxury transfers bed and 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was good morning to you uh we're into the last uh 11 minutes of the night on noon show over 50 now and i have no money left at the end of the month for the pot due to cost of living what happens to people like us when it comes to pensions well that's the problem and uh i think this part of the world you're probably in the majority rather than the minority i'm on a medical card and i recently started a rural scheme we were told that would we would be guaranteed a medical card but now it's reviewed every two years i agreed to do this scheme for my mental health i think it's got more to do with keeping people in a job than actually serving a purpose it appears no one in this country is ever sacked especially in this country if you get a full if you get a public service job here you are there for life our oris hobbits we're all behind you indeed okay they're all down there now in the in the piddling rain out letter candy market square if you can get out and give them a toot and stand with them they'd love that good morning greg i'm 70 in june and have 14 years contributory pension and now receiving a pension weekly of 172 euro 90 cent difficult to meet all the living costs on that weekly income that comes in from john yeah and john i can imagine uh politicians and media bandy about words like fascist to describe those in any way opposed to mass immigration however opinion polls have consistently found citizens want migrant numbers reduced to deny them a voice would not be unwise but on democratic we need a referendum i don't think there's been in arland consistent polls i think there's one opinion poll but one that can't be ignored either uh great here we scots priest in cathedral on sunday laying it on the line to those catholics who voted to repeal the eighth amendment in 2018 and you know what nobody got up from the pews and walked out perhaps the fact that abortion figures are heading for well over 10 000 this year and 40 000 since legislation yet still the state and media silence alliance rules p s plenty of help available for those wanting to travel for abortion not so if you have to travel for cancer treatment hi greg more social housing to be built in balama cool the council would need to upgrade the footpath from st unions to balama cool terrace the footpath is not a meter wide in place it's very dangerous with people with prams and small children this must be addressed before someone is seriously injured anyone else have a say on this thanks from a concerned member of the public good morning greg i received a life changing injury a few years ago and have applied for invalidary invalidity invalid a bigger pardon invalidity pension last july and i didn't qualify i have gps letter stating that i'm incapable of any type of work due to my injury i had to reapply again as my appeal keeps getting turned down my gp says it's a disgrace why they are refusing me in validity pension if i came in from another country i'd get whatever i need this is just my situation they believe the government is a joke hi we had an appointment in dublin hospital two weeks ago hotel car park diesel food nearly 700 euro and we have to go two or three times a year crazy crazy uh tax it's a it's a don't think all tax really isn't it on on our health it's the only way one could uh describe it reboss erin they don't accept student cards but they do accept leak cards but you have to book it online a to use an agent for them if anyone needs a card it's a great alternative if you've no other form of transport to a certain area but you are a student and need cheap fairs hi greg with all the strikes for better pay i heard this morning that td is getting a pay rise next month of 109 euro as they make the rules and hold the key to their own purse strings so where's the priority here they're getting well paid enough by the way regarding transport i've never seen a td in public transport good luck to aim and ryan cycling in this weather appointments in dublin have to have to go up the night before kevin and done no thanks for that kevin uh let's uh see uh there's some longer formed ones here uh greg can you announce an oil spillage on the main road between the turnoff for carragans to the anthony pipe because already skidded off uh but it's okay thank you greg no problem happy enough to mention that um let me see here greg uh back uh back to that of kenny university hospital almost two weeks ago my mother-in-law who's almost 89 was taken to luh in an ambulance at 8 p.m and left in the ambulance outside the ed until after midnight that's over four hours then got into the ed got a cubicle with a trolley and left on it all day we were there we were in it at five p.m she said she was desperate for the toilet but nobody was listening to her i asked a nurse she said they had to check with the doctor to see could she get out of bed as blood pressure was too high so waited another 10 minutes and went back to nurse and said even if we could get a commode uh she'd be over ace up another 10 minutes i went looking for nurse again as my mother-in-law was almost in tears and saying please please help me as i didn't want to wet myself the nurse uh again fluttered again i gave up and asked an ambulance man then he got a nurse to help her she didn't get a bed until after 10 p.m which then included time in an ambulance was 26 hours for a fragile six almost 89 year old the staff are doing the very best but edu h is a disgrace and needs new management as if any business was being run so badly and so many complaints the management would be chased ages ago and replaced by a team that are capable of the important job they need to be able to do a caller says lgbt abuse between partners is also high and most abuse against men is not reported or counted in government statistics such as parent alienation which is more likely to be undertaken by a female than a male also please do remember that all abuse is wrong no matter the gender and that there's a tiny proportion of funding on abuse given to men and non-unparent alienation organizations in Ireland so mostly unheard there's not one shelter in Ireland for men or alienated parents and children to escape to in the whole of Ireland why they ask hi greg he's not there caroline or else i would have gone to him by now thank you very much dear uh hi greg the hsc regularly caroline can speak in my ear i think it's only fair that your commentary to me should be published caroline so that i think it works on other other other shows you know you go hi greg do this and i go okay caroline and the listeners can hear hi greg the hsc regularly cancel appointments in gallway on the day of the appointment without any prior noticed individuals traveling from donna gall sometimes costing the individual for overnight stays etc the hsc should be made pay compensation for these cancellations i never even considered that can you imagine the public transport is a disgrace in this country the promotion of electric cars in ireland is also a joke they are not carbon neutral given they are powered by cow cowl powered electrical plants well they are in the aunt you know 40 odd percent of our electricity is is green generated by green resources and also it's not necessarily what they are burned on it's what the omit as well so if you look at a petrol in diesel car it's obviously mined at fuel and process but it also then produces in the burning process nasty elements so i get where you're coming from it's often said but at least you know 40 percent of the power is green generated and at least they don't put out anything nasty so it's not an equal comparison it's a false equivalence but i appreciate your comments and i'm going to read it on here they are not environmentally friendly giving mining involved with the minerals required for batteries the batteries reduced in capacity year and year reduced range by around 12 per cent per year i didn't experience that in the electric car i drove to you honestly it maintained its capacity uh battery replacement costs 12 000 euro the batteries are also extremely dangerous in the event of an accident particularly if they catch fire okay and then they want to talk about the pressure on the grid alan orreilly of color weather joins us hi alan hi how are you doing great i'm doing good all right what's the story uh with with agnes i don't want to be too pro we'll talk about us here i think we're going to get uh a light passing you can tell us about that in a moment but what's the situation for our friends down the country at the moment so a large number of trees have come down in own cork city in north of cork a lot of power out which is popping up now around cork and into tipperary the strongest of the winds have been cork waterfront so far very heavy rain some localized flooding it's absolutely lashing rain here in carlo at the moment and some strong gusts as well so agnes is really making herself felt in the south of the country and the centre is just off the southwest and it will track up along the west coast but the i just aren't passing through the northwest through this afternoon and this evening and because we are having the eye passing over us less rain less wind yeah so you have some heavy rain and you will have some some more rain but you will escape the worst of the wind still custom possibly up to maybe 80 kilometers an hour on the west northwest coast there but you will miss the worst of the winds um but still some very heavy rain the rain will clear and the winds will ease off true this afternoon so for once the northwest is escaping the worst of the atlantic storm all right alan stay safe thank you so much for your time we're back with you tomorrow morning at nine john breslin is next good morning to you all you need to make your house a home at Patterson's the hall livered from garden furniture to kitchens soap us and dining sets all under one roof


Hello and welcome to the series of video lectures on the subject digital techniques for secondary IT students. I am Dr. Srisal Gajbar and in this video lecture we are going to implement half-subtractor and full-subtractor circuits by using Verilog HDL language. So at the end of this session you will be able to implement half-subtractor circuit by using Verilog HDL. You will also be able to implement full-subtractor circuit by using Verilog. So software that we are going to use for simulation is model sim student edition. You can download this software by using this link which is provided here. It's a free software so any one of you can download and run the Verilog programs. The first circuit that we are going to implement is half-subtractor circuit. So half-subtractor circuit is a combinational circuit that performs subtraction of 2 bits. So this circuit needs 2 binary inputs and 2 binary outputs. So this is a block diagram for half-subtractor circuit. There are 2 inputs A and B and the outputs are D that is difference bit and bar output bit. So this is a truth table. So from this truth table one can find out the logical expression for this output that is D as well as for BO. Here you can see the implementation diagram for the half-subtractor circuit. So the D in this case is equal to AX or B whereas BO can be given as A bar into B. So this is implemented here. So basically we are going to use these equations for implementing our Verilog program for this circuit. So this is the Verilog module definition for half-subtractor circuit. Here our module definition will start with the module keyword. The name for this module is given as half-underscore-subtractor. Inside the bracket the list of inputs and outputs are given. So the inputs here are A and B whereas the outputs are D and BO. In these 2 lines the inputs and outputs are defined. In the next 2 lines we start with the assign keyword, we are going to assign the difference D equal to AX or B. So what is going to happen here? The bitwise XOR operation between A and B is going to happen and this value will be assigned to the D. Similarly the bar output will be calculated as A bar and operation with B and this will be assigned to BO. And we are going to end our module definition with the end module keyword. So this shows the test bench for half-subtractor circuit. Here the inputs are shown by using the reg data type whereas the outputs are defined by using the wire data type. Reg because we want to store some values in the inputs. The next line shows the instantiation of the half-subtractor module. So half-underscore-subtractor. HS1 is the name of the object and inside bracket we have passed the arguments that are required here. Then similar to our previous circuits initial begin and between initial begin and end we are going to provide all possible input combinations to test the correctness of our module. And finally we are going to write the end module. So on your screen these are the modules for half-subtractor circuit as well as the test bench for half-subtractor circuit. So let us compile. Let us see our compile is successful or not. And as you can see here our compile is successful and there are no errors in this case library and inside library we will go to the test half-subtractor simulate then go to the add to wave all items in region. You can see here there are two inputs to our half-subtractor circuits A and B and there are two outputs namely D and BO. So you can see here D and BO. So I have simulated the output and here you can see the simulation results for A and B both 0 0 the difference is 0 and the borrower output is also 0. For the input combination 0 1 that is A is 0 and B is 1 both the difference bit as well as BO that is borrower output both are 1 right. So this also verifies our truth table of half-subtractor. For input combination 1 0 you can see the difference bit is 1 whereas the borrower output is 0. And finally for the input combination 1 1 you can see the difference bit D output D is 0 and the B output is also 0. So this verifies the correctness of our module definition for half-subtractor circuit. Now pause the video for 1 minute and write down the answer of the given question. The correct answer in this case is work library. So all the files that are necessary for simulating are available in this work library. So the next circuit that we are going to implement is full-subtractor circuit. This is the block diagram for full-subtractor circuits. It's a combinational circuit which will have 3 inputs and 2 outputs. It is going to perform the subtraction of 3 bits and the inputs here are A, B and borrow input that is B in and the outputs here are B out that is borrower output and the difference bit. So this is the truth table for the full-subtractor circuit. You can go through the truth table. So the difference in this case comes out to be B in XOR operation with A, XOR operation with B whereas the B out comes out to be A bar B plus A bar B in plus B into B in where B in nothing but the borrow input. So these 2 equations we are going to implement in our module definition. So this is the verilog module definition for full-subtractor circuit. The module definition start with the module keyword. These are the list of input and outputs. The input and outputs are defined here and here these 2 lines are important for implementation purpose. So here we are going to write assign diff is equal to A, XOR, B, XOR, B in. So which is going to assign the XOR operation between these 3 bits A, B and B in and this is going to be assigned to the diff which is our output. Then this B out is written as A bar and operation with B, this is odd with the A bar and B in and this is again odd with the B and operation with B in. So this right hand term will be evaluated and the output calculated will be assigned to the B out here. So we are going to end our module definition with the end module keyword. So this is the verilog test bench for verifying the correctness of the full-subtractor module. So this is also a module definition. So test bench is also a module here. So module test underscore full-subtractor. Similar to the previous videos where we have written the test benches, the inputs in this case will be defined as a rect data type because you want to store the values there in the inputs and the outputs will be defined as a y data type. The next line will instantiate the object of the full-subtractor module. So full-subtractor space fs1, fs1 is the name of the object and this is, these are nothing but the list of, these are nothing but the arguments. So the arguments here are a, b, b in which are inputs and b out are nothing but our outputs. So once again between initial begin and end, we are going to provide all possible input combinations. So on your screen, these are the two module definitions. One for full-subtractor circuit and one for its test bench. I have saved this file with the name as test underscore full-subtractor.v. Let us compile, let us check our compilation is successful or not. As you can see, there are no errors and warnings, so our compilation is successful. Let us go to the work library and in the work library you can see there is test underscore full-subtractor, let's simulate it, let's go to the add to wave, all items in regions. So here you can see there are three inputs namely a, b and b in, two outputs diff and b out, so let's run the program. So this is the simulation output and you can see here for the inputs 0, 0, 0, both the diff as well as b out is 0, 0. So for the next input combination that is 0, 0, 1 we get the outputs diff as 1 as well as b out also as 1 because you are doing 0 minus 1, so that is why both will be 1, 1. For the next input combination 0, 1, 0 we can see both diff and b out are 1, 1 and similarly you can verify the correctness of our full-subtractor module from these waveforms. So these are the references. Thank you very much.


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