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It's been a long and trying six months, but thousands of pubs around the country will finally open their doors today. The reopening will come as a relief, but also with caution as new covid cases continued to stay at an uncomfortably high level to talk about these uncertain times during which they're opening for business again. I'm joined by Paula Crebbin, chief executive of the Federation of Ireland Party.

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Good morning. Good morning, Pat.

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So what is the overwhelming reaction of your members to the day finally dawning?

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I'd say apart from talking to Republicans around the country, it's a mixture of relief and apprehension rather than euphoria. While many of our members are opening, we're very conscious of the fact that our colleagues in Dublin have not been allowed open. We're also conscious of the fact that many of our own members, because of the guidelines being so restrictive, particularly the inability to use the bar counter, won't be open. And I suppose there's there's still a level of despair at the way about mafias and the government are treating the sector and continue to treat the sector.

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So, yes, there is relief. Yes, there is even a tinge of excitement in some areas. And it's not just for our members. I think there's a there's a lot of relief being voiced in communities that a lot of people who have been denied the opportunity to socialise over the last six months will have will have that opportunity again.

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Now, there is the issue, of course, of tourism. And we've heard already reports of huge numbers of jobs in Kerry in Cork at the weekend.

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I mean, a dog walks in the car outside is going to Dublin. Reg, what's the reaction of your members going to be?

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Well, our members are not police people, and it's there is no need for them to be policemen or policewomen overnight. And really, it's up to personal responsibility on behalf of people. Personal responsibility has to be exercised. The fact that you see a Dublin reg car coming in doesn't necessarily mean that you have somebody coming from Dublin, that there's plenty of Dublin registered cars, indeed, including my own. And I live outside of Dublin. So there's I don't think that we can be jumping to conclusions in that respect.

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And as as the as the authorities have been saying, it's really up to people to exercise personal responsibility in this area.

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OK, now the restrictions that you have to adhere to, you can't have bus service. It's got to be table service and you've got to have social distancing. If you can do one meter within the 105 minute limit applies, as it does in pubs serving food. If, on the other hand, you can get two metres social distancing, people can stay there all night, basically.

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Isn't that it there? That's generally the the the gist of it. There's a lot of other stuff around town sanitisation and queuing systems and all of that. But look, Republicans are used to regulation is probably the most regulated sector of any sector in the country. They're used to what they're probably not used to this level of regulation. It does mean that the experience insight in the pub will be different to what it was before. But, you know, I have every confidence that the Republicans will rise to the challenge of applying the guidelines because it is in everybody's interest, not least those people who want to be in a position to open.

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And we're also mindful of the fact that if you if you look at the hints that are coming from official circles that, you know, there are areas like Donegal, like loud, like Waterford that are making noises about. And I'm surprised because, you know, there's there's little or no evidence that you have any issues coming from the pubs that have been open, five cases out of a total of three thousand and thirty six.

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And I know I have to just interrupt you there, because the people from the left have been saying that we don't know for sure because people are getting it in their homes.

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And as I said, I'm afraid it doesn't jump out of the fireplace. Archie has got to be brought into the home. I'm someone who contracted it somewhere else. So we don't know if restaurants and pubs serving food have been a source of infection for sure. For sure.

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So if we don't know, we so we we go back to whatever bias or prejudice that we have and we say, fine, we keep those eyes closed. But all the things that they haven't looked at is if you look at the pubs and restaurants that are open, there are thousands and thousands of employees there if the employees are not. Contracting it, how can they then say that it's it's coming from there? I think there's a bias in certain parts of effort against the pub trade, and I think Colvert is a convenient vehicle for them.

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But again, I have to remind you, we had a case cited by Professor Luke this morning in South Korea in a Starbucks restaurant where one person gave 27 customers at covid-19. None of the staff got away because they were all wearing masks. So in those restaurants, people have been visored or masked and they're less likely to get it, even though they're spending a full day on the premises because any customer coming in with it is not going to infect them because they are they are protected by and large.

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So that correlation is not necessarily, you know, well, correlation.

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I'm the same team that has, you know, spent months and months dithering on the whole question of masks, which which if we believe if that had been implemented sooner, it might have had might have brought better results. But would be that as it may look, I think our members will provide a secure environment that provide a safe environment. And I think that we've got to the stage now where we cannot continue at this last minute pulling up the plug like happened in Dublin on Friday, because there is a lot of cost in that, and particularly for those doing food, because there's a lot of fresh food going astray.

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And that's apart from the mental anguish.

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And people people contact me, Partick, are saying, what about your staff? If a member of your staff comes to you and says the crowd over here with Dublin accents, they're ordering pints and sandwiches or whatever, and I don't feel safe around them because they, you know.

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They're in MySpace, they're they're completely oblivious to the rules. What should the pub owner do? Should he ask the jobs to leave?

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I think that that's a particular one that will have to be addressed in any given set of circumstances. But in reality, I don't I don't think and I come back to this, it's not the publican's job to police, you know, it is to protect his or her staff.

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That's the point I'm making. It is to protect the staff until the customer isn't. Indeed.

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Absolutely. Absolutely. But look, I live in County, MD. There are a lot of people with Dublin accents in county Medes. And if everybody with a Dublin accent was, you know, it could be in Donegal accent next week. It could be a loud accent the week after, it could be a meat accent if there is such a thing the week after. So I think we've got to be very careful about looking to make publicans, police, people, they have to police the premises.

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They obviously have to make sure that everything is as safe as possible for their for their staff, for for themselves and indeed for their customers. But they can't be police people. All right.

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On that note, thank you very much for joining us, Portakabin chief executive of the Vintners Federation of Ireland.

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So 12 to seven, five, four, two, three. Tell us about yourself. Well, I'm at one point Julie Maycock says 60000 untrendy. I've had multiple crashes and I have outstanding finance of double my asking price, not exactly as advertised on every second hand.

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