00:00 You were told by Manx Care and the Department of Health and Social Care that this access road will be blocked.
00:03 It is not currently blocked. Do you know exactly what's going to happen?
00:06 No, we don't. There is mention of signage and enforcement in the letter that we received from the Chief Executive of the Ottoman government on Saturday evening.
00:18 But what form it will take in reality and how they are going to report it, we have no idea at the moment.
00:26 So when you arrived to work this morning, were you unsure of what was going to be there, what wasn't going to be there?
00:29 Well exactly, we didn't know whether there was going to be barriers or whether there was going to be a gang of people trying to stop people accessing.
00:36 But clearly at the moment there is free access behind us.
00:41 There is a meeting tomorrow with Treasury, tell us a bit about that.
00:44 Well it's a meeting between the officers. We thought it was about cash flow.
00:49 Obviously we have got a problem at the moment that we haven't been allowed to draw down part of the loan money that was agreed.
00:57 And that's making it incredibly difficult for us to actually pay everybody that we need to pay at the moment.
01:04 So hopefully that will get resolved, a bit of common sense will prevail.
01:10 And we can get last year's account signed off and then Treasury will release the next set of a million pounds of funds to us.
01:20 What could you say to the local businesses inside and around Hosea who perhaps don't know what's going on themselves?
01:24 Yeah well we've tried to explain the situation to them.
01:27 They understand that the commissioners have been doing everything that they can to actually meet all the conditions that were included on the planning.
01:39 But again a lot of this has been outside of our control.
01:42 So we've been relying on the actions of government departments to actually assist in this manner.
01:48 Whether it's approving a design for the pedestrian crossing or whether it's actually transferring the land.
01:56 If the department wants a new roadway then obviously we don't own the land on which the roadway needs to be built.
02:04 So yeah, our hands are tied as usual.
02:08 Yeah so obviously people are still accessing the site.
02:11 I can tell people if they are planning to visit the cars that they follow the advice given by Manx Care back in January.
02:19 That people drive safely and be aware of the fact that there may be additional traffic on the road between Ballaroach Road and our entrance.
02:29 And one thing I do just want to ask is there's a requisition meeting being called.
02:34 Can you understand that people have found frustration with the cost of this as well as the access ongoing issues?
02:38 People are getting rather fed up.
02:40 Well I think there's a lot of fed up people about a lot of things on the Ironman.
02:44 Obviously it's a situation that we never planned to be in.
02:49 We're doing our best to actually overcome those issues and hopefully all this will be caught around here.
02:56 Yeah and just finally, obviously Manx Care have reiterated that they are going to put things in place so the access road can't be used.
03:04 What would happen to the businesses for you guys?
03:06 Did you say that commissioners can still use it?
03:09 Well at the moment they're saying that commissioners, staff and our contractors have access to the site.
03:14 So strange enough if they can drive safely I don't know why other people couldn't drive safely either.
03:21 And if it does come to this borders or whatever's in place to stop people coming, how do people get to the roundhouse?
03:28 Where would people park? How would they get here?
03:30 Well at the moment there's no control over where anybody parks.
03:34 But again we're trying to say to people, whatever you do make sure that you park considerately and you don't block any emergency access point routes.
03:45 But in an ideal world there'd be access to this site?
03:47 Well at the moment there still is.
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