Doug Beattie, Unionist MLA for Upper Bann, joins the programme along with today's panel of Marian Harkin, Minister of State at the Department of Further and Higher Education and Independent TD for Sligo- Leitrim, Eoin O'Broin, Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Mid-West and Rory Hearne, Social Democrats TD for Dublin North-West.

<p>Doug Beattie, Unionist MLA for Upper Bann, joins the programme along with today's panel of Marian Harkin, Minister of State at the Department of Further and Higher Education and Independent TD for Sligo- Leitrim, Eoin O'Broin, Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Mid-West and Rory Hearne, Social Democrats TD for Dublin North-West.</p>

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