Highlights from Newstalk Breakfast

Punitive tax needed on vulture funds to stop them buying-up family homes that's the call from Sinn Fein’s spokesperson on Housing Eoin O'Broin and he joins us on the show this morning along with Financial Advisor and Analyst, Karl Deeter.

We’ve been talking about it all morning, let’s come back to ADHD struggles and traditional schools. We ask why do children with ADHD struggle in traditional schools? To discuss Ciara spoke to Claire Twomey, Professional Advanced ADHD Coach.

Anxiety is intensifying in the workplace according to Laya Healthcare Workplace Wellbeing Survey. How do we tackle it?  We’ve teamed up with Laya Healthcare to explore wellbeing in the workplace. Today we’re talking to Leslie Shoemaker, Counselling Psychologist and Lecturer in TU Dublin.

The UN Refugee Agency has urged those objecting to providing shelter for asylum seekers to reflect on the consequences of their actions.    This plea comes as the count of new International Protection Applicants without government-provided housing has reached an all-time high.    Nick Henderson the CEO of the Irish Refugee Council spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

The sale of all energy drinks to young people and children in the UK should be banned – thats according to a review of the latest evidence on their effects on health.  The review was led by Dr Amelia Lake, professor of public health nutrition at Teesside University We asked Dr Eva Orsmond, Medical Doctor and Specialist in Overweight & Obesity at Dr Eva’s Clinics in Dublin & Galway should these type of drinks be banned in Ireland?

Donald Trump secured a resounding victory in the first 2024 republican presidential contest in Iowa. We get an update from David Smith, Washington Bureau Chief of The Guardian.

Bigger heavier cars are a safety disaster for other drivers as well as cyclists and pedestrians.   So wrote Dr. Catherine Conlon in the Examiner yesterday.  We get reaction from Ger Herbert Motoring Expert.

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth Roderic O’Gorman gave his reaction to the scenes in Rackett hall yesterday in Tipperary where it seems families of asylum seekers had to run the gauntlet of protesters being restrained by Gardai your reaction to those scenes .

Minimum public open space requirements and smaller gardens are among the new house building rules which have been issued to local authorities. 
 
We get more details on this new building rules from Tom Philips, Managing Director of Tom Philips Associates.

The Oireachtas Agriculture Committee is starting a new campaign in Brussels to highlight why Ireland should “hold” a nitrates derogation of 220kg of organic nitrogen.  For more on this Shane was joined on the show by  Denis Drennan, President of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association and Steven Matthews Green Party Planning and Local Government Spokesman and Chair of the Oireachtas Housing Committee.