Newstalk Breakfast

Minister for Defence Helen McEntee will today outline a €1.7 billion defence spending plan that will run until 2030.

“When it comes to Christmas gifts, I’m with Roy Keane they are only for kids” . So wrote Deirdre Reynolds in the Irish Independent. Deirdre spoke to Ciara this morning to chat all about gifts for Christmas.

Fianna Fáil TDs and senators can expect the full review into the party’s presidential election before Christmas, according to reports.  There has been significant discontent within the party over the delay in the publication of the review, and with us to discuss more is Sean Defoe, Newstalk Political Correspondent. 

An Garda Siochána has launched a public consultation on the use of body-worn cameras by its members.  Body cameras are already being trialled in five Garda stations, but should they be rolled out nationwide?  Shane discusses with Dr Elizabeth Farries, Director at UCD Centre for Digital Policy, and Dr Pat Leahy, Former Garda Assistant Commissioner for Dublin. 

Overall immigration numbers in Ireland have dropped despite a 40% increase in asylum applications last year, that’s according to according to the European Migration Network Ireland's annual review. 

Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Keire Murphy, Author of the report and Senior Policy Officer, the European Migration Network Ireland's in the ESRI. 

It's Panto season and to tell us all about the best pantos up and down the country, is the Ballymun queen Dame Stuffy who has joined Ciara and Shane in studio.

A new report shows that Doctors at Tallaght University Hospital diagnosed 18 young people with a neurological disorder caused by inhaling nitrous oxide or “laughing gas”. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast with more on this was Hugh Kearney, Consultant Neurologist St James hospital and Trinity College earlier.

Around 8,000 homes, farms and businesses across the country remain without power following Storm Bram. We get the latest on this with Matthew Martin, Meteorologist with Met Eireann  and Graeme McQueen, DAA Media Relations Manager.

Millions of children and teenagers in Australia have begun losing access to their social media accounts after a world-first ban has come into effect, blocking online access for users under 16. Dr Danielle Einstein, the Sydney-based clinical psychologist who laid out the evidence for the ban in the Einstein Report and in her latest co-authored book Raising Anxiety spoke to Newstalk Breakfast.

Three-year extension of nitrates derogation granted. Shane and Ciara discussed this decision this morning.