Jack Horgan-Jones and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to discuss the week in politics:

• In another awful week for RTÉ before an Oireachtas committee, was it a mistake for Sinn Féin to raise the idea of an amnesty for those refusing to pay their licence fee? And is is sustainable for prominent ex-RTÉ figures like Dee Forbes, Rory Coveney and Breda O'Keeffe to avoid appearing at the committee?

• The spiralling cost of the National Children's Hospital means renewed analysis of the Government's ability to plan and deliver big projects.

• And as the Social Democrats get ready for their conference this weekend, the panel takes stock of the party's fortunes. 

Plus the panel pick their favourite Irish Times pieces of the week:

• What's in and what's out of the new CSO consumer basket.

• Replacing Ireland's small embassy building in Washington 

• And has Trump awoken Europe's sleeping beast?

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