Arts funding, bin charges fiasco, 8th Amendment
"Everything you do that you don't have to do" is how Brian Eno sums up art in all its guises. The arts appears to be low on the government's list of things they have to do at the moment, something that Fianna Fáil TD for Cavan-Monaghan Niamh Smyth wants to address with a motion up for debate in the Dáil today. She, along with Deputy Political Editor Pat Leahy, Parliamentary Correspondent Michael O'Regan and regular host Hugh Linehan discuss the government's reluctance to invest in the arts along with the bin charges debacle and the divisive nature of the Eight Amendment.