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Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Newstalk Breakfast brings you all the news you need to set you up for the day – from politics, business, sport, entertainment and everything in between. Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly have all the stories that matter, every weekday from 7-9AM. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast Highlights on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

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Schools’ admission policies placing barriers to children with autism

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Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

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Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Calls to address the “serious vulnerability” of Ireland’s narrow tax base

Officials at the Department of Finance have warned the Minister for Finance that major structural changes to the tax system will be required to support growing spending pressures on the state and to address the “serious vulnerability” of Ireland’s narrow tax base. To discuss further Shane spoke to Seamus Coffey, Chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Lecturer in Economics in UCC.