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The Hard Shoulder Highlights

The Hard Shoulder Highlights with Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk. Join Kieran every weekday afternoon from 4-7pm for a round-up of the day’s events, interviews with the people at the centre of the stories – and a bit of craic along the way. Listen and subscribe to The Hard Shoulder on Apple Podcasts, Google 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 adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

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Should direct provision be abolished or reformed?

The Direct Provision system will be ended within the lifetime of the next government according to the prospective Programme for Government. All this week here on the Hard Shoulder, we are taking individual items from the potential Programme for Government between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens, and discussing them. To discuss the issue of direct provision, Ivan was joined on Wednesday's edition of the Hard Shoulder by Adrian Shanagher, owner of the Grand Hotel in Wicklow Town, which is a direct provision centre, and Aodhan O’Riordain, Labour TD for Dublin Bay North.