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The Hard Shoulder

The Hard Shoulder 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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"It's an outlandish salary and it shows how skewed the governments priorities really are"

Now the Cabinet are expected to appoint Robert Watt to the job of Secretary General of the Department of Health on a permanent basis within the next fortnight. He had been doing the job on a temporary basis for a number of months. However this permanent appointment has come in for a lot of criticism. But should the new Secretary General of the Department of Health be getting an €81,000 payrise? Or do we have to pay these high salaries to attract the best candidates for these types of jobs. Our reporter Barry Whyte has been getting reaction from the general public and student nurses....