{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6155db9059a3fa00137f30a9/65cf76e23bf1ce0016ee5573?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Was Sinn Féin's licence fee amnesty proposal a misstep?","description":"<p>Jack Horgan-Jones and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to discuss the week in politics:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>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?&nbsp;And is is sustainable for prominent ex-RTÉ figures like Dee Forbes, Rory Coveney and Breda O'Keeffe to avoid appearing at the committee? </li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The spiralling cost of the National Children's Hospital means renewed analysis of the Government's ability to plan and deliver big projects.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>And as the Social Democrats get ready for their&nbsp;conference this weekend, the panel takes stock of the party's fortunes.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Plus the panel pick their favourite Irish Times pieces of the week:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>What's in and what's out of the new CSO consumer basket.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Replacing Ireland's small embassy building in Washington&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>And has Trump awoken Europe's sleeping beast?</li></ul>","author_name":"The Irish Times"}