Newstalk Breakfast

Plans to give teenagers €100 culture voucher to spend on arts, cultural and music venues are due to be unveiled in next months budget
Peter Cleere, Fianna Fail TD for Carlow-Kilkenny has been calling for the voucher to come into effect.

Social Pro­tec­tion Min­is­ter Dara Calleary will bring a review of the hot school meals to cab­inet today along with plans for a num­ber of changes.
It follows new research that shows that a fifth of all hot school meals. We get reaction to this with Sarah Keogh, Dietician at Eatwell.ie.

The cost of home-heating oil has soared by as much as 75pc in the last year. This is raising fears among industry experts such as Fuel for Ireland that older people will ration their heating this winter.
These fears come as the Government is considering exempting home heating oil from future carbon tax increases. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Roderic O’Gorman, Leader of the Green Party.

“A new survey shows a clear and urgent public demand for greater use of CCTV to help tackle crime”. This is according to Fine Gael TD for Dublin Bay South James Geoghegan who spoke to Jonathan this morning.

We take a closer look at some of the stories you may have missed in the news this morning. Joining Anton this morning was Ralph Riegel, Southern Correspondent for the Irish Independent.