Why are journalists becoming advisors to Ministers?

Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Elham Fakhro.

Dr. Kevin Cunningham politics lecturer at TU Dublin and Pollster with Ireland Thinks & Hugh O'Connell, Political Editor of the Sunday Times.

Liz Carolyn from thebriefing.ie.

Emiritus Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Bob Schmuhl & Republican Pollster, Political Consultant and President of North Star Opinion Research in Virginia, Whit Ayres.

Fianna Fáil TD Jim O'Callaghan & Denmark-based Journalist, Eoin O'Sullivan.

Our reporter Gavin O'Callaghan with Colm Newport of the RNLI in Howth.

Barry Andrews from Fianna Fáil Lynn Boylan from Sinn Féin Niall Boylan from Independent Ireland Sinéad Gibney from Social Democrats Aodhán Ó Ríordáin from the Labour Party

Our Political Correspondent, Paul Cunningham.

Our Reporter Gavin O'Callaghan Professor of Politics at Dublin City University, Gary Murphy Fionnán Sheahan, Ireland Editor of the Irish Independent.

Our Correspondent, Maggie Doyle.