Next month Fianna Fáil’s Micheal Martin will hand over the office of Taoiseach to Fine Gael’s Leo Varadkar.
The switch will necessitate a big reshuffle of cabinet positions. Or will it?
Our political team has the latest Leinster House chat about how extensive the December reshuffle will be and which positions might be in the mix.
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