As Paschal Donohoe’s time as Minister for Finance ends, it makes sense to look back on his tenure in that great office of state. I’m not going to start where most people will, with Donohoe taking over as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in 2016, leading one-half of the Treasury department of the state, the spending bit, after an apprenticeship in other ministries. Or with his initial appointment as both Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure in 2017 Instead, I’m going to start in the middle of 2020, as he formally assumed his second term the office he…
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