For Jack Chambers, there have been a lot of firsts lately. He’s facing into his first budget as finance minister. On Wednesday, a day after the Apple tax ruling (another big day in his tenure as finance minister) he sat down for his first Autumn Gathering, the annual think-in held by start-up representative group Scale Ireland in the crunch weeks before the budget. It was Chambers’ first time publicly hearing the wish list of Ireland’s indigenous tech sector. His predecessors Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath have all addressed this cohort before and heard their requests and grievances, namely around tax…

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