In any other year, Paschal Donohoe would have waited until the annual budget in October before unveiling a €5.1 billion plan to help both save and stimulate the economy. However, this is no ordinary year.  Instead, as Covid-19 causes devastation to both the health system and the wider economy, the minister for finance has spent the past number of weeks working with his new government colleagues to finalise a package of measures aimed at saving companies, jobs and livelihoods. Announced yesterday, the centrepiece of the plan is the expansion and repurposing of the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme, rechristened as the…

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