Simon Harris knows a lot about the machinery of government. He has been around it long enough and has served as a minister through Covid, the energy crisis and some of the most difficult periods of the past decade. But being minister for finance puts him at the centre of the budget process in a way his previous roles did not. He has also, as Fine Gael leader, been Taoiseach, leading the Government itself. This time, however, for Budget 2027, he was the minister for finance, the co-author of the budget along with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform,…

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