We live in a world of overlapping, interacting crises. There is a word for it: polycrisis. And it is this perpetual state of polycrisis that has defined Budget 2023 – and the previous two budgets before. Two years ago, after a decade shadowing budgets from the opposition benches, Michael McGrath co-authored an unprecedented €17.75 billion budgetary package. The budget was delivered against the backdrop of a global pandemic and was designed to sustain employment during widespread economic upheaval. It should have been a generational budget in terms of its scale and scope. However, the crises have kept coming. Earlier this…

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