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Full coverage: Paschal Donohoe

Helping the hospitality sector to help itself: Rewinding the week that was

The hospitality sector says the issue is about margin, not customers. But with the government's decision not to reduce the Vat rate for the besieged sector, what other options are on the menu?

Ian Kehoe
20th Oct, 2024 - 5 min read

“Nothing is certain in politics”: Paschal Donohoe on economic complacency, the Dublin Airport cap, and Sinn Féin

Before an audience of investors and businesspeople, the minister laid out his vision for the Irish economy and assessed the UK's new FDI-friendly policies.

Ian Kehoe
16th Oct, 2024 - 10 min read

When the fiscal cycle meets the electoral cycle: Rewinding the week that was

We have navigated so many unprecedented crises in recent years that both words are losing meaning. But Budget 2025 was not set against Brexit, Covid or spiralling inflation. It was framed against an upcoming election.

Ian Kehoe
6th Oct, 2024 - 5 min read

“If we had announced where all those billions are going, you’d accuse us of electioneering”

Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe delivered a surplus budget days before chairing a meeting of Eurogroup nations plagued by deficits. He responds to critics and defends a longer-term approach to complex funding needs.

Thomas Hubert
5th Oct, 2024 - 5 min read

Colm McCarthy: Neither Chambers nor Donohoe felt able to go beyond boilerplate rhetoric about prudence

Budgetary decisions can squander more than money. They can damage the credibility of economic management and undermine the capacity to make better decisions in the future. This is particularly true of capital projects.

Colm McCarthy
3rd Oct, 2024 - 6 min read

Ian Kehoe on Budget 2025: A paradox of caution, incrementalism and good old-fashioned electoral politics

The most striking aspects of Budget 2025 are the amount of money allocated, spent, promised, and deployed, and the fact that the Government has left a sum equivalent to the health budget in reserve.

Ian Kehoe
1st Oct, 2024 - 7 min read

Paschal, populism, and Ireland’s next big idea: Rewinding the week that was

The last five years have been consumed by change. That change will only accelerate going forward. To be ready, Ireland needs to pick its economic strategy for the decades ahead. Paschal Donohoe has a view on what we should choose.

Ian Kehoe
22nd Sep, 2024 - 5 min read

“The tide of division is building. And the causes of it are so many”

With Budget 2025 imminent, the minister for public expenditure and reform talks about his economic priorities, countering the rise of the far right, and what Ireland’s economy will look like in a decade.

Ian Kehoe
21st Sep, 2024 - 18 min read

Budget rules, spending watchdogs, and peak populism: Rewinding the week that was 

There was a time when rows between governments and their economic advisers on inflation and spending unfolded in oak-lined boardrooms. Now, they are taking place on social media.

Ian Kehoe
14th Jul, 2024 - 6 min read

Thomas Hubert: Personal tax breaks and health service demands mean Budget 2025 is all but decided

In its last budget before an election, the Government’s bet is that voters want to pay less income tax and access a better health service. Other demands will have to wait.

Thomas Hubert
11th Jul, 2024 - 6 min read
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