It’s every Finance Minister’s nightmare, having to place the economy into deep freeze and paying millions of people to simply stay at home. The economy experiences dual inflation and oil shocks as well as the repercussions of a war on the European continent. All the issues for the Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe.
Gavin McLaughlin and Joe spoke to the Minister in the first of Newstalk Business summer special interviews and began by asking which was more challenging: the shock of sudden lockdowns or dealing with the crippling inflation we have at the moment?
