Ivan was delighted to be joined on this evening's edition of the Hard Shoulder by Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Fine Gael TD for Dublin Central.

The last time they spoke was around the announcement of Budget 2020.

In that time we’ve had the National Broadband plan signed, we’ve had KBC apologize over some very unfortunate comments from their man in charge, and confidence and supply appears to be on its last legs.

And that’s before we even mention the word 'Brexit'.