Simon Harris is facing his first big test. Can he shake off the TikTok Tánaiste image?
New Minister for Finance and his colleague Jack Chambers will need to channel a bit of Ray MacSharry
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Harris accuses Sinn Féin of ‘taking big money from big American building companies’
While landlords end 35% more tenancies this year, Tánaiste Simon Harris called Pearse Doherty a ‘hypocrite’ in heated Dáil clashes over rising rents
Harris takes the purse strings just as Ireland’s golden economic decade may be ending
This week’s Ifac report outlines challenges facing the Irish economy, and the few options facing Simon Harris
Budget watchdog hands Harris his first headache
Without plans or forecasts, Coalition already committed to big tax package in 2027
Government has ‘no intention of becoming a landlord’ for asylum seekers, says Simon Harris
Simon Harris has said it ‘defies common sense’ to allow working asylum seekers to get free accommodation
Coalition warned about fiscally ‘flying blind’
Government was supposed to update medium-term expenditure plan last summer but still hasn’t done so
Coalition ‘budgeting like there’s no tomorrow’, warns fiscal watchdog
Ireland is ‘flying blind’ without the medium-term spending plan promised in programme for government
Social media pressure and fake videos undermining democracy, Taoiseach says
Challenges particularly difficult for women, Taoiseach says, after Gráinne Seoige described election regret
What next for Fine Gael and the Coalition after Paschal Donohoe?
Senior party figures lament former minister’s departure but back Simon Harris as natural fit for role
Fine Gael’s ‘new generation’ who quit: ‘Many TDs don’t see it as a career any more’
The party’s brightest stars of the 2000s walked away from politics by the age of 51
As economic storm clouds gather, Simon Harris has big decisions to make
Growth is slowing and the stock market is wobbling - the new Minister for Finance could have a lot on his plate
Hardly a dry seat in the house as Paschal Donohoe makes his exit
Outgoing minister for finance effusive in his praise for party leader and ministerial successor Simon Harris at Fine Gael gathering
Simon Harris’s short time at Foreign Affairs: building bridges, less foreign travel - and a lot of press releases
‘On trade he’d get a better mark than on the pure foreign policy side of things’
Harris yet to prove he’s serious about Finance role
Incoming Minister for Finance needs to focus on getting on top of his brief, not putting out nonsensical press releases signifying activity over real action
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