The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe TD, has today (Thursday) published ‘Taking Stock: The Fiscal Response to Covid-19’, which outlines the totality of the Irish Government’s budgetary response to the pandemic. The Government has responded to pandemic-induced crisis in an unprecedented and extraordinary way. Making use of the three avenues available— direct public expenditure, the taxation system and ‘below the line’ supports such as credit guarantees — the total value of supports for both this year and next amounts to just under €38 billion, or 18½ per cent of national income (GNI*).