Aoife Moore: Stimulus is welcome but has it been spent the right way?

Taoiseach Micheál Martin leaving the Cabinet Meeting in Dublin Castle. He announced a €7bn spend to revitalise the economy. Photo: Stephen Collins

They said it couldn't be done and, yet, here we are.

Ireland is in the midst of a rent freeze, an eviction ban, two separate welfare payments accommodating those who had been left with nothing or risked such a situation, a single-tier health system and a new rent subsidy.