Elaine Loughlin: Sinn Féin needs Paschal to survive too — nobody wants a snap election

Party badly calculated the numbers back in 2020 and cannot afford to make the same mistake again

While demanding scalps may be a favourite opposition pastime, Sinn Féin needs Paschal Donohoe to survive just as much as the Government does.

Unlike junior ministers Damien English and Robert Troy who were forced to resign over their declarations, Donohoe, who presided over the State's finances for five years before recently returning to Public Expenditure is too big to fall, as one Sinn Féin TD put it and his resignation would ultimately mean a snap general election.