Jack Horgan-Jones

Sinn Féin countered that.

the coalition's package had not gone far enough.

And I suspect that will be their line of attack.

They will say the same again.

Look, you've gone a certain distance, but you haven't gone as far as we wanted.

They want more action on the carbon tax, even though the government has said

against expectations, gone and paused the implementation of carbon tax increases that have been due to kick in next month.

I suspect that that won't be far enough for any of the opposition and any voting against the package of measures that might take place from Sinn Féin or others.

Look, I think that's very much a kind of subordinate point, one that will be kind of battled over within the political classes as they seek to score points against each other.

But I don't think it'll be the main story.

The main story is, as we've talked about,

already today the vulnerability of the government and now it's lending its massive exchequer intervention over the weekend.

Yeah, and who knew what and when is a category of story that only comes out when governments are really pegged to the pin of their collar defending themselves.

It suggests when there's a who knew what and when story that there is blame to be assigned somewhere and that people are trying to shift or at least avoid a portion of that blame landing on their own shoulders.

And we see that playing out

in the kind of contradictory or at least confusing stories about the information being passed from the Department of Justice and the Minister of Justice, Jim O'Callaghan, over his announcement that the Defence Forces would be called out on Thursday morning, exactly who knew what and when on Wednesday and who was part of that decision-making process, I think belies that deeper question over, you know, cohesion, harmony, and indeed it suggests perhaps some unresolved tensions within the coalition itself in the aftermath of this.