Budget 2018 quirks: Increased spending on 100-year-olds
Elsewhere, Department of Health gets big increase for public inquiries and legal fees
Minister for Pucblic Expenditure Paschal Donohoe in his office at the Department of Finance, Dublin. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons / THE IRISH TIMES
When Paschal Donohoe was appointed Minister for Public Expenditure last year, he likely never expected to find himself mulling over the number of 99-year-old citizens in the State when sitting down to do his budgetary sums.