Richard Bruton

I suppose, when the, the country was on the rocks, uh, in 2011.

And I must say, the, I toured the country then with, uh, Richard Bruton, with the, the creation of jobs and whatever else, so that, uh, uh, the country was, uh...

So when you take the, uh, it's quite extraordinary how well the economy, when you look back retrospectively, uh, in the last, uh, 15 years, the transformation of the Irish economy is quite extraordinary, that you have 2.7 million people working, full employment practically.

And I think that, uh, and that the government of the day have $8.5 billion that the surplus, surpluses in the, in the, in the economy, which is a very well-funded economy.

Mm.

I mean, we were, we embraced big, big- Jobs announcement, we embraced, you know, at the time we had-- we, uh, we'd one day we had a jobs announcement with Enda Kenny and Richard Bruton, the min- the min- the Taoiseach and the Minister for Enterprise and Employment.

That never happens.

But that created pizzazz.