Joe McHugh (Fine Gael)

I welcome the Minister, Deputy Mary Coughlan, to her new position and congratulate her as a fellow Donegal person. I wish her well and hope she will have some form of inspiration that will help her through the difficult task ahead of her. I also welcome the other two Ministers of State who are here this evening. On a point of clarification, Deputy Michael Noonan, the former leader of Fine Gael, was not the Minister for Finance in 1997—