Mary Henry (Independent)

Is this the Minister of State's reward for having so intelligently and sensitively brought through this House the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Bill at very short notice? Did he draw the short straw or did the Government decide, on the basis that he got through that one so well, that it would put him in the firing line once again? I gather on that occasion he had about a quarter of an hour's notice to review the brief on which he was complimented both inside and outside the House on how well he did. Is it his reward that he must face our wrath?