In the 1980s, I thought it would be a major achievement if a Government could achieve current budget balance. It was only from the mid-1990s onwards that Senator Mansergh and I, when working on the Fianna Fáil manifesto, began to realise that we might achieve an overall Exchequer balance. We never dreamed that would occur in the 1970s or 1980s. I would have seen it as a major achievement if a Government got back to a current budget balance. However, we achieved an overall Exchequer balance and a surplus. I do not know how this relates to the matter under discussion, but I wanted to use the opportunity, while within the hallowed walls of this House, to put this on the record.