SPEAKING of Richard Bruton, his name has hardly been out of the news in recent months as one major jobs announcement followed another.

Piffling little 200 job projects have become commonplace as there has been a succession of mega announcements such as IBM's 2,850 jobs for west Dublin and Boston Scientific's 1,000 jobs for Galway. Hardly a low key ministry, then. But cut to a quiz on Pat Kenny's RTE radio show this week, when a listener, questioned on who was Minister for Enterprise and Employment, confidently responded "Brendan Howlin".

Oh, dear!