Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

ECOFIN does its business in an ordered fashion. It has a defined agenda for its meetings. I was asked to discuss the ECOFIN meeting on Friday and the agenda items. The question raised by Deputy Doherty is not an agenda item for Friday's meeting. I can see the Deputy's point of view, but if we are to have meetings every quarter along these lines, I do not think it would be fruitful that they would turn into a general trawl of Government policy on items that are not on the ECOFIN agenda.