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

I will tell the Deputy my position, which I outlined to his colleagues earlier. I am going to a meeting tomorrow. I outlined to him our red lines, which are very limited, but I want to hear the Greek proposal. Since I read the election manifesto of the party that is now in power in Greece, there has been no mention by the Greek Prime Minister or Finance Minister, or anybody else in the Administration, of a debt conference. The only place I saw it mentioned was in the party's election manifesto. They have not mentioned a debt conference in any of their bilaterals as reported in the international press or in my briefing notes. Like other programme countries, they are quite prepared to use the Eurogroup and ECOFIN as the forum for their negotiations. I am not going to put a debt conference on the table when the Greeks have not done so.