Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance

6:00 pm

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

I briefed it on that meeting on the basis of the agenda that was agreed up to yesterday, even though some items have fallen off of it. The only way that the ECOFIN Council will discuss Greece is in terms of a report by the president of the Eurogroup, which he will provide at the start of the meeting. He will report on what happened at the Eurogroup meeting. It is the Eurogroup that will discuss Greece. The president of the Eurogroup, Mr. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance Minister, will report to ECOFIN at the start of its meeting, but it is not an agenda item. I have no problem with Deputy Fleming discussing Greece now. I do not have much light to cast on the situation. I am doing what the committee requested me to do.

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