Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance

10:30 am

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The idea of a financial transactions tax has been part of political debate for quite some time. The first time I heard it debated in the Houses of the Oireachtas was on the back of the Tobin report, which was very fashionable 12 or 15 years ago.