Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance

5:10 pm

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I have laid out what we are doing. We have advocated additional measures and succeeded in securing them. A greater concentration on growing the economies of European countries is needed and this requirement must be reflected in domestic and European policies. If, however, the Deputy believes this will be a substitute for the corrective measures that are being taken, he is wrong. The model has been tried.