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

5:20 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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If the Vice Chairman would allow me to use up the time in the way I choose, I am asking why, if the theme of the Irish Presidency is jobs and growth, the Minister does not put it to European finance ministers that we need to be more specific on targets for generating growth and employment across Europe in the same way as they are specific about imposing targets for deficit and debt reduction?