Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance

10:00 am

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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There was general political agreement on the separation of sovereign and banking debt at the end of the Lithuanian Presidency. It is a matter for co-decision with the Parliament. It is before the Parliament at present. It is important to Ireland because we have spoken much about separating sovereign and banking debt. When the general political agreement was arrived at, the Deputy will recall a fund into which each participating country-----