Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Pre-ECOFIN Briefing: Minister for Finance

8:50 pm

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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No, it has not. When Ireland held the Presidency last year, I put this matter on the agenda of the first ECOFIN meeting that I chaired so as to allow those who wanted to do so to move ahead and try to find agreement under the enhanced co-operation rules. I could have kept it off the agenda, as I had control for six months.