Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance
6:30 pm
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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No. There are two items there about budgets. It will review the 2014 budget. The way it normally works is that the creditor nations are critical and the expenditure nations are seeking expanded budgets. There is qualified majority voting; there will not be unanimity. Certain countries, which one can predict, will have a problem with overspending, while other countries, which one can predict as well, will have plans for additional expenditure.