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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Public private partnerships are off balance sheet. As the Italians began to negotiate flexibility in the expenditure ceilings under the new European fiscal rules, exemptions were made for essential infrastructure for countries the growth potential of which had not been realised.