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

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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We will know tomorrow what position different countries will take on this issue. What the Deputy is doing is unhelpful. He made a very emotive intervention at the start, talking about stabbing people in the back. If he thinks that will help anyone in Greece, it will not.

That does not help anyone in Greece. This is a sensitive issue, and the Deputy should hold his cool while we see how it works out.