Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion
5:00 pm
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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I understand that. I am making the simple point that the recommendation to do this is a very big call to make because we are in the middle of a housing crisis, a homelessness crisis and a child poverty crisis and we are still recovering. Therefore, all I am saying is that before Mr. Martínez Mongay comes to Ireland and states that we should potentially use several billion euro to pay down the debt, he should know whether any other country is doing so.