Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

If the Deputy wishes, we can have a specific addition next week on the Council meeting. I assume it will be discussing matters such as Libya, Syria and the fall-out from other issues such as the Schengen agreement, migration and so on. The Minister for Finance will report in due course on the outcome of the Ministers' meeting in Luxembourg, which is well publicised.

Therefore, it is not a case of not wanting to give this time but rather that we have so many debates about the debt crisis and about the economic situation, about Europe's position, about the fact Ireland is in a very different set of circumstances than Greece, and how, as the Minister set out to go to Luxembourg we would see that the Ministers would protect countries like Ireland who are in very different circumstances from Greece.

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