Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I have had no discussions with European leaders on fiscal powers. There have been quite a number of meetings and contacts between Ministers for Finance and officials dealing with the technicalities of the decisions made in July. They were signed off on recently at official level and confirmed by the ECOFIN Ministers. The answer to the Deputy's question is that I have had no discussions about the centralisation of fiscal powers.

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