Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are Eurogroup and ECOFIN meetings in Bratislava this Friday and Saturday. I will be attending there tomorrow evening. I know it will be a topic of conversation but I doubt it will be an agenda item. I am sure I will get much advice on it, especially from the smaller countries.

The position on the spend is that if this money were available, it would be regarded as windfall. The fiscal rules state one cannot spend it for ongoing expenditure.

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