Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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134. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the European Commission has brought recommendations for actions under the Excessive Deficit Procedure to the European Council; the way Ireland voted in each instance and if there was no vote if Ireland objected in any way to any of the recommendations. [27106/13]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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149. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the European Commission has brought recommendations for actions under the Excessive Deficit Procedure to ECOFIN; the way Ireland voted in each instance; and if there was no vote, if Ireland objected in any way to any of the recommendations. [27188/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 134 and 149 together.

All European Commission recommendations to Council relating to implementation of the Excessive Deficit Procedure can be found at the following link: .

The Commission's recommendations are discussed at Council. Typically decisions are reached by consensus rather than by formal vote.