Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party)
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35. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the most recent meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, ECOFIN, with particular reference to the agreement between the European Union and Greece. [13103/15]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Greece was not on the agenda for the most recent meeting of Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) on 10 March. That meeting focused inter alia on implementing Europe's banking union as well as the European Fund for Strategic Investments.

Greece was discussed at the Eurogroup meeting of 9th March.  The discussion focused on procedural issues relating to the ongoing negotiations to conclude the fifth review of the Greek programme.

However, en marge of the European Council on 19-20 March, a meeting took place between Prime Minister Tsipras, the Presidents of the European Council, Commission, ECB and Eurogroup, and the leaders of Germany and France to advance progress on the list of reforms that will need to be implemented to ensure drawdown of the remaining tranche of the funds.

Work is progress in regard to this list of reforms.