Noonan to explore access to cheap loans with troika

Access to a low-interest credit line will be explored by Finance Minister Michael Noonan in discussions with the troika that has just begun its latest, and second last, inspection of the country’s bailout programme.

The country’s exit strategy will be top of the agenda for Mr Noonan when he meets the EU/IMF/ECB officials in Dublin for a 10-day visit — its 11th inspection of the programme.

Mr Noonan, in Brussels for a finance ministers’ meeting, said: “We will have no difficulty fulfilling the conditions laid down and now I would like to engage on the exit strategy for when we go back into the market in a continuous way”.