Noonan rejects claims made by German publication

The Finance Minister has rejected claims made about him in a German publication.

Der Spiegel has claimed that Michael Noonan and his Portuguese counterpart attacked Greece at last week's eurozone meeting for "stoking up the fire" again.

But in the Dáil this afternoon, the Finance Minister says the opposite is in fact true:

"The comments attributed to me in Der Spiegel are totally and completely untrue, and after the meeting, after my contribution, the Greek Finance Minister came up and thanked me personally for my support in the course of the meeting".