Ministers make case for billions to create jobs

Complex plans to raise billions of euro to fund projects and create jobs have been outlined to the European Investment Bank and European Commission.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin hope to overcome the problems of having no money in the coffers and broke banks.

They went with a list of public-private partnership projects and schemes to get around the constraints imposed on the country by the austerity programme.