document: Europe rescue fund says ready to help Portugal - paper * EFSF ready to help Portugal if needed , president says * Opposed to private funds backing Irish banking sector PARIS , April 2 -LRB- Reuters -RRB- - The European Financial Stability Facility -LRB- EFSF -RRB- rescue fund is ready to help Portugal if needed , Klaus Regling , the fund 's president told La Tribune in an interview published online on Saturday . Portugal , whose prime minister resigned after failing to get a new austerity package approved by parliament , is regarded as the next country which could need external financial help after Greece and Ireland . '' `` Portugal is living an internal political feud . We will see if they ask for help or not . If they do , we are ready , '' '' Regling told La Tribune . Meanwhile , Ireland said on Thursday it needed an extra 24 billion euros to recapitalise its banking system and draw a line under a legacy of reckless spending that has forced it into an EU-IMF bailout . Regarding Ireland , Regling said the 35 billion euros earmarked as part of the programme negotiated in 2010 to help the country 's banking sector , should be sufficient . '' `` The money is there , as long as we stay within these limits , the programme is sustainable , '' '' Regling said . Regling said he was opposed to having private lenders take part in Ireland 's debt restructuring . '' `` We are going through a particularly difficult period , especially for three countries Greece , Ireland and Portugal . But if you take the euro zone as a whole , we have passed a certain mark ... The euro as such is no longer being put into question . '' ''
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