Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 May 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres
9:30 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
Perhaps, but it has a limited fund and things to do with it. It also uses a proportion of its sponsorship money and private income on welfare. Every time we have a governance meeting with GRI - such meetings take place a couple of times a year - we raise welfare issues.
They are putting a lot of effort into welfare initiatives. Again, it is one of these contested sectors. This is difficult and the sector is coming from a background where it had great difficulties a few years ago. We all know that. They are taking it seriously.
On the question of the IHRB CEO, as I understand it, that was done in September 2021. I certainly did not know anything about it. It was brought to my attention. The defence from IHRB is essentially that this top-up in the pension fund did not involve public money but its own resources, but it is all a bit circular.
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