Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have no sense of that, particularly in the last year and a half. We need to scale up IFI, which needs to be bigger. Being larger, it can and should have a role in habitat protection. We are about to initiate a significant phase 2 of a land use review and IFI has a critical role in that. A review of land use has to look at what is happening in our rivers and apply a river basin management system approach to that. If I have a concern, it is that IFI needs additional resources. It was hard to deploy those in the last two years because there were clear difficulties between the board and management. It is hard to scale up an organisation when that is happening. IFI needs to be bigger, if anything, to deliver on the important job it has in protecting our environment.