Seán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The issue here is that the board has been dissolved but the individuals and management within Inland Fisheries Ireland, who have a very close working relationship, as they must, with the Minister’s departmental officials, are all there. Indeed, the Minister’s Department is investigating allegations in respect of Inland Fisheries Ireland even though it has a very close relationship with it. These are my concerns in this. The easiest way out of this was to have a fully independent senior counsel to investigate the whole issue, or to have appointed members to the board to allow them to carry out their duties and the investigations they were pursuing and that they would have acted within their legislative remit.