Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland
9:30 am
Ms Suzanne Campion:
The Cathaoirleach needs to understand this. Sorry if I am labouring it. On the announcement of the awards, they were given the amount of offer. They began all their work like everybody else. IFI administration sent out the bank details with the instruction to please fill out the form, as this would be necessary for payment of money. Maugherow came back and said sorry, it did not have a bank account. At that stage, in hindsight we should have said "No, we are not giving it to you". Actually we were fortunate, in that the Angling Council of Ireland, which is the only Irish Sports Council-funded national governing body, NGB, for angling, agreed to do the procurement for Maugherow and then buy-----
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