Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 April 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland
9:30 am
Ms Suzanne Campion:
There was none. There was an allocation to IFI. In all cases, the dormant accounts fund is channelled through to State agencies. ACI is not a State agency, so there may be a misunderstanding there. I have the figures for the approved allocation and the disbursement. In 2019, €393,000 was awarded and €372,000 was drawn down. In 2020, €580,000 was awarded and €551,000 was drawn down. In 2021, €606,000 was awarded and €256,000 was drawn down. IFI was audited across the various elements and repaid close on €28,000 in respect of three different amounts of funding. The audit said we should pay back a proportion but because the programme was closing in advance of the audit coming out, we chose to pay back the whole lot in order that there would be no question over it. The audit report stated that, in all instances, it was possible to make a clear link to the target groups.
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