Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 April 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland
9:30 am
Mr. Barry Fox:
As I alluded to earlier, many of the cases we have had to withdraw are fisheries protection cases. There are a small number of environmental cases. Where there is habitat damage, if an award is not made in court, we will take the money from our operations development fund and do the work to reinstate that habitat ourselves.
With regard to a fish kill, the unfortunate thing is that there is generally no damage to the habitat itself. It is just an input of deleterious matter that will kill the fish in a specific area. They will recruit back into that area over time. In general, we know every stock in those areas. Natural recruitment into those areas will occur over time.
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