Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 December 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2023: Inland Fisheries Ireland
Special Report No. 118 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Governance, internal control and value for money issues in Inland Fisheries Ireland
2:00 am
Mr. Barry Fox:
The team we are talking about is a very high-performing team. In fact, they probably generate more prosecutions than most of the districts in the country. They had a very low staff base at the time and to operate these RIBs safely and within our SOP, they require four staff available for a boat to go to sea.
Yes, it is a low number but there are reasons for that. They would have been deployed to other areas or used other technology or equipment to do that coastal work at the time.
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