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:
Yes. It was a wood treatment facility on the banks of the Aughrim river. I actually visited that fish kill as the head of operations at the time. That is a perfect example of where the IFI cannot prosecute. We were pretty certain of where the discharge came from, because white diffuse came down through the river bank and because it was highly toxic, it killed a significant amount of fish in a stretch. On further investigation with the EPA, the facility owners confirmed they had a discharge from that location in breach of their EPA licence. The EPA took the prosecution with the support of the IFI.
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