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. Some €20,000 of the dormant accounts funding that was being progressed at that stage was for the marketing and development of packs for new entrants to angling. The sum of €50,000 was split between the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI, and the Angling Council of Ireland. The National Coarse Fishing Federation took up the funding of approximately €19,000 and the Angling Council of Ireland did not. It is on record at the previous hearing of the Committee of Public Accounts. A statement was made that it was committed to one particular organisation and the assistant secretary at the time confirmed that no explicit agreement was in place with that organisation.
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