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
Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)
The annual report states that in June 2023 there was illegal net fishing in the River Boyne Estuary at Baltray. Somebody was caught and fined for that. Have there been more instances of illegal net fishing going on in the river since then? Could Mr. Fox briefly comment on whether he sees a time when licensed draft net fishermen will be allowed to operate on the river or other rivers that they traditionally fished, or are those days gone?
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