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
Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
That external investigation, where the findings were given to the board of the IFI, speaks wonders to me. It showcases the culture within the IFI that it has not brought that to Mr. Fox's attention and that it is not following up on an external investigation commissioned by the former Minister.
Those results and findings would have been given to Mr. Fox by the new Minister. The fact of the matter is that those findings are now on the desk of the Garda Commissioner. At the same time, the ex-CEO resigned as soon as those findings were given. I will not read between the lines because I do not want to make any allegations, but I am certain - I would have expected an answer on this today - that within those findings, there is evidence of this staff member being absolutely thrown under the bus by the IFI.
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