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

Photo of Albert DolanAlbert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

Okay. Mr. Fox might come back to me in writing because I do not think IFI can say it will review it and then not reclaim the money. I am putting it to him now that that money should be recouped, purely out of principal, because at the end of the day there are good travel allowances and good subsistence in place for people to be supported, and there are work vehicles and everything. However, we cannot allow somebody to abuse it - we all have knowledge of the abuse - and then let them away with it. We need that bit of accountability from IFI. That is a way for IFI as well to show this committee it is serious about this and that it wants to get it resolved. Were any disciplinary or governance processes undertaken in response to that behaviour?

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