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:
Salmon stocks have been in dramatic decline since the 1970s. IFI is doing everything it can to control the freshwater environment. There is a lot more to be done. There is a lot of restoration work to be done at scale in the country. There is a lot more work to be done with other agencies on trying to deal with other pressures that are on salmon numbers and a number of other fish species. The big issue, without question, is water quality. That is a matter on which we have to work with other organisations.
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