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)
Two pieces from the code of conduct for IFI staff state that it is the policy of the IFI to comply with all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements governing its operations. If anyone other than the staff member is involved in a road traffic accident, they must show their insurance certificate to local gardaí within 24 hours. The IFI was made aware on 16 November 2021 that the insurance documentation that he provided within that 24-hour period was inaccurate and the IFI failed to tell him and to tell An Garda Síochána. The board is now refuting that and does not have a leg to stand on. An external investigation took place from former Minister Eamon Ryan's office. The external investigation basically said that the IFI knowingly allowed this to happen. It did, because on 16 November, three months after the crash, it officially knew and still failed to tell An Garda Síochána or the employee.
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