Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 July 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland

9:30 am

Mr. Francis O'Donnell:

I have paid back the expenses from the start date of the section 18 members. I cannot speak for them because they are not here today but my conversation, hold on, my conversation with them was, what happened under a previous board happened under a previous board. The previous chairperson signed off on my expenses, but from 14 February, which was their starting date. Anything that I had claimed after that period I have paid it back. That is what I was asked to do, Deputy. That is what the board asked me to do. They are my employers and I have done that. There is full transparency here.