Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland
9:30 am
Ms R?is?n Bradley:
Again, we have spent a lot of time looking at what is the best way to meet the needs of the operations, in line with what type of vehicles are needed. Because we have what we consider a high season between March and September-October, which is when we bring in our seasonal staff, we have a lot more staff in the operations section of the organisation. Researchers are now out doing fieldwork and then other staff, such as people in my team, might need to travel around the country. We use pool cars. If somebody needed a vehicle to perform a duty, if they are in an operational team there would be a number of vehicles managed by the inspector locally. If they are in research, there are usually older vehicles that they use or we would lease vehicles. A lot of times they are externally funded through the research funds that they would be carrying out work for.