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:

That is okay but, as the chief of the organisation, I have to stand up for IFI today and say that we absolutely accept the fact that we have governance issues.

Those issues are on the table now, we are discussing them and a review will be undertaken by the board. There will be a new board in September. We are extremely cognisant of what has happened. However, it should not mean that I as leader and the members of the executive team would not make our case. What we do is a vocation. I am fully committed to expanding IFI.