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:
I will explain those. Four of the settlements are for the same thing. Basically, we did a whole big review a couple of years ago where we were looking at our fleet. There were some old arrangements in place where people had vehicles that were not needed for operational reasons. Maybe at some stage in the past they were, but we did not believe there was a reason for them to have an assigned vehicle. If they needed a vehicle for work, they could use a pool car. However, when I went back and looked at how long they had the vehicle for, in some cases they had it for more than 20 years, so I had to buy those out.
What I always try to do in addressing issues like that is to have a once-off scenario that-----