Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 April 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland

9:30 am

Mr. Philip Nugent:

I will go first, if that is okay. I thank the Deputy. It always existed but, as a result of some of the issues that we are discussing today and were discussed in the July meeting, the formal relationship continued but an informal relationship or a series of informal relationships came up to deal with issues as they arose. The formal arrangements are in place. We respect those. We continue to discharge our oversight function through a combination of the formal and informal, but there is a greater emphasis on the formal again than there had been because, as I say, there was a certain sort of crisis management over recent years, which required a more organic relationship.