Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 April 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland
9:30 am
Ms Suzanne Campion:
There is only one Aasleagh House. It is not something we do regularly in IFI. We have no other such premises. We do not come into that particular situation now. We have a board decision from October to sell the cottages and upgrade the other facilities at Aasleagh House, particularly the research centre. Regarding conflicts of interest, it was around segregation of duties, which is a key control within financial matters. It will not happen because we have introduced a policy whereby no commercial arrangements are allowable with staff within IFI. Therefore, those circumstances cannot happen again.