Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 April 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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When the legal cases were withdrawn, IFI would have done work on those cases regarding the extent of the damage that was done and what it would take to remediate it. All of that was the kind of stuff that would be presented in court so that if there was a conviction, there would be the appropriate fine and compensation. In the absence of that, there is no income. Some of these things will take years to remediate where there is damage. Has this work been done in each of these cases IFI was about to take to court?
What is the process for remediation or where is the funding to come from in the absence of a successful case that would require remediation work, or the cost of the remediation work, as a consequence for the people prosecuted had there been a successful prosecution?