Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 December 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2023: Inland Fisheries Ireland
Special Report No. 118 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Governance, internal control and value for money issues in Inland Fisheries Ireland
2:00 am
Mr. Barry Fox:
What happened on the Blackwater was a significant environmental event, one of the biggest in the State's history. It has had a huge impact on local users, clubs and businesses. There is no question about it. It is something that the IFI is fully aware of and we are already engaging with the local stakeholder groups. We have plans in place to go down and do a full assessment of the catchment in 2026 to look at habitat restoration to produce more juvenile-----