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
Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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What I want Mr. Fox to do is to go back to the board and say, “I am the head of the IFI. Why was I not informed at the start of this year that the findings from the external investigation were produced by the Department?” That is what I would say. If Mr. Fox wants to create a culture of proper governance, he needs to be leading this organisation properly. What I certainly believe, because I know from experience on this, and Mr. Fox knows that I know from experience, because I am a Mallow man and I know about the revelations that are ongoing within the IFI, is that this needs to be absolutely built up once again from the ground up because the IFI is an organisation that is distrusted by the public. Hopefully, I will have a second opportunity to come in.