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
James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The IFI can only exercise the statutory powers it currently has. I hear the point that Mr. Fox is making in respect of that, but it is not really our function here. In terms of the powers the IFI does have, are there not better ways that it could impose fines while not subjecting the organisation to such high and exorbitant legal costs?