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:
We have a fixed-charge penalty system in place that addresses those minor offences, but quite a lot of the time those fines remain unpaid and we have to proceed to court anyway. That is where there certainly is not value for money. We issue a fixed-charge penalty notice for a fine of €150, it comes back unpaid and we have to bring forward legal proceedings.