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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I would not rule that out at this stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: No one has mentioned that to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I expect to do so, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: We indicated six months, which is the sort of timescale I believe is reasonable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: It has its statutory timelines for proper disclosures for managing that but, again, while it is appropriate for Ministers to follow due process in that and not to start trying to manage it themselves, my message to them is that I would give them the same direction as I have given to Mr. Neely and Mr. Barry, which is that they should proceed with as much haste as possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I presume, but one has to be careful here in respect of how protected disclosures are done, which is to ensure that it is done under proper due process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: As I have said, part of the problem is that there has been a great deal of political discussion on this, and it is a very significant issue, together with media commentary. I have no problem with the media commentary but I am not too sure that my adding a further political dimension in the nature of who is at fault, to blame or who said what to whom, would actually benefit Inland Fisheries...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I had appointed a senior counsel-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: The senior counsel was looking at the whole operation-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: Assumptions are being made or accusations, in the sense of some of the ways in which this is being presented, of a relationship within the Department, the management or others. There is due process and one cannot assume that just because someone says something-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: The assumption that because an accusation is made of someone in management, let us say, that it is by definition, correct-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: It does not matter if there have been multiple or single. One cannot just accept what one hears on the vine as being gospel and that we will act on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: Such is the protection of protected disclosures; I do not have the exact details but there is a reasonable number in each case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I would expect it to be less than double digits but in the high single figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I do not get directly involved in that, for good reason, which is that when the results or recommendations come from it, I am not tainting the process by having been in the midst of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I asked them that question yesterday and they said they were impressed that they had received a number of reports from outside agencies, including within their own protected disclosure process, that provided them with some of the details they need. I have every confidence in them. They are both former county managers and held in the highest regard. They have the skills to try to assess an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I would imagine it is a similar timeline. We will have to resolve this within the next number of months .
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I will have to check whether legally the accounts can be signed off without that. Unless one relates to the other and there is a direct accusation regarding the finances or the accounts-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I am concerned. It is one of the reasons, when the board was not functioning, we decided to act in the manner in which we did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Eamon Ryan: My assessment is that there were a lot of personal accusations flying in many different directions, which was impeding the ability of the board to operate and function effectively with management.