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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: As a matter of interest, the Minister will seek additional funds as part of the budget process. I ask Mr. O'Donnell to put himself in the Minister's position following all of the issues that have come to light, such as not insuring vehicles and the dysfunction around the board. Mr. O'Donnell says the organisation is understaffed and requires technical people. Does he honestly believe it is...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Is it politically viable?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I must beg to differ.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The vocational side is done by the people out there in wellies and so on.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Presumably, the State Claims Agency leads on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Is it done directly?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. O'Donnell made reference to 17 months of intimidation. Was that intimidation external or internal? Can he expand on the nature of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The communication was exclusively about Mr. O'Donnell, was it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister was on the record as saying there were ten protected disclosures, but they do not appear to have been logged in IFI. There is no record of them in IFI.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: How many protected-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: There were ten in 2022.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: That is enormous in relation to-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: In regard to the lodge, in 2015 a contractor was appointed for four years but withdrew after a year. Was there a penalty clause built into that because it was a four-year contract? Who ultimately broke the contract?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: It was completed. What was the nature of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: There are two others.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Were these all from present employees?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Can I ask, given what the CEO said regarding the information around the stay in the lodge, will IFI provide that to us?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I ask IFI to supply us with the cost of the auctioneer fees that have been outlaid on this. Obviously, the property had been put up for sale. Will the witnesses give us some sort of profile on what has been spent on it and what kind of income has come in on it, perhaps over the past five years?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: That is right. Since 2017.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Murphy: It is in sterling; I presume it is funding from the UK side, is it not?