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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: On the conflict of interest, was an arrangement entered into with a senior staff member?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Were all the internal audit report contained recommendations fully implemented?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: It states in the annual report that "IFI plans to further develop policies regarding reassessment of properties not in use."

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is that ongoing active work regarding disposal or further use?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Ms Campion mentioned the word "complex". For anyone who has not seen the building, we know a certain about it from previous hearings at this stage. It would appear to be a substantial period residence on a plot of land with two cottages. Ms Campion also mentioned a work area. Is the work area part of the main house?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is Ms Campion happy that there is a comprehensive plan for the whole complex?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: What is the size of the complex?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is approximately 23 acres of land.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: What is on the Ballinakill site?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Has part of an old building been renovated or is it a new place?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is Dr. Gallagher happy to confirm that all of the recommendations in the internal audit will be fully implemented?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: How far down the road are they? Have most of them been implemented?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Obviously, if the file was in a filing cabinet, it was in an office. Have the people who worked in that office been questioned?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is very regrettable. It would have contained a lot of information that we have been trying to examine.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will get the works on it. Okay. I will suspend the meeting for ten minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: The next speaker is Deputy James O'Connor.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will turn to the financial statements for a moment with regard to expenditure from 2017 to 2022. I note that IFI is going from a figure of approximately €26 million in 2017 up to approximately €34 million in 2022. I also note that staff numbers actually reduced between 2021 and 2022, yet the expenditure is up. Why is that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: There is a fairly steep increase in expenditure from 2017 to 2022. I am going by a line on the graph where it looks like it goes from approximately €27 million to €34 million. However, staff numbers dropped according to the figures that we have.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is expenditure from 2017 to 2022.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: I am just going by the graph I have here in the briefing note.