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

Catherine Murphy: Yes. The human resources subcommittee did not meet at all in 2022. Has that changed now? Are there routine meetings?

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

Dr. Cathal Gallagher: In 2023, we had the two section 18 appointees, that is, two members acting as the board. They would have met directly and had board meetings with all of the senior management team to discuss a range of issues. The new board has been in place in January. I would think that it will get to that but there are priorities with EY. It has already set up three...

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

Dr. Cathal Gallagher: They come back to the same river each year and the same populations go out. Some rivers are still at a reasonable conservation status, although not as many as we would like, while some are really poor. That contributes to the overall population. The big issue is what has happened in the ocean. In the 1970s, for every 100 juveniles that went out into the ocean, 20...

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

Dr. Cathal Gallagher: There are various factors as regards the rivers. It is about the habitat. Through the water framework directive, we are improving that. The State is taking active measures. All of those measures we are taking on nitrates and under the water framework directive are attempts to contribute. Salmon will benefit from all of those. We are looking at things like...

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

Dr. Cathal Gallagher: If we look at the history, back in the day we had abundance. All of the drain channels are under the OPW. Various pieces of work have been done and I recognise the need for this with regard to flooding. Trying to do restoration programmes and help the habitat is another big area of work.

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

Brian Stanley: How sure can IFI be about the figures? The figure that jumped out at me from the opening statement was that there has been almost exactly a 90% drop. How sure can we be that it is accurate? I hope it is not accurate because it would be better if it is not. Do we have an accurate means of counting?

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

Dr. Cathal Gallagher: It is always a question because, as someone used to say to me, we are not counting cans of beans on a shelf. We are counting all of these fish coming back in 140 rivers. We have counters of various types. Many of them are full cross-river counters, which count all the fish, and then we have some partial counters. In the case of partial counters there is free...

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

Dr. Cathal Gallagher: To remove all the barriers in Irish rivers could take 50 years. It is this scale of a problem. We have a prioritisation process that looks at which barriers we can do in a particular period. This is not only about salmon. It is about a lot of things. It is about trying to make sure we take out the lowest barrier. A range of criteria drive which ones we pick...

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

Dr. Cathal Gallagher: I have to acknowledge there is a bypass fish channel planned for Ardnacrusha on the Shannon, which is a large investment. It is a partnership between the ESB, the OPW and IFI, driven by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This is the level of effort that is planned to go into catchments to try to help mitigate some of the impacts of some of the...

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

Sitting suspended at 12.09 p.m. and resumed at 1.30 p.m.