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- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: However, is that expenditure all current? Is capital rolled into that as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Within that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: It includes capital. That is the point I wanted to make. Basically, it is not related directly to staff, the increase in other issues, such as-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: With regard to 2022 and 2023, how much was spent on professional fees in each of those years? By the way, the staff reduction figures in the note I have here show that there was a reduction of 25 from 2020 up to 2022.