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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: I thank our witnesses. I will start with some questions around the withdrawal of the prosecutions. How many cases have been dismissed or withdrawn overall?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: Was that across all District Court areas or just one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: Will Mr. Fox give us an example of one of the more serious cases that had to be withdrawn?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: What was the number of fish killed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: We have no idea of the amount.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: I was going to ask about the error and whether it was in fact an error. Mr. Fox said the relevant person did not have the authority to process the prosecutions. How did that come about?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: Who gave the go-ahead in the first instance to these particular staff to initiate these prosecutions? Who gave the request or order?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: I am only asking about IFI. Somebody asked these particular staff to initiate these prosecutions. I am looking for the position. If Mr. Fox does not want to give the name of the person, will he say the position held in IFI by the person who gave the request or order to these staff to initiate the prosecutions?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: What position did the person who gave the order hold? Was it a member of the board? Was it the chair of the board? Was it the CEO? Who was it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: It came from the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: We have yet to find out who gave that instruction and who the person on the board is who gave the instruction. What was the role of the staff? What was their position in the IFI? These are the staff who, it now transpires, did not have the authority to initiate these prosecutions. Were they clerical staff? It is a fairly substantial job of work to hand over to somebody. What was the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: I take it there was a failure in the system this time around.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: That does not answer the question as to who initiated it and who was given the task of doing it, which is what created this whole fiasco.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: It was recently reported in the Irish Examiner that IFI will be liable for the legal costs of the defendants in these cases. Does Mr. Fox have an idea of the total cost of this fiasco?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: That is some amount of money for something that could easily have been avoided if proper procedures had been followed. It is a total waste of money for the taxpayer. I want to touch on the uninsured vehicles fiasco. What costs have been incurred in the case that arose from the traffic accident involving the uninsured vehicle? Does IFI have an idea for a ballpark figure of the final cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: Does IFI have any idea of the final cost or an estimate of the final cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: I want to touch on the performance metrics. With regard to testing Irish watercourses for the presence of fish and suitability, does IFI test all Irish watercourses? Are there areas it does not test?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: Does it test all of them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: If the programmes were to be combined, what percentage of rivers would they cover?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: How are the results made available to the public if somebody wants to see them? There does not seem to be data on many of rivers on the map. How does somebody access the data for environmental, conservation or fishing reasons if it is not on the maps?