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- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. I will move on for a minute to courses undertaken by staff in third level colleges. As I understand it, there is a spend over that five-year period between 2018 to 2023 of €1,665,000. Would that be correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: No?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: It was for 52 people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: We can come back to that. I want to stay with the college courses for the moment. I have a list of college courses that as I understand it were undertaken by staff, and the colleges in which they were taken. The majority of them relate to management training and management courses. More than 80% of them relate to that. Would that be correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: I will tell Ms Byrne what they are. They are in project management-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: -----diploma in project management, energy management - I am running through them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: I have a list and I do not know whether it is correct or not. That is the question I am putting to Ms Byrne. There is a figure of €1,665,506-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: There is a course fee listed at the end of each one. The courses range from €14,800 down along. There are a number of fees of approximately €14,000. They start from €390.