Results 481-500 of 1,027,301 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Brian Stanley) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes, for trainer courses. Presumably those are day modules or something.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay, and 52 people undertook those courses.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Am I correct in saying that more than 80% of them were in management-related courses?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: There were so many people undertaking management courses. I am trying to reconcile in my head the practice around the fact that 52 people from not that big a State body or public body were undertaking courses. On the other hand, to quote Ms Campion, you hit the "jackpot". That may not be the best term to use for it but, in the context of a number of issues that relate to poor 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)
Brian Stanley: I understand that. It will be accepted that regulations change, not just in respect of environmental matters and water quality and so forth, but also around a range of other things. The point I am making is that we have a situation whereby 52 people at middle or senior management level undertook courses and yet during the very same years IFI was landed with the jackpot in terms of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: I did not mean that in any bad way. However, it was landed with a number of fairly serious issues. The Comptroller and Auditor General is producing a report. If I heard him correctly, he mentioned that some significant issues will be reported on in that so presumably further information will emerge from that. We do not have that information yet so I do not want to prejudge that. The point...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: I accept that it is good that people are undertaking those courses. In any organisation, business or public body, it is essential that people keep up to date and get their skills up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Do I assume they are at a higher level?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: They arose because of bad practice at a higher level.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is Ms Byrne satisfied that the courses undertaken relate to so-called core activities or the main activities of IFI?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: On the basis of what she has seen, and I understand she has only been in the role for a short period of time, would Ms Byrne be happy and able to assure the committee that the courses that were undertaken in the past five years were related to the functions of those people within the body?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: I noticed a figure in IFI's opening statement when I was reading it before the meeting. It states that there has been a dramatic fall in the number of wild salmon returning to Ireland from 1.76 million in 1975 to 171,700 in 2022, a drop of nearly 90%. That is obviously concerning. I am not an expert in this. Dr. Gallagher is a scientist and I am not. However, I take it that the cause of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is Dr. Gallagher saying the salmon come back to the same river each year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is that a result of dragnet fishing or something else?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is that the ocean temperature?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is amazing that they go back to the same rivers. We humans need maps but they are able to figure it out. Dr. Gallagher's written submission states: In June, IFI will be hosting, on behalf of the State, a week-long event focused on the plight of salmon, in partnership with the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation. There, State actors and NGOs will discuss and agree plans for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Do fishing practices have anything to do with the falling number of salmon returning as adults?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is there any hope of improving the situation or arresting that decline?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: I will come to that in a minute.