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- 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)
Brian Stanley: -----supervisory practice-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)
Brian Stanley: -----environmental management-----
- 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.
- 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)
Brian Stanley: That is why-----
- 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?