Seanad debates

Wednesday, 7 December 2022

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

 

10:00 am

Photo of Seán KyneSeán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know the family very well. Multiple anonymous letters have been received from former employees of Inland Fisheries Ireland, and one of the employees was suspended after 37 years of service. When that was done, they then targeted the then chair’s nephew, who is also an employee of Inland Fisheries Ireland. Clearly, people within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Inland Fisheries Ireland were not happy with the way the board was acting, because it was trying to save the western lakes and to take some of the steps that were necessary. It was not necessarily doing the bidding of the CEO, and that goes to the heart of the matters at issue. One of the anonymous letters, referring to that family, stated, "Two down, one to go. Gotcha, you bastard.”

It is within Inland Fisheries Ireland that all this is taking place. I referred to it yesterday and I will keep referring to it until action on the matter is taken by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine-----

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