Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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337. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will state the Oireachtas joint committee to which the State agency Inland Fisheries Ireland is accountable; the dates and attendees at any presentations made by IFI to any official body of the Oireachtas or the European Commission since the establishment of the agency in 2009; and if these presentations were on matters of policy or financial accountability. [44164/13]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), established on 1 July 2010, is an agency of my Department, which appears before the Committee on Transport and Communications as required. At the invitation of the Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries of the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, IFI attended the sub-committee in March 2013. The details requested by the Deputy are set out in the table below.

Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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338. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date on which Inland Fisheries Ireland last laid a copy of its annual report before the Oireachtas as required by section 47 of the Inland Fisheries Act 2010. [44165/13]

Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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339. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date on which Inland Fisheries Ireland will comply with section 47 of the Inland Fisheries Act 2010 and lay an annual report before the Oireachtas in accordance with its statutory obligations. [44166/13]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 338 and 339 together.

In accordance with Section 47 of the Inland Fisheries Act, 2010 Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is obliged to prepare and submit an annual report on its activities to the Minister who in turn is required to lay the Annual Report before each House of the Oireachtas. The 2011 IFI Annual Report, which reflected the first full year of IFI's operation in its current structure as a national body, was laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas on 7 August, 2013. The 2012 IFI Annual Report was received in my Department within the statutory timeline and will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas at the earliest opportunity.