Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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283. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for the Inland Fisheries Ireland organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17672/16]

Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The statutory remit of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is the conservation, protection, management, development and promotion of the inland fisheries resource, including sea angling.

Since its establishment in 2010, IFI has been innovative in its approach to delivering on this remit by introducing new operational methods and technology to its protection and conservation functions to enable more efficient deployment of resources. IFI has also overseen a major property rationalisation resulting in the acquisition of a new headquarters building and exiting from leased buildings to facilitate significant costs savings over a number of years.

IFI’s most recent corporate plan outlined the organisation's strategic direction from its establishment, which involved the amalgamation of some 17 separate bodies, to the end of 2015.  A new draft corporate plan for the period 2016 – 2020 has recently been submitted and is being examined in detail in my Department.  I expect that this new corporate plan, which will act as the roadmap for the future development of IFI and the inland fisheries sector, will be presented shortly for Ministerial approval in accordance with the Inland Fisheries Act, 2010.