Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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572. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the allocations of funding from his Department to promote hatcheries and spawning beds to facilitate restocking native fish species in each of the years from 2008 to 2016 in tabular form. [21432/17]

Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), the state agency responsible for the protection, management and conservation of Ireland's inland fisheries and sea angling resources was established in July 2010 following an amalgamation of the former Central and 7 Regional Fishery Boards.Details of overall out-turns from Exchequer allocations to IFI, in the period 2011 (IFI's first full year of operation) to date, to support its wide range of functions are set out in the following table. 

The allocation is not disaggregated between operational functions and there is, consequently, no specific allocation for hatcheries and spawning beds.  The support of all functions is a day to day operational matter for the Board of IFI.

In addition, IFI generates own income, which is used to contribute to its overall spend. 

Details of own income are also detailed in the following table.