Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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417. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the number of fixed charge notices that have been issued for inland fisheries offences has increased dramatically in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48108/17]

Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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There has been no increase in fixed charged notices to date in 2017 compared with 2016. Details are compiled by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) at the end of each quarter.  IFI have confirmed that to the end of quarter 3 (September 2017), 104 fixed charge notices have issued; this compares with 133 notices issued in the same period in 2016.