Inland Fisheries Ireland has 'a significant task ahead of it to restore and maintain public confidence', committee to be toldControversies and governance issues that have arisen in a State fisheries agency are “very serious and unacceptable”, the Department of Climate, Energy and Environment is expected to tell the Dáil Public Accounts Committee. IFI chairman Tom Collins is expected to tell the committee the agency has been in “stormy waters” for a number of years. Collins is anticipated to say there was a background of “serious historical governance issues in the organisation”, which were examined at previous meetings of the Public Accounts Committee in 2023, 2024 and last December. IFI is a non-commercial State agency with responsibility for protecting and managing the State’s inland fishery resources. However, IFI has been at the centre of a number of controversies over recent years.

Source: The Irish Times March 26, 2026 00:50 UTC