In 2025, Inland Fisheries Ireland said it would co-operate with any Garda investigation. Photograph: IFIAn official report on complaints by a whistleblower into issues at a State fisheries agency was referred to the Garda Commissioner by the Department of Environment, records sent to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee show. The documents indicate that the report on the protected disclosure found, in part, that Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) had knowingly allowed an individual to produce invalid insurance documentation to An Garda Síochána. On March 4th, gardaí wrote to department secretary general Oonagh Buckley seeking clarification as to whether the RSM Ireland report had been sent to the commissioner as a complaint for the purpose of criminal investigation. Members of the Public Accounts Committee have been investigating several issues involving the agency that were set out in a special report last October by the State’s main auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Source: The Irish Times January 22, 2026 16:32 UTC