Departmental Agencies Issues

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 October 2013

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Questions (337)

Michael Moynihan

Question:

337. Deputy Michael Moynihan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will state the Oireachtas joint committee to which the State agency Inland Fisheries Ireland is accountable; the dates and attendees at any presentations made by IFI to any official body of the Oireachtas or the European Commission since the establishment of the agency in 2009; and if these presentations were on matters of policy or financial accountability. [44164/13]

Written answers

Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Deputy Pat Rabbitte)

Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), established on 1 July 2010, is an agency of my Department, which appears before the Committee on Transport and Communications as required. At the invitation of the Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries of the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, IFI attended the sub-committee in March 2013. The details requested by the Deputy are set out in the table below.

Date	Attendee(s)	Presentation made to whom	Matters of policy or financial accountability
December 2011	Dr Ciaran Byrne	EU Commission	Matter of Policy
By invitation	Dr Paddy Gargan	NPWS and DAFM also present	Matter of Policy
March 2013	Dr Ciaran Byrne	Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries
By invitation	Suzanne Campion