Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 September 2026
209. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his officials ever issued a Section 14 Authorisation to Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) under the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959 for the stocking or restocking of invasive/non-native roach (rutilus rutilus) into Lough Corrib SAC, County Galway during stock management operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68246/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraInland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is a statutory body established under the Inland Fisheries Act 2010, with responsibility for the protection, management and conservation of the State’s inland fishery resource. Section 59 of the 2010 Act provides IFI, for the purpose of improving a fishery, with specific powers to take fish from a fishery and to implement measures intended to alter or regulate the stock in a fishery of one or more species.
As such activities are undertaken by IFI in the exercise of its statutory powers under section 59 of the 2010 Act, no separate authorisation under section 14 of the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959 is required.
