An 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.
IFI chairman Tom Collins told the department in July last year that it “strongly contests” this conclusion of the report on the protected disclosure made by a staff member.
It is understood that the protected disclosure related to an incident in which a staff member was involved in a crash while driving a vehicle which had been leased by IFI.
It subsequently emerged that this vehicle and more than a dozen others, operated by IFI, had not been included on the organisation’s insurance policy.
The documents provided to the Public Accounts Committee show that in February last year, the department had sent the report on the protected disclosure, drawn up by a company called RSM Ireland, to IFI.
Official minutes show the report was considered by the IFI board and its audit and risk committee in late February last year.
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...
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