Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

By way of concluding comments, what message would Ms Keegan and Mr. Moran give to young people who are thinking of joining the scouts? I would like to end with a word of encouragement. We have a large young viewership, but we could promote scouting on social media. We are big at this time of the morning on live television. I do not wish to put the representatives on the spot, but they have made powerful presentations, although I do not want to take from anybody else's contribution.

With regard to what makes the community we create different, I do not know of any others that are as pure. Our whole ethos is concerned with actual human connection and interaction. That message is getting lost a little, especially with social media. There is something really nice about the fact that I feel as though I have a friend in every county. Regardless of whether I know them, there is someone there with a neckerchief. As I got older, I started to see that, in the exact same way, I had a friend in every country that has scouting. It is a global view. What one is entering into is a global network. There is not much I can think of that I cannot do because I have a friend or brother or sister scouts all over the world. I cannot see that kind of insurance and trust in the world in any other organisation.