Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland

4:10 pm

Photo of Seán SherlockSeán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that answer because at least it gives me some knowledge that this is subject to some sort of external tyre-kicking, if one wants to call it that. What the volunteers need is some signalling from the upper echelons that change management is going on because they are floored by what is going on at present. They were not too happy at the fact that Scouting Ireland did not come before the committee sooner because it created a very bad perception. That said, I appreciate the fact that Scouting Ireland is here today. I did ask whether there are internal reports on complaints. Are there internal complaints about bullying and harassment? I think that is a fair question. It can be answered. I do not think there is a legal impediment why it should not be answered. First I am trying to establish whether there are complaints of bullying within the organisation or complaints by volunteers or individual scout leaders and, second, that a process is under way to deal with them in a robust fashion.

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