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

Mr. Martin Burbridge:

As I mentioned in the opening statement, we have answered as many of the concerns raised by the Minister as possible. We genuinely welcome the appointment of Ms Jillian van Turnhout to work with us to reassure her and the Minister on the issue of governance. We have brought forward decision-making on the board of directors from October to June and will effectively replace it with a totally new board. We will make a final decision in October, with a view to having a new board of directors in place by the end of that month. We are working on a number of issues, but we want to make progress on specific issues, including some of those referred to by Mr. Elliott, in order that we can assure the Minister that we are taking all issues seriously and working on many of them concurrently to improve governance. It is going to take a little time, but we certainly need to convince the Minister that we are doing the right things.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.