Mr. Ian Elliott:

I argue for appropriate oversight. It is important that the CEO have oversight of safeguarding practice and advise, or report to, the board of directors on the safeguarding workload experienced by the organisation in order that it has an understanding of what the reality is on the issues being identified, reported and passed on and that it become aware of them. That is important because it needs to have that knowledge to ensure Scouting Ireland is appropriately resourced to deal with whatever the workload is. The only way it can do that - I have argued for this and it has been approved - is to have safeguarding as a standing item on the agenda for every board meeting that takes place. The CEO will be required to speak on that item and provide certain critical information on the workload on a meeting by meeting basis.