Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Alan FarrellAlan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Before I let Deputy Rabbitte back in, I will ask a difficult question which the Minister may not be able to answer.

This may be a difficult question and the Minister may not be able to answer it. I am thinking of other revelations of child sex abuse in the past. When figures of 71 alleged perpetrators and 108 victims are presented, it is clear that multiple children were subjected to abuse by the same individual. Has the Minister been presented with any evidence thus far of that sort of concentration? Is one individual responsible for multiple alleged incidents? Did the information presented to the Minister last night allude to any location or locations in which these incidents allegedly took place? Would it be pertinent at this point to put that into the public domain?

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