Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Governance and Child Safeguarding Issues in Scouting Ireland: Tusla and Scouting Ireland

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is important that I declare an interest, as I did previously, as a registered, if not particularly active member, of Scouting Ireland. I have not been in a position to follow the entire debate as I was at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality until about half an hour ago. I will not go over any of the questions again. I wish to say that any child protection concerns that exist must be taken extremely seriously. Tusla must take every action within its scope to ensure that they are rectified. That must be the No.1 priority and I support that absolutely. I hope the lines of communication that are now there, including the meeting that took place last week, will lead to all the concerns which have been identified being resolved and that from there Scouting Ireland will continue in a manner where child protection is its foremost priority and that it continues to offer a high quality service for the benefit of communities across the island.

My question might dovetail with that of Deputy Neville's. What progress has been made on the eight recommendations?

It may come up in tomorrow's meeting. Is any completed or are they all in progress?

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