Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion

Mr. Adrian Tennant:

I will pass most of this onto the then CEO, Dr. Lawlor but I will try to address a few pieces of it in a preamble. On the 2012 review, there were two key points of focus. First, due to an incident that happened a year before it was identified that somebody who had been removed from one of the legacy organisations who had been mentioned in one of the files had found their way back into the organisation and that was dealt with straight away. Second, a review was carried out on 332 files, none of which was in Mount Melleray. I do not know where the reference to Mount Melleray comes from but none of these files was ever there, they were always in Larch Hill. Those files were examined to see if anybody else was a member of the organisation that was named in those files and to see that if there had been a reportable offence, that it had been reported to the statutory authorities. That review mentioned the traffic light system. The majority of the files were deemed to be green and so they were fine. They were up-to-date, reporting had been done and the people concerned were not involved in Scouting Ireland. There were five files where it could not be determined whether people had been reported by that date to the statutory authorities. Those cases were reported immediately. That was the purpose of the review. From that date in 2012, all the files that were there at that point in time had been cleared to ensure that none of those people was a member of Scouting Ireland and that all those cases had been reported to statutory agencies. That was a watershed moment in 2012. I will pass the second part of the question onto the CEO, Dr. Lawlor.

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