Mr. Adrian Tennant:

We welcome the opportunity to come and speak to the committee as matters progress. We are happy to be able to share with the committee our governance journey to date, which we did earlier. Obviously, the issue of historical child sexual abuse will always be a major feature of these meetings. We expect nothing else and we are happy to discuss the issue. Our governance changes continue apace. Certain third level institutions are now using Scouting Ireland as a case study in governance.

I say to our members that the governance change had to be swift. We still have a job to do, as a board of directors through our sub-committees, in ensuring that the culture in Scouting Ireland is such that we bring people with us along that journey. I thank the Chairman and members of the committee for allowing us to outline that not just internally to our members, who are well used to hearing us talk about this stuff, but also to the wider public.