Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The Deputy will have the opportunity to raise some of those questions with Scouting Ireland subsequent to my testimony. Based on the verbal information I have received, my understanding is that none of the alleged abusers is still working with Scouting Ireland.

As Deputy Rabbitte is aware from what I said in the presentation, one of the reports Mr. Elliott was asked to do by the organisation on safeguarding and Garda vetting recommended that a historical analysis of cases would be carried out and that is currently under way. The information I provided to the committee this morning comes out of the process of doing a piece of work the organisation asked Mr. Elliott to do. My understanding is that the work is not yet completed. I am in the process of continuing to review whether to fully restore funding to the organisation. The information I received yesterday and the additional information that will be available on completion of the report will be integral to the assessment of the restoration of funding.