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

Mr. Jim Gibson:

That was a telephone conversation made from the Department on foot of the correspondence that Ian Elliott had made to the Department on receipt of the Tusla correspondence. If the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and Minister ask for something, as a public servant one gets it. That is the bottom line. The letter was transferred. If the Chairman was sitting in my position, he would understand that. The Department is our governing body and if it asks for material, as it frequently does, we have to provide information that is required.