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:

In our communication and interaction with Scouting Ireland, we received the organisation's safeguarding implementation action plan, which was dated February 2019. In that action plan, points 10 to 13, inclusive, were "on hold". They were primarily dealing with the safeguarding structure and policy as well as monitoring and compliance within Scouting Ireland. On that basis, we-----