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:

I need to come back to the issue of compliance and what was communicated. The member of staff from Mr. Lee's directorate was at the meeting last Thursday with Scouting Ireland and quite clear in stating the correspondence from the compliance unit was specifically to the effect that Scouting Ireland should be compliant with its safeguarding statement. That was communicated by Tusla. All other compliance issues were about policies, procedures and practices. The letter of 18 February outlined where we had concerns.