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. Brian Lee:
It is important to say on the child safeguarding statement that Tusla engaged with hundreds of organisations on this. There have been issues of compliance with various organisations but we have taken every organisation to compliance. No organisation is on the register of non-compliance on this. We regularly correspond and engage with organisations to take them to compliance, therefore Tusla is already doing this. We do engage with these organisations in a professional manner to bring them to compliance because that is our philosophy. We would rather have a really good child protection process in place than get into conflict with organisations.