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. Ian Elliott:

We do have that set out but, this is also important, it is not fixed. This is a process which will be ongoing indefinitely for as long as Scouting Ireland exists and is engaging with young children. As long as it is dealing with these issues, it will be evaluating its performance, learning from that evaluation process and applying that learning to its practice. That is what we do. We do it as a matter of course. We are not doing it just as a result of everything that has happened in recent weeks.