Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion

Mr. Adrian Tennant:

I will begin with legacy organisations and the mismanagement of cases back then. We have told this committee previously and told the Minister, including in our report, that Mr. Elliott told us he was uncovering situations where it looked as though cases were mismanaged, there were cover-ups and things like that. That is in the public domain. Mr. Elliott's job now is to figure out how that happened and what systems were in place.

There is a lot in what Deputy Sherlock said and I want to ensure that we answer all of it, particularly on the 2012 review, on which I will pass him over to the CEO. I will bring in the current safeguarding manager to speak specifically on who now receives those calls and the current safeguarding team. I do not want to move off this without answering each of those questions, so I will pass over to the CEO first part.