IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Mon, Mar 10, 2014
The National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) “is an extremely important instrument for the church in Ireland and any doubts that begin to emerge about its credibility and total integrity would be very, very damaging”, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has said.
This was particularly so where its reviews or audits were concerned, he told The Irish Times .
The archbishop was commenting following the disclosure on Saturday that Ian Elliott, who retired as chief executive of the NBSC last June, had challenged findings of a child protection audit in Down and Connor diocese and was considering a legal action against its bishop.
Mr Elliott said its findings “do not reflect the findings from the fieldwork” he had conducted last May and he was “deeply concerned at attempts by the diocese to attribute that review [audit]” to him.
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