The Health Service Executive has said an inquiry set up following the resignation of a lecturer from Athlone Institute of Technology will focus on key child protection issues.
Dr McElwee resigned from his post earlier this month after management at AIT became aware of his conviction of a sexual offence in the Netherlands in 2005.
Conal Devine, who was appointed to chair of the inquiry, met HSE officials in Dublin yesterday evening to review draft proposals for the terms of reference.
The terms of the inquiry will also consider the legal basis for assembling information on staff working in third level.
The child welfare group, Barnardos has criticised the failure to include complaints made by staff at Waterford IT against Dr Niall McElwee in the inquiry's terms of reference.
Spokesperson Norah Gibbons said there was concern that serious complaints made to management at the Waterford Institute of Technology against the 40-year-old lecturer while he was working there were not going to be examined by the inquiry.
She says she accepts that information reported to the old South Eastern Health Board will be available to the inquiry, but she feels specific complaints made by teaching staff at the IT should also be included.
