Safeguarding Ireland – Position Documents

PRESENTATION – Opening Statement to Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters – December 2025

STATUTORY INSTRUMENT – Re: Claims, Claimants and Control (Financial Safeguarding) – September 2025

PRESENTATION – Opening Statement to Oireachtas Committee on Health – July 2025

SUBMISSION – to Public Consultation on Adult Safeguarding in the Health and Social Care Sector – April 2024

SUBMISSION – to Department of Finance Consultation on the National Payments Strategy (NPS) – February 2024

PRESENTATION – to Oireachtas Disability Matters Committee  – February 2024

SUBMISSION – re Central Bank approach to innovation engagement in financial services – February 2024

LEGISLATION – Assisted Decision-Making Act 2015 (as revised April 2023)

SUBMISSION – on the Central Bank review of the Consumer Protection Code – March 2022

SUBMISSION – on Legal Aid – Feb 2023

SUBMISSION – on Retail Banking Review – August 2022

LETTER – to Minister for Justice re Coercive Control – Oct 2022

LETTER – to Minister for Finance re Banking ID – Oct 2022

SUBMISSION – on Draft General Scheme and Heads of Bill for the ADM (Capacity) Bill – January 2022

PRESENTATION – on Adult Safeguarding in Ireland – Patricia Rickard-Clarke – June 2021

PRESENTATION – A socio-ecological approach to elder abuse and adult safeguarding – Prof. Amanda Phelan – June 2021

SUBMISSION – to UNCRPD Interim Draft Report on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – April 2021

REVIEW – Mental Health Act – April 2021

BRIEFING NOTE – Equity Release Schemes – March 2021

SUBMISSION – to Expert Panel on Nursing Homes – June 2020

SUBMISSION – to Oireachtas special Committee on COVID-19 Response – June 2020

SUBMISSION – to Data Protection Commission on Regulatory Strategy 2020-2025 – January 2020

SUBMISSION – Domestic Violence Act – March 2019

BRIEFING NOTE – Amendments to Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act – January 2019

CONSULTATION – on Standards for Direct Provision – November 2018

LETTER – Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard Proposals – July 2018

COMMENT – Right to Liberty – March 2018

Safeguarding Ireland – Key Documents

Guidance on Human Rights-based Approach (2019)

Independent Advocacy Scoping Document (2018)

Review of use of Wardship in Ireland (2017)

NSC Strategic Plan 2017-2021 (2016)

Reference Documents

Department of Health – Policy Framework for Adult Safeguarding in the Health & Social Care Sector (2025)

Think Ahead – Updated Advance Healthcare Directive Template (2025)

HIQA – Guidance for centres for people with disabilities & older people (2025)

Sage Advocacy – Voice Matters (Review on Assisted Decision-Making 2025)

Central Bank – Protecting Consumers in Vulnerable Circumstances (2025)

HSE – Open Disclosure Policy (2025)

Sage Advocacy – Role of an Independent Advocate (2024)

Joint Comm. on Disability Matters – Ensuring Rights Based Safeguarding (2024)

Medical Council – Guide to Professional Conduct for Medical Practitioners

HSE – National Consent Policy, updated for Assisted Decision-making laws (2024)

HIQA – Advocacy in Health and Social Care (2023)

RED C – PUBLIC AWARENESS Research

October 2025: Assisted Decision-Making

November 2024: Financial Abuse

May 2024: Advance Healthcare Directives

Oct 2023: Planning Ahead

May 2023: Understanding of Assisted Decision-making

Nov 2022: Understanding of Reporting Abuse and Decision-making

Nov 2021: Awareness and Understanding of Safeguarding

Aug 2021: Safeguarding and Disability.

Feb 2021: Coercive Control.

Oct 2020: Safeguarding Laws and a National Authority.

May 2020: Healthcare Planning.

April 2019: Witnessing of abuse and what would reduce aduse

Oct 2018: Planning ahead to reduce risk of abuse.

RED C 2016: Baseline Research.

Financial Safeguarding

Banking & Payments Federation Ireland – Guide to Opening Bank Accounts (2021).

Banking & Payments Federation Ireland – Cocooning during Covid-19 (2020)

Banking & Payments Federation Ireland & Safeguarding Ireland – research (2019)

Banking & Payments Federation Ireland – Guide to safeguarding your money (2018)

Keep Control: Safeguarding you Finances in Later Life (2014)

National Safeguarding Office – Annual Reports

HSE National Safeguarding Office – Data Report 2024

HSE National Safeguarding Office – Data Report 2023

HSE National Safeguarding Office – Data Report 2022

HSE National Safeguarding Office – Data Report 2021

HSE National Safeguarding Office – Data Report 2020

HSE National Safeguarding Office – Data Report 2019

HSE National Safeguarding Office – Data Report 2018

HSE National Safeguarding Office – Data Report 2017

HSE National Safeguarding Office – Data Report 2016

COVID-19 Reports

Exploring older people’s experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)

WHO Report – Managing COVID-19 across long-term care services (2020)

Policing Performance with regard to COVID-19 – Policing Authority (2020)

Older Reports

Falling Through the Cracks – commissioned by Senator Colette Kelleher (2019)

National Standards for Adult Safeguarding – HIQA and MHC (2019)

Department of Social Protection – Information on Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults (2018)

Irish Council of Civil Liberties – Know Your Rights: A Guide for Older People (2016)

National Centre for the Protection of Older People (NCPOP) Reports

The Older Adult Financial Exploitation Measure (2014)

Abuse of Older People with Dementia (2013)

Older People’s Experience of Mistreatment & Abuse (2012)

Older People in Residential Care Settings (2012)

Financial Abuse of Older People: A Review (2012)

Abuse and Neglect of Older People in Ireland (2010)