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Senator Kelleher sought urgent long-term funding certainty for Westgate Foundation’s Ballincollig day care, meals-on-wheels and sheltered housing services, and the Minister confirmed increased HSE support, ongoing talks and a shared commitment to sustaining them.
Requires the Minister for Health to draw up a new adult safeguarding strategy within six months of the Act starting, and to renew it every three years. The strategy must set goals and actions to protect adults at risk, cover services such as care homes, hospitals, mental health services, home care, day services, Garda work involving vulnerable people, and similar settings, and may include oversight bodies, advice and advocacy, and court powers to limit harmful contact. Public bodies would have to act in line with the strategy, and the Minister would have to report each year on what has been done, what has not yet been achieved, and why. It matters because it would put adult protection on a regular, public footing and force follow-up, not just planning.