Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Liam Keogh:
Safeguarding is quite broad and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. For me, there are three aspects to safeguarding. The best form of safeguarding is prevention and all that happens before. This is about empowering people to keep themselves safe. Then it is about looking at how we respond, and the clinical expertise and training needed to respond to the issues and concerns we have. Afterwards, it is about what we do to support people's lives after they experience trauma and how we best support that. These are the three aspects of safeguarding.
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