Safeguarding Ireland is an organisation funded by the HSE that advocates for the protection of vulnerable adults in society. The organisation has established close links with Ireland’s pillar banks to lobby on legislation on financial services for this population. Latest returns on the lobbying register show that Safeguarding Ireland and the Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland (BPFI) met with Minister of State Kieran O’Donnell at the Department of Health to urge an “independent body to oversee adult safeguarding”. However, documents released to The Currency under freedom of information laws were nearly entirely redacted, providing no insight into the organisation’s…