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	Minister of State with responsibility for disability Finian McGrath has requested an urgent meeting with Health Service Executive officials following last night&#39;s report by the RT&Eacute; Investigations Unit revealing details of a leaked review on the care of adults with intellectual disabilities in one region of the country.</p>
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	Mr McGrath said he was &quot;appalled&quot; by the findings that revealed hundreds of vulnerable adults were left at serious risk because of a failure to properly monitor various care services.</p>
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	The leaked internal HSE report reveals the executive did not have files for almost 200 adults with intellectual disabilities in State care.</p>
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	In other cases files only consisted of a single page while others had not been updated in over 25 years.</p>
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	The systematic failures left vulnerable individuals at serious risk of abuse, including sexual abuse because concerns were not properly identified or acted on.</p>
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	The report, which dates from 2013, was written by a senior social worker.</p>
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	It warns of a series of concerns related to hundreds of vulnerable adults in care in the same region as the &#39;Grace&#39; case - the young woman with profound intellectual disabilities left in a foster home for 20 years despite allegations of sexual abuse.</p>
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	The HSE said the care and safety needs of all the individuals identified are being met and there are no current safeguarding issues.</p>
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	But this morning there have been calls for immediate action with Sinn F&eacute;in&#39;s Caoimhg&iacute;n &Oacute; Caol&aacute;in describing the revelations as &quot;utterly scandalous&quot; saying on those who presided over the failures should be replaced with immediate effect.</p>
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	(Published by RTE.ie on the 15th July 2016)</p>
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	<a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0715/802532-hse-disability-care/">http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0715/802532-hse-disability-care/</a></p>
