Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Over €220,000 has been spent by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to date on investigations into one of its care facilities in Mayo at the centre of allegations of abuse towards vulnerable residents.

The Áras Attracta facility for people with learning disabilities has been issued with a notice of proposal to cancel the registration of one of its centres.

Critical care standards at the Áras Attracta disability centre in Mayo were not being met a month after footage emerged showing residents being fore-fed, kicked and slapped, an inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority found.

The people in Aras Attracta had no voice. The behaviour of those ‘care workers’ is appalling and warrants criminal prosecution.

The head of the HSE has been called to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee tomorrow as pressure mounts on the Government to establish a full inquiry into the abuse of residents in care homes.

Tánaiste Joan Burton has said she has an open mind on what should happen after the HSE and gardaí’s Áras Attracta abuse inquiries end.

Nine people have been suspended on full pay at the HSE-run Áras Attracta care home in Co Mayo after a Prime Time report showed shocking treatment of residents.

RTE has confirmed that it reported the abuse it recorded at the HSE-run Áras Attracta care home in Co Mayo to the Gardaí.

The sister of a woman who suffered sustained verbal and physical threats at Áras Attracta says the scandal has nothing to do with cutbacks and everything to do with "an accepted culture" of abuse.

Elderly women with serious intellectual disabilities have been kicked, slapped, dragged across the floor and treated as "non-persons" by health workers in a special HSE facility meant to ensure their care.

The HSE has announced plans to set up a network of “safeguarding” teams to stamp out abuse of vulnerable adults in care on a week overshadowed by allegations of such behaviour.

Nine workers at a centre for people with intellectual disabilities, which is being investigated by gardaí after the sudden death of a resident in 2012, have been taken "off duty" after separate serious abuse allegations.

CRIPPLING budget cuts to the HSE-funded voluntary bodies which cater for people with intellectual disabilities has dominated the headlines this week.

PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities living in HSE residential homes are being forced to live in overcrowded houses with no therapeutic services or treatments, it has been claimed.