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HSE Data Breach – September Update (is the truth starting to come out?)
On the 15th May 2021 the Data Protection Officer (DPO) for the HSE made a data breach notification to the Data Protection Commission. In that notification he said that a day earlier the HSE suffered a data security breach of its IT systems. After some difficulty we have obtained the official data breach notification pursuant to the Freedom of Information [...]
Phone systems down
Blueface, our telephone provider is experiencing technical difficulties this morning and as a result our phones are down. If you need to contact us please email info@odowd.ie and we will call you back as soon as possible. We hope to have full service restored shortly. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Flawed BEAM could be open to judicial review
Mícheál O'Dowd of our office was quoted today in Agriland, a leading news publication for agricultural matters in Ireland on the unworkable and illogical nature of the Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM) Scheme introduced in 2019 to assist drystock farmers. Over 3200 farmers are currently facing repayment demands from the Department of Agriculture, and it likely thousands more will face [...]
