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A WARNING HAS been issued over unauthorised labels on some defibrillator pads which display an incorrect expiry date.
The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) today said that a number of Defibtech Automated External Defibrillator (AED) pads supplied to the Irish market have been affixed with unauthorised labels.
These unauthorised labels, which the HPRA said were applied outside of Defibtech’s control, provide an incorrect expiry date.
The HPRA warned that this could result in expired AED pads being used after their shelf life.
This in turn could result in a poor electrical connection and reduced energy delivered to a patient.
Defibtech has issued a Field Safety Notice (FSN) to customers highlighting the issue.
The FSN details how to identify an affected AED pad and outlines the actions required to arrange for the removal and exchange of an affected AED pad.
The HPRA has also directly contacted a number of organisations that could be impacted and is urging users to immediately check their AED pads.
The HPRA is the regulatory authority for medical devices in Ireland, and Defibtech is working with it to further investigate the matter and its impact on customers, as well as to assess the total number of pads affected.
It’s understood that the authorised labels on a number of AED electrode pads were removed and an unauthorised label was then applied outside of Defibtech’s control.
This could potentially lead to an expired AED Pad appearing as though it is within the acceptable use range.
The affected AED Pads are for exclusive use with Defibtech AED models and include:
Defibtech and the HPRA are advising customers who have one of the Defibtech AED models listed and have purchased Defibtech AED pads to immediately inspect the product label.
Those with affected products should contact Oxygen Care, Defibtech’s new Irish market distributor, to arrange a return and exchange for an authorised labelled Defibtech AED Pad free of charge.
Not a fiddler’s could this government give about the public
So the government will defy the data protection commissioners instructions, interesting,what if a citizen were to challenge this demand for their information, how do civil liberties groups respond to this situation?
@Honeybee: They are making a legal challenge against some findings and as such can continue as was. Right now there are two legal opinions that will be decided on by a judge. Nothing sinister or abnormal but standard legislative stuff.
@Honeybee: Article in Irish Examiner:’Incredibly bizarre’ for Government to challenge Data Protection Commissioner’s rulings on Public Services Card’s 3/9/19
Last year article in Journal.ie :’We are trying to sound he alarm’-Committee years Public Services Card is a legal ticking time bomb’ 8/2/18
I trust TJ MC Intyre of Digital Rights Ireland and Simon Mc Garr Director of Data Compliance Europe.I trust Data Commissioner and respect her independent role& that should be respected by Government!
Well that’s just straight up illegal, surely?
@Keith O’Reilly: I would think only if they loose the appeal they are applying for
@Keith O’Reilly: the DPC’s report isn’t legally binding. Essentially, it is an opinion only.
@Alan McArdle: No,the only non-binding part of Data Commissioner Report is the ‘non binding analysis capturing changes to the law as introduced by GDPR’,from the Data Protection Commissioner’s Statement on Matters Pertaining to the Public Services Card’!
Why should WE obey the law if the Government don’t…..
So the Government backs the DPC until it finds against them. Then they are going to challenge the DPC’s findings and recommendations. And guess who’s paying for all of this? You and me bud, you and me.
Eoin O Duffy would be so proud of his Stasi Blueshirts.
@Stephen Grehan: Some Irishmen heard the call of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini too.
We of course are picking up the tab for these appeals .. Wasting more tax payers hard earned money.
@Willy: Earned, paid tax on, it is gone. You can claim some of it back! You don’t go to your local shop buy a loaf of bread and still claim to own the money do you? You elect a Government, they decide how to distribute Revenue earned from tax.
Well Now, there’s a surprise !!.
Is this now a matter for the gardai??
@Pseudonym: If their appeal is rejected then it would be but not until then. It does display their contempt towards us though.
@Damien Hawe: They are following the law, two different legal views that require a judgment. If they didn’t do this they would be showing contempt for their own legal advice. How do you know which is correct?
@Craic_a_tower: You don’t but logic would suggest airing on the side of caution until it’s sorted out.
This just reeks of the government’s contempt for Irish people.
There is no legislation to back up this card. FG/Lab attached the card to a piece of irrelevant old SW legislation.
There was never any intention by FG to follow any of the legalities required to gather and process people’s private and personal data, and share it around despite all the laws they say they cannot do so.
They well knew they were and are breaking the law. The FG minority government enacted legislation last year to indemnify themselves against any fines resulting from any legal action that the EU or anyone else may take against them for the illegal misuse of people’s private and personal data.
This government has crossed the line many times,this line should never have been crossed and FF would need to start putting the public first and put a stop to this
I heard the witch Regina Doherty on the radio this morning.her legal team is going to take on the data protection commissioner legal team!!!more waste of tax payers money,the data protection Commissioner has studied this for two years and the arrogance of this woman to shoot it down.she needs to be removed from office.shes a disgrace
@dick dastardly: Do you want the legal right of appeal removed entirely, or just from those you don’t like. And if a legal finding was made against you which you considered to unfair or erroneous under law, would you just accept the finding and move on ? Or would you appeal the finding, in spite of the fact you seem to consider it both arrogant and disgraceful to do so ?
It’s all about the data
They weren’t long banning carbon free scooters off the road , because they couldn’t make a quick buck out of it , they just suit themselves
If the average public person done a sniff of what the government do We would be locked up. They think they are above the law.
Government do what they want even when ordered no to do so. THIS GOVERNMENT IS A DICTATORSHIP and the public just have to jump when they shout.
And a D head of a leader who was not voted in by the people!!!!!!
Doesn’t surprise me at all, after all we live in one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
Good news.
There is no problem with the Dept of Social Welfare continuing to issue or to utilize the PSC for their own purpose.
@Chin Feeyin: They have no right to collect, collate nor disseminate any data on anyone. Card or no card.
@Dave Doyle: wrong, Mr. Tin Foil Hat.
I gave my information willingly and received the PSC in return. They are entitled to share information on benefits with Revenue.
@Chin Feeyin: No gov. dept. nor body is entitled to share no private and personal data without first explaining to the owner of the data why they need to and seeking your express permission. That’s the law. Mr. FG Spoofer.
@Dave Doyle: very sensitive today, Dave.
First of all, I have never written anything positive about FG here. Never. Not once.
Now, you were wrong when you wrote that the PSC contains DNA.
You were wrong again when you wrote that if you give the Dept. of SW your mobile phone number that they know what apps are in your phone.
And now you’re wrong again. Dept. of SW can and do share information with Revenue.
Dept. of SW are indeed entitled to collect data about people who apply for benefits. How else could the system work?
@Chin Feeyin: FG troll. Even your reply contains untruths. ThIs FG government are, have and will as long as they can get away with it play fast and loose with people’s private and personal data.
It’s illegal, it’s unlawful, FG know it, so does their coalition partners FF.
@Dave Doyle: name calling? Is that the best you can do? Tut tut.
As I try to be law abiding I have no fear of the PPS Card . The Government should expand it’s use as soon as possible What is wrong with an ID Card unless you have something to hide All of Europe seem to use them
@Sean Ryan: What are the government trying to hide? What do they fear the public knowing? Why has the DPC said the card is illegal and has no basis in law?
@Dave Doyle: but doesn’t the alternative involve keeping our personal data in several separate databases and asking for personal information again, for each government department.
For example, if applying for a passport, you will no longer be able to varify you identity using the PSC. So you will be instead asked to furnish the same documents you presented when applying for the PSC card, proof of address, signature, photograph etc.
Thus data will be likely be stored in a separate database that dosen’t communicate with the PSC database. It might have its own problems with security, privacy and data retention.
The same will happen if applying for a driving licence, instead of providing the PSC you’ll need to give that government department proof of identity and address. To me this appears less secure, wasteful and more likely to leak personal information.
I’d like to know what advantage you think this brings.
@Sean Ryan: Thats not the point…try to understand the issue if you are going to comment…the issue was that the card was introduced without the necessary legislation and therefore is in breach of data protection laws…whether the card is good bad or indifferent really doesn’t matter at this point but FG seem to think they can ride over the laws of the land just because they’re in power wit6h the totally useless FF propping them up.
@David Jordan: which came first David, the chicken or the egg, they’ve manufactured the need for a PSC card for other applications to meet a bad commercial contract. A passport was accepted as proof already, why create an additional layer?
@David Jordan: The PSC is a name of convenience for a Biometric National ID card by the back door. There is no legal basis for this card. No legislation to back it up. If FG want to bring in a National ID card, biometric or not they must put the case for such a card to the people through debate in Dail Eireann. They didn’t, they had no intention of doing so, and now FG have decided to ignore the findings of the DPC and its recommendations. And challenge the report in court.
The UK government went about the process of bringing a national ID card into law in the UK. They spent Billions on it. But so complex were the legal and constitutional issues surrounding bringing in such a card they gave up on the idea. Were the proper due process to be applied by the Irish government to bringing such a card into law in Ireland the same problems with legal and constitutional issues could equally arise.
The EU takes people’s private and personal data, how it’s stored, secured and shared very seriously. FG in their arrogance have ignored all the laws surrounding private and personal data, and knew very well they were doing it. They brought in legislation last year in an attempt to indemnify the government against any legal action that may be taken by the EU or anyone else over this PSC and the abuse of people’s private and personal data.
The issue isn’t about any benefit of having a centralised data base. It’s about the FG minority government’s arrogance in attempting to bring in a Biometric National ID card and call it something else, ignoring the Dail, ignoring debate, ignoring laws, lying through their teeth about it and illegally using it in a punitive manner against anyone who dissented and refused to obtain such a card.
This is a great example of wilful blindness. GDPR last May had the country in a hape of preparations, deep housekeeping data on work computers and going on multiple courses to try to understand GDPR compliance. But in Dail Eireann it would seem they think the rules don’t apply. If they spend ONE CENT on trying to discredit the findings of the data commissioner I will be the devil on the doorstep come next election time, and a keyboard warrior in the meantime. I am sick and tired of this governments arrogance, from the preventable rise in the misery of homelessness, hopelessness and sweet deals with developers – including on public land. Enough!
Criminals con men and fraudsters
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@Pseudonym: Agreed, well said.
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