HSE in 'detailed discussions' with company over €14m contract for ventilators that failed quality checks

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Questions were raised about the deal in the Dáil today

HSE CEO Paul Reid. Image: Rollingnews.ie HSE CEO Paul Reid. Image: Rollingnews.ie THE HSE HAS said it is examining the process around the procurement of a multi-million euro ventilator contract that ultimately saw the medical devices fail quality tests.

, with Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall TD saying that “one must wonder how this contract came to be placed”. Reid said the HSE used a number of suppliers to source ventilators and that those from Roqu constituted “a smaller number”. Answering Shortall today, Tánaitse Leo Varadkar said that the procurement took place in “a pressurised period”.

 

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Paul Reid 'the HSE is in “detailed discussions” ...the company involved, about its “contractual obligations”. However, the question is how they got the contract? Having no experience in this field whatsoever. Varadkar is suggesting that government is accepting no responsibility

Politicians and Civil servants looking after their business cronies onto the Gravy train. Follow the money.

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