PPE makes up bulk of HSE's €1.1bn payments to third parties so far in Covid-19 battle

HSE CEO, Paul Reid, said that from the early days of the pandemic, the HSE had put a cost of €1.8bn on Covid-19 for the rest of 2020. Pic: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland

The scale of the cost so far to the HSE battling Covid-19 is revealed in records showing payments by the executive of over €1.1bn to third parties since February.