HSE paid Irish firm €14.1m for ventilators that remain unused 

A HSE spokesperson said there 'were issues with the quality of the delivered products' and the ventilators were 'not deployed in clinical settings'.

The HSE paid €14.1m to an Irish company for ventilators from China which were never used due to "issues with the quality".

In March, the HSE recruited an Irish-based events management company, Roqu Media International Limited, to import medical ventilators and other supplies for use in Irish hospitals in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.