HSE's Covid procurement policy to be investigated by C&AG

Catherine Murphy has questioned how a company with no experience in terms of medical devices could be used to procure same. 

The State accountant for Ireland is to investigate the HSE’s procurement policy during the initial phase of Covid-19, including a €14.1m transaction to import ventilators which didn’t work.

Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) Seamus McCarthy told the marquee Public Accounts Committee that a separate chapter would be set aside in his organisation’s annual report for 2020 on the subject.