No political involvement in procuring unusable ventilators – Tánaiste 

Robert Quirke, president and CEO of Roqu Group, which procured ventilators on behalf of the HSE at the beginning of the pandemic. Picture: Julien Behal

There was no political involvement in the financial side of procurement for the Covid-19 pandemic, at least to his knowledge,
the Tánaiste has told the Dáil.

Leo Varadkar, taking leaders questions in Leinster House yesterday, was asked about the circumstances which led to festival management company Roqu Media International being given a €14.1m contract for the importation of ventilators which turned out to be unusable.