Supplier of unused ventilators also lobbied HSE on 'Covid passports'

Robert Quirke, president and CEO of Roqu Group, at the pilot launch of Health Passport Ireland.

Robert Quirke, president and CEO of Roqu Group, at the pilot launch of Health Passport Ireland.

A company which imported ventilators for the HSE from China, which were never used, also lobbied the executive repeatedly as to its interest in a further initiative involving a digital Covid passport.

Roqu Group, a company incorporated in May 2020, made repeated overtures towards senior HSE staff as to their interest in a project, originally known as Health Passport Ireland, from last summer.

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