HSE chief to 'look at' appearance at same conference as Roqu chief

HSE CEO Paul Reid said he will examine his diary commitments ahead of the conference. Picture: Leon Farrel / Photocall Ireland

The head of the HSE has said he will “look at” the fact he is due to speak at a health conference next week along with the CEO of a company which was paid €10m by the HSE for ventilators that were never used.

Asked at the HSE’s weekly Covid-19 briefing whether he thought it was appropriate to address the same event as Robert Quirk, chief executive of the Roqu Group, Paul Reid said he has “a number of commitments in the diary, I tend to live for tomorrow’s commitments”.