Company in dispute with HSE over ventilator supplies posted a €1m profit in 2020 

A Covid-19 patient has oxygen pumped into her body by a ventilator. The HSE has been in dispute with the Roqu group of companies after it sought to buy from them 328 units of the key medical equipment at the outset of the pandemic. Picture: Daniel Cole/AP

An Irish media management company which is in dispute with the HSE over the procurement of Covid ventilators from China made a profit of €1m after tax in 2020, its latest financial accounts reveal.

Roqu Media International Limited, an Irish company — primarily known prior to 2020 for festival management work in Eastern Europe and the Middle East — posted a €1.02m increase in its net assets as of the end of 2020, up to €3.1m, according to its most recently filed accounts.