Clare building company ordered Chinese ventilators at 75% more than average cost 

Clare company EKO Integrated Services agreed an order with the HSE to provide Chinese ventilators to the health executive at a price 75% above the usual price.

Labour party leader Alan Kelly with TD Duncan Smith talking to the media at the Labour Think-In. Mr Kelly recommended the use of EKO services in the procurement of ventilators to the HSE. Picture Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

A Co Clare building company which became Ireland’s largest supplier of Covid-19 PPE, agreed an order with the HSE for Chinese ventilators at a price 75% above the average cost for such machines.

EKO Integrated Services, an Ennis-based company, agreed to supply 100 VG70 ventilators from China to the HSE in early April of 2020 at a cost of €65,000 per unit.