A company suing the HSE for alleged failure to pay for 350 ventilators sought at the start of the pandemic outbreak now claims staff and/or agents of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) made representations that the firm was not to be trusted , it has been claimed in Commercial Court proceedings.
As a result, Narooma Ltd claims the €7.4m contract for the intensive care unit (ICU) ventilators that the HSE refused to pay meant Narooma was unable to pay its supplier in China, a firm called Beijing Aeonmed.
Narooma is suing the HSE for not going ahead with the purchase or performing its payment of contractual obligations.