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 was never performed when the HSE refused to pay and 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. That matter has gone to arbitration.