Whenever a GP discards examination gloves, a prison officer seizes a syringe from the cell of a drug user, or a hospital surgeon removes the sick part of a patient’s organ, the resulting waste must be treated with extreme caution. In Ireland, it is collected by the same company: Stericycle, a multinational headquartered on the outskirts of Chicago and listed on the Nasdaq market under the symbol SRCL, which is also the name of its Irish subsidiary. When asked by independent TD Catherine Connolly last year about procurement contracts negotiated without prior publication, then acting Minister for Justice Heather Humphreys…

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