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The HSE halted payments to the Mater Private amid concerns that it was being billed for hefty intercompany interest bills paid to a Luxembourg entity. The High Court has largely ruled in its favour.

The HSE has refused to pay €6.6 million in costs to the Mater Hospital Group under a national emergency Covid-19 deal in 2020, claiming the private equity owners of the group are engaged in profit extraction. The Mater group is arguing that it is too late to rewrite the bargain.

A Wicklow supply company claims it is €3.5 million out of pocket because the IDA induced the HSE to withdraw from a ventilator contract. The development authority has launched a full-blaze defence.

Ireland's agency for foreign direct investment is being blamed for the HSE's withdrawal from a contract to buy critical ventilators. The Irish medical supplies firm who lost out on the deal now wants the IDA to pay damages.

Having urgently signed a €7.5 million contract to buy ventilators on the night of the lockdown, the HSE cancelled the deal and allegedly sparked a garda investigation involving Interpol. Court proceedings followed but a recent ruling means the dispute will now continue behind closed doors.