The HSE in August 2021 purchased over €3.7 million worth of nitrile gloves without putting the contract out to tender.
A company controlled by the recently resigned Sláintercare head Laura Magahy received over half-a-million euro from the HSE during her tenure at the state healthcare progamme.
It took the recall of the toxic ViraPro hand sanitiser for the HSE to ask another sanitiser supplier whether its product was lawful to distribute in Ireland.
The businessman who sold the HSE €3.3 million of unusable hand sanitiser previously owned three companies that were struck off for failing to file accounts.
RTÉ has removed from its player an episode of Nationwide that featured a photograph of a naval employee in blackface at a fancy dress event.