Aer Lingus plane sent to pick up €20m worth of PPE from China has landed in Beijing

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Health Minister Simon Harris says the personal protective equipment being picked up in China will be distributed to Irish healthcare workers tomorrow evening

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THE AER LINGUS plane sent to China to collect €20 million worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) for Irish healthcare workers has landed in Beijing this evening.The Airbus A330-302 cargo plane will be loaded with PPE including masks, gowns and goggles before it makes the over 8,000 km flight back to Ireland.

He said the equipment picked up in China will be distributed to Irish healthcare workers tomorrow evening. EI9018: Go raibh maith agat, I’ll pass it on to the rest of the crew, and we’re quite happy to be able to do it. Thank you.“We usually buy about €15 million worth of what we call personal protective equipment, face mask, gowns, goggles, shields, etc. in the year. This year, we’re going to spend €225 million,” Harris told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.

A shortage of PPE for healthcare workers was raised in the Dáil during the week and a number of campaigns are underway calling for donations of equipment to Irish hospitals.Doctor’s working in St James’s Hospital in Dublin made an appeal this week to various industries for donations of PPE.Speaking on Thursday, Chief Clinical Officer at the HSE Dr Colm Henry said that stock of certain items is low but that the HSE is confident that stocks will last until the new supply arrives.

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Hope they don’t give them defective or non-compliance PPElike they did to Spain and The Netherlands. ChinaEUMission we won’t tolerate more trickery like you did to my country, Spain.

Have we checked quality?

Let's hope these supplies are safer then the Dutch ones.

When this is all over will Chinese government be held responsible? Not a racist question.. they let this out when they were warned also will they be banning there wild animal food markets? They should be given all this PPE free with an apology

China sending faulty equipment I'm afraid.

Check the quality!!🤦‍♂️

I hope the quality of masks and test kits are checked before they are brought back. Many European countries recalling defective face masks or ceasing the use of faulty testing kits from China.

The Netherlands have recalled 600k worth of PPE sent from China -it was faulty

Love the picture of the handshake... very fitting. Why are we paying for flights to China? They should be free issuing and flying this stuff to us.

Just be sure all PPEs, which will be used to protect our frontline workers, are ALL in good quality! As many other EU countries found those products they bought from China having crappy quality issues!

Majority of negative responses here as usual. Get a grip people and see this as a positive thing, unlike here in the US where the response to crisis is disgusting.

ChinaLiesPeopleDie

ChinaLiedPeopleDie more fake PPe sent to Ireland......and they charging 20million.....ChineseVirus

Surely you could find a local manufacturer who could have done this isn’t of flying over and spending 20 m with the Cunts who caused it

Bloody hell wheres Leo for his photo op...christ alive get him quick...where is he? ..Leo.Leo...photo op quick

Hope they don’t catch the communism

Send our fastest jet plane, airforce

Who's footing the bill..

The Chinese are tricky they don’t show altruistic there has to be another agenda

We should be getting these for free considering it's the Chinese that cause this pandemic in the first place.

Aer lingus gone to pick up a load of garbage that will be faulty in some way.why can't Ireland make its own PPE?.

Considering that we are a world leader in airplane leasing I don't understand how we couldn't lease a cargo plane for this. It is good news that we are getting the PPE but an Aer Lingus plane is only allowed to carry the equivalent amount they could take as luggage

St Ronan is one of the planes that flies between Dublin and Boston (leaving Boston in the pic). Best wishes for St Ronan and her crew, and, well everyone.

Brilliant .Safe return .

What’s the story with all pro Chinese propaganda at the minute? If they regulated there food supplies and markets we would have SARS, swine flu, bird flu and Covid 19......they need to change their ways

Ask them to throw in the vaccine too

Something good to come out of China at least!!

Keep spinning the pro China PR

Make sure it works! The Dutch just got swindled.

Aer Lingus Flight just landed in Beijing. 👏👏

Don’t forget about Nursing homes please.

St. Luke's Hospital need some SimonHarrisTD

After his and Leo's photo opp with the plane

I seriously hope they're not faulty, because many EU countries have reported that many of the personal protective equipment from China are faulty.

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