Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These are my final questions. Are all the laboratories - those in the United States and those here - equally efficient in their ability to determine and alert to the existence of the disease? How does the HSE propose to set in place a procedure that will quickly alert both the system and patients as to what to be aware of? Who alerts whom from there on? How are the relevant sections of the HSE and the Department of Health alerted? Are they alerted at the same time? Is all the information collated and referred in such a way as to ensure that the necessary information is available to everyone within the system?