Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I am trying to get clarification on something. This is not the agency's direct concern but one of the big issues at stake here is whether there were differences in the detection rates of the outsourced American laboratories and the Irish laboratories that were testing the samples, as warned about by Sam Coulter Smith and the quality assurance people in the HSE who resigned in 2008. What Mr. Breen has just told us is very informative in that context. He has told us that all of the cases of misreading and failure to detect abnormal or cancerous cells in women who subsequently went on to develop cancer, and who took cases against the State, came from the American outsourced laboratories.