Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Can I ask Mr. O'Mahony about that because he makes a very important point? We put this to both the HSE and the Department of Health and the impression from what they told us was they were not terribly impressed with the analysis. What they told us, which we did not have time to get into in more detail, was that the testing and the samples being used were non-comparable and that the 1.8% and 1.2% were non-comparable. We did not ask for a technical note from the HSE or the Department to get into that. Does Mr. O'Mahony believe it was comparable? If so, what are the HSE and the Department of Health missing? They essentially refute that comparison and say it is not an accurate scientific comparison.