Ms Marie Culliton:

We will have to wait for the Scally report, which will look at the results from each of those laboratories, and the audit carried out. We know what standards we expect in Ireland, and that CervicalCheck has a quality assurance and cytopathology document it expects all laboratories to adhere to. We know that all laboratories are expected to return statistics to CervicalCheck on a regular basis. Laboratories here are inspected by our national accreditation board. We do not know what the inspection regime in the United States is because they do not all operate to the same ISO standard that we do. There is a different accreditation system in the United States. ISO might be used but the laboratories might also be using the American scheme.