Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is an extremely important question in terms of value for money. I sat on the health forum years ago and watched this debacle emerge when all the experts told us not to outsource. Quest was mentioned in particular at the time. I am not blaming the witnesses for that but I certainly put blame on the establishment of the time and the type of philosophy that existed. We watched this happen and now it will cost an absolute fortune. That may be a bad choice of words given the suffering of many women so I am not making it in that context but in the context of actual cost. We had an excellent laboratory in Galway that was doing a brilliant job but it was all outsourced. Here is a golden opportunity so is the HSE looking at insourcing the tests?