Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Why did the senior people in the HSE not have a quality assurance mechanism in place to verify from the point of view of the HSE and CervicalCheck that the work carried out by the contractors was valid? Nobody in a public organisation for which a contractor is doing a job accepts that the work is done satisfactorily on the basis of the contractor sending back a report. Rather, the results of the work are checked. I am putting it as simply as I can. The witnesses are stating that the contracted laboratories did the work but no check on that work was carried out by the HSE.