Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry, I have a final question. The first thing in this contract, which I spoke about when Deputy O'Reilly was out and about and which she followed up on, was ISO accreditation. However, also within the contract - it may have been at clause 39, I cannot remember off the top of my head - was that this facility for subcontracting out and giving away slides was included in case one's plant went on fire. That is my reading of it. I have looked into it and my reading of it was that the clause - I think it was clause 39 - was there so that if 1,000 slides were coming from Ireland and the laboratory burned down or another disaster happened they could be sent elsewhere. It is under that line that the laboratory was saying they could be sent to Honolulu or wherever they were sent. To my mind that is breach of contract. Obviously there is also this ISO element, so there are two very critical points in the contracts which, to my mind, are very serious.

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