Mr. Damien McCallion:

Dr. Scally was commenting retrospectively. On the processes that are in place, there are regular meetings now with the laboratories on performance and clearly in light of the current pressures that is even more important.

On contract governance, those measures were put in place during the process of Dr. Scally's review. Dr. Scally at a later point in the report in some of the recommendations on laboratories has made a number of other recommendations which we are working through with his laboratory specialist to try to ensure that we put those in place going forward.

All I am flagging is that these are not simple switches that can be switched on. They involve having a laboratory lead in the programme. I mentioned earlier that we have advertised for that and are trying to recruit for that internationally.

We will put those into place and strengthen those elements. It will take time to do some of them.