Ms Anne O?Connor:

We set out that we are working with the Coombe Hospital to develop a national screening laboratory there. In terms of capacity, it is the number of available personnel that is a problem regardless of the number of facilities. As it would not make sense to try to staff too many facilities, we have a plan to develop a national centre. We are investing €5 million in that and working very closely with the Coombe to develop that in order to have greater capacity within our own system.