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

Dr. Scally was very clear. From memory, I think it was page 52 of the report. A box on one of those pages shows that the contract was for ISO accreditation. A particular laboratory said not to mind the ISO and that the American college of whoever says it is doing everything fine. Contracts have been awarded and been operational and these laboratories have been looking at smears. I am fine with the different discrepancies and such. From what Dr. McKenna said, it looks as if there is not an outlier here. I am trying to get down to how this could have happened. How could we not have ever had a consultant-level pathology expert looking at the laboratories to which we were sending all of the smears to see if they were up to scratch? What were the quality assurance people doing?