Mr. Damien McCallion:

I think what the Deputy is referring to is misinformation. There is always a percentage of samples that will, for a variety of reasons, expire. We monitor this very closely. There was an issue in October or November last year but it was addressed with the laboratories. The rate is within the norms we have always had. This was old information that might have been misrepresented over the past number of days. There has been no change from the normal screening programme.