Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is one of the natural consequences of outsourcing. Once one goes down that road, one is constantly chasing the price rather than other matters. When something is outsourced, one's capacity to oversee quality assurance is also outsourced to a certain extent. We see a very hands-off approach to quality assurance. I do not mean this disrespectfully but this retrospective accreditation presents a very big difficulty for me. Women have raised this issue with me. They have asked how something could be retrospectively accredited when it no longer exists. That is a serious difficulty. That sort of issue is a natural consequence of outsourcing.

Is it expected that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, RCOG, review will include a breakdown on a laboratory-by-laboratory basis so that any cluster errors - I am not very technically minded but I believe that is the term used - which exist will be identified?