Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming in. I am sure they have been looking forward to today. I have many questions. I will not get through them all today; it is impossible in the timeframe. I have spent hours, days and weeks in discussions with patient advocates. The questions I have lined up are theirs. They have asked me to ask these questions. I will not get through them all today so I will write to Dr. Scally with many others. I am glad he is staying on to work with the Department so that he will be able to answer them. I have many issues to raise and questions to ask about gaps in the report. I have done a full chronology of what happened and how it happened since the last report was released and I am concerned about certain issues. I will ask about a few of them now and I will write to Dr. Scally regarding the rest.

Having regard to the patient advocates' questions, I have the terms of reference of the review to hand. At any point, was Dr. Scally of the view that it was not his role to investigate quality assurance in the laboratories?