Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am not being rude but my time is restricted. I still do not understand how there is not one date on which Dr. Scally personally found out, by being told by someone or from his own research, that the laboratory was not accredited. To be honest, it just does not make sense. There has to be a date on which he found out it was not accredited. I want to confirm this. He did not find out from the HSE but through checking the website and the process he has outlined in my letter, which he also sent to the Minister. It is an issue that there is no single date on which he found out. The other thing is that Dr. Scally visited the laboratory in January and accepted what he was told. This turned out to be wrong, as he said in his report. It turned out that the laboratory was not accredited. That is a real issue for many of us but Dr. Scally accepted it. The concern is that, if he accepted that in this scenario and subsequently found out it was not the case, there may be other instances in which he accepted that a laboratory was accredited because the company told him so.