Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion

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

The fact remains that when we went out, we said we wanted ISO. The contract happened. In the contract, it says we want ISO. The contracts were signed. They were not ISO, they were College of American Pathology, CAP. I thought perhaps the labs were in breach of contract. I think I read that somewhere along the way. But really if whoever was in charge at the time was fool enough to sign a contract with the wrong standard, it is their fault, not the company's fault. Then for some bizarre reason in 2012, in the document on eTender, it changed to "equivalent". I am suspicious as to who did that. Did someone cop on somewhere along the way that it was different? Was this emerging slowly over time? I am just suspicious of how that changed. Did Dr. Scally get to the bottom of it?

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