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

It was done from the start. That is how I see it now. I want to address the position of the Irish National Accreditation Board, INAB, in all this. INAB is the accrediting group; it has a very serious role and is aligned with its international counterparts. Would Dr. Scally be concerned about the retrospective accreditation issue as somebody who, I am sure, is all about standards? Following on from Deputy Kelly's questioning about how we could have ended up where the lab was never visited, there are limitations in INAB's role outside the jurisdiction - it ticks so many boxes that are wrong. I am really concerned. That is why we have to bring INAB into the committee. If we are seen to have a lab accreditation body not accrediting labs, doing so retrospectively or messing about, it is very serious. The Vice Chairman is nodding; I will have to be cut off or I would stay here for the evening.