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

I looked at this last night. I had never gone onto eTenders before. They publish the questions that other companies ask. Labs apply for tender and they are not actually accredited and they are told. They can see the answer from before that it is not good enough. It is all there already. There was a guy doing veterinary lab work in Ireland who was trying to do some State work. It is very clear in the history of the correspondence that it takes about a year to get INAB accreditation. It is a long process. It is not a case of the lab in Sandyford ringing up and asking if it is good to go and being told yes. It is not like that. There is almost an impression out of this that it is a box-ticking exercise. Getting a lab accredited is really serious. We have to bring them in here to find out what the hell they were at and who thought it was okay. Did someone ask them to retrospectively accredit their lab? Why would they do so? Why would anyone ever expose themselves like that for a private company? To me, it is really concerning.