Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Testing and Tracing

Dr. Cillian De Gascun:

One of the things we did learn at the time was that we in the National Virus Reference Laboratory and a number of the hospital laboratories around the country were pulling from the same global supply chain. This was because one of the platforms was particularly good from an extraction perspective. With the help of HSE procurement, over the recent months we have ensured we have diversified across the hospital laboratory network. Hopefully, we will not get caught in the same situation again.

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