Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)

My apologies for being out of the meeting for a period of time. I was at a meeting in the audiovisual room on advanced genomics, where one of the issues was that we are sending 20,000 samples abroad for analysis in relation to genomics when Irish companies are available to do it. We are also not sending them to any one place. We are sending them to over 100 different places and, therefore, there is no co-ordination. There is huge expenditure in this area. The Minister may not have the answers to this one now. I am merely saying it is something that should be looked at, given that every hospital is doing its own thing and there is no co-ordination. That is happening in quite a number of areas in the health service. It is something the Minister might come back to me on. I have already put down questions on it and it needs to be sorted. There are 20,000 tests going outside of Ireland when companies here in Ireland are available to do it.