Mr. Tony O'Brien:

I would wait for the scoping review for some hard information on that, to be fair. An open competitive tendering process was carried out in 2008, which followed quite a significant public debate, including a debate in the Houses. There was a debate on this in the Dáil at the time. Some of the members of the committee might have been there; I am not sure. The process was carried out in accordance with European standard procurement. The requirements were that the laboratories had to be accredited to the relevant ISO standard - I cannot remember the exact number of it now but it was ISO 15 something or other - and that they had to have a volume of 25,000 tests per annum.