Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. John Gleeson:
The approach was that the laboratory had to be accredited. Furthermore, it was stipulated in the contract that the laboratory had to comply with the same quality assurance standards for cervical screening that cytopathologists would apply to laboratories. This had to apply regardless of location.