Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Gerard O'Mahony:

The contracts for testing in 2008, 2009, 2010 went to the US to Quest Diagnostics. From 2010-2012, a second laboratory, Sonic, was added. Medlab required an 18 month lead-in for ISO. At the end of that two year contract, it was being done in Ireland and the US. I believe the only Irish public lab that started doing work was in April 2013.