Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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It will be at least a year after I asked for it. The reason I asked, in case anyone is in any doubt, is that I am convinced at this stage that it will show that the outsourcing of this service brought us to this point. We outsourced this work to laboratories with lower standards for profit, research, medicine and clinical activity, as opposed to public health. This has brought us to where we are and that is the grave political mistake that was made. We should learn from that and never again make that mistake. Unfortunately, we seem to outsource an awful lot of our health services.