Mr. Damien McCallion:

It did, yes. Historically laboratories received a number of quality assurance, QA, visits. They were done every three to four years. It is clear from Dr. Scally's report that we need to strengthen that. One of the priorities of the new appointment has been to build a team that will visit the laboratories annually. All of the laboratories will have their own accreditation, which I suspect will involve visits from their accrediting bodies similar to those the Deputy has described. These visits for the programme will be over and above that. Historically there were visits every three to four years but we will move to an annual review of each of the laboratories. That is one of the priorities for Dr. Nuttall.