Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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I know. This question has already been asked. I am not sure whether this was answered 100%. Under normal circumstances, someone would get accreditation and start to do the work. These people were doing the work and accreditation was given afterwards. The best we can get is we see no reason why there would have been any problem because we do not necessarily believe that there was a problem and we have not had all the reviews etc., yet. What is worrying is the notion that this can be applied after the work has started and I seek an assurance from the Irish National Accreditation Board. It happened and we cannot change that without a time machine. It is not ideal, which is the kindest way of putting it. How do we know it will not happen again and we or other people will not be back here at some point saying "yes, but we then applied the accreditation to them"? Can Dr. Duff give an assurance that from now on, notwithstanding what happened previously, where this work is being carried out, the accreditation will be in place before the work is carried out?