Dr. Adrienne Duff:

Generally speaking, when organisations engage with us, they can carry out testing long before a need to become accredited arises and they make an application. We confirm and award accreditation to organisations on the basis of the assessments we perform. The matter before this committee today is of significant concern to the Irish National Accreditation Board and we have critically reviewed our own processes and procedures and have identified a number of steps and improvements we have made. They already have been implemented and we will continue to check to ensure those processes continue to be implemented and improved.