Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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On a couple of occasions, the Deputy has raised the issue of the sending of work abroad. I do not have that detailed information regarding what share of their work is performed outside the jurisdiction but I will ask my officials to get some information on that, given the Deputy has raised it twice. What I can tell him is that the kinds of targets that the State Laboratory has include, for example, the aim of analysing 14,800 different samples across the year, of assisting our coroners in the delivery of 4,000 different statements and of supporting the tests that need to be done to the amount of 700,000 tests in 2023. The level of output for this body for this year is very high and was very high in 2022. I will come back to the Deputy on the issue of what kind of work is sent from our laboratory to laboratories outside our jurisdiction.