Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

It is very much open and that is where the PCBs were identified. The situation is that a dioxin analysis element within it has not yet been validated and that is in the process of being established and being validated. There are some scientists here in the House who could explain it better. There has been significant investment in the laboratory and excellent work is being carried out there. The validation process with regard to a dioxin facility — if I can put it that way — is expected to be validated by February or March 2009. That process has been happening for some time. It is not a question of establishing a laboratory and then expecting it to give the results.

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