Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

Is the Minister concerned that she gave false information in a parliamentary reply to this Deputy on this issue, as I have indicated to her?

With regard to the certification and proper standards of the laboratories to be employed, what assurances do we have the laboratories that will be outsourced domestically or to foreign locations will reach the standards we hope for? Is she aware that her policy of essentially ending the role of hospital laboratories is resulting in the flight of highly trained, highly qualified people who would ordinarily have taken up employment in laboratories on a number of hospital sites across the State? We are losing them and we are witnessing a brain drain. How does she square that with the Government's so-called commitment to a knowledge economy?

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