Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy has raised a key issue, which the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has been addressing. The Department recently received a report from Professor Alan Reilly with a range of recommendations about how this issue should be addressed. The report examined the oversight and co-ordination of the laboratory activities, the reorganisation of the structures and functions within the central laboratory complex and options for the future development of the regional laboratories with a view to improving disease investigative and surveillance capability with the overriding imperative of maintaining and enhancing services to farmers. The Department is considering this issue.

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