Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I think I explained yesterday in the Dáil, 50% of the tests are done in Irish laboratories and 50% are done in US laboratories. Two US laboratories are used - one in New Jersey and one in Texas - and one laboratory is used in the Coombe hospital, not too far from here. The Health Service Executive audit that was done does not show any statistically significant difference in terms of the number of false negatives or false positives between the different laboratories. That is something we will have to examine. I have heard what people have said. I have heard the people talking on the radio who have raised concerns about the US laboratories but the information we have, and in the interests of women's health we should base our decisions on fact, is that they do not show a statistically significant difference in false negatives in one laboratory from the other. Until we have evidence to the contrary, we need to base our decisions on those facts.

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