Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I want some assurance from the Minister. Dr. Scally said it was surprising and disturbing that the Manchester laboratory was not accredited. I want to know when he found out, how the Irish National Accreditation Board, INAB, was informed, and who informed it, given that it inspected the laboratory on 17 April? The INAB gave a three-year retrospective accreditation without any baseline. On behalf of the more than 91,000 women, which is the figure for those affected between 2016 and 2018, although there have been more women since, will the Minister seek a clinical assurance statement from the HSE that it is okay that the Manchester laboratory was used for all the slides and that there is no issue? The laboratory was not accredited and had no baseline for accreditation. I know the history of how it was set up.

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