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

I will have to revert to the Deputy with the details on that but my understanding is that somebody who works for Ernst & Young has been retained by the HSE. I forget her name but she has been retained by the HSE as a project manager. The view of the CEO of the HSE, Mr. Paul Reid, was that we were asking the scientists and the lab managers to do too much. We were asking the same person, Dr. Cillian De Gascun, a great man who runs the National Virus Reference Laboratory, NVRL, also to project-manage the ramping up of testing across the entire country.

We can only ask one person to do so much. An experienced project manager was brought in from the outside to do it. That is how it came about.

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