Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 52939-26
Deputy O'Flynn asked about the national modelling of laboratory testing costs. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: July 2026
Updated: September 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos.1085 and 1086 of 19 May 2026, which confirmed no national modelling of laboratory testing costs has been undertaken and no assessment of the financial impact of duplicate or unnecessary testing has been carried out, whether her Department will now commission such an assessment given the acknowledged absence of a centralised dataset; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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