716. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health if she agrees with the HSE’s practice of using Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) as a postal conduit for a significant proportion of the approximately 20,0000 patient blood samples requiring genetic testing, particularly given that these samples are ultimately dispatched abroad to laboratory service providers in countries such as UK, Germany and Finland; if she will clarify how this arrangement can be justified in terms of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, patient data governance, given the availability of competent accredited laboratory capacity in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53936/25]

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716. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health if she agrees with the HSE’s practice of using Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) as a postal conduit for a significant proportion of the approximately 20,0000 patient blood samples requiring genetic testing, particularly given that these samples are ultimately dispatched abroad to laboratory service providers in countries such as UK, Germany and Finland; if she will clarify how this arrangement can be justified in terms of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, patient data governance, given the availability of competent accredited laboratory capacity in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53936/25]

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