Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Okay, that is fine.

The Department gathers a lot of information on antibiotic use, veterinary prescribing and so on. How are those data managed? What is the Department doing with it? Is it looking at it from the point of view of antibiotic resistance? Is it looking for geographical spikes in usage? A lot of powdered antibiotics are used in the poultry and pigmeat sector. Is the Department looking for antibiotic black spots? Is that what it is using the data for or is it just purely a data collection exercise?