Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products: Discussion

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a few questions for the ILMA first. There are claims that anti-parasitic medicines, such as those we are talking about, have been dispensed too frequently and unnecessarily, thereby decreasing their effectiveness. If this is true, how does the ILMA propose to address the problems without having to require a vet's prescription for these medicines? Would the responsible people be monitored under the ILMA's proposed regulatory system?

Could the pharmacy union explain to us the comments on the supply of these products without veterinary prescriptions and instead upregulating them to prescription-only medicines? In other jurisdictions, are there cases of a black market emerging from the making and sale of these medicines that are only available with a vet's prescription and are there cases of the prices increasing?

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