Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion

Photo of Paul DalyPaul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Professor More, Ms McAloon and Ms Finola McCoy and I thank them for their very comprehensive submission. The only problem I had was that, as a layman, I struggled with many of the medical and technical terms. I had to read much of the detail a second time. The submission was based mainly on the antibiotic stewardship of the dairy industry. It related more to antimicrobial resistance than antibiotics. I ask for the Professor More's opinion on antiparasitic resistance since the directive we are considering proposes that antiparasitic veterinary medicines become prescription only. Where do we stand with antiparasitic resistance? What benefit would there be to us making antiparasitic veterinary medicines prescription only?

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