Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Ms Muldoon said people can source the products in the same places but we all know that, even if the merchant has to wait five days to get it, the farmer cannot afford to wait five days. This cuts down the farmer's options, and he must then go to a vet.

He may have been using the merchant all his life, but now, with the new system and a five-day delay, it does not give him an option because he needs the medicine for his animals as soon as possible and not wait five days for it to come through on the e-prescriptions system.