Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Terence O'Shea:

Yes. Basically, there are two parts to the proposal. Number one is that there would be more prudent and appropriate use of the products, and there would also be a national veterinary prescribing system that would record the usage of the products. That would record both who the retailer was and who the end user of the product was. If the product is moved in from Northern Ireland, it is an unrecorded movement of the product across the Border. Then, we have unrecorded usage. The image of Irish food internationally is that we are clean and green. However, we are clean and green because of our record keeping. The hard work farmers put into keeping records is exemplary.

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