Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 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. Peter Collins:

I will first address the Deputy's query on the percentage of vets who are using written prescriptions. As I mentioned earlier to Deputy Carthy, there are 20 vets using the system on a pilot basis for us, and 100% of the scripts they are writing are going onto the national veterinary prescription system, NVPS. Those written scripts are dispensed prescriptions. There are no undispensed prescriptions on that system at all. They are using it in a capacity for us to get practical feedback on the practical application of the system. They give us information on what is good about it, what is working and what does not work. They are talking to farmers about it, asking how it works, and the farmers are getting the SMS texts or the prescriptions on those.

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