Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, they will not do it. We have seen that if one doses for fluke and it is not there, it creates resistance. There is no point in saying it does not. Unless samples are being taken, however, we will not know whether the level of fluke is there. Mr. Corkery is telling us that the Department is going to hand a farmer access to all this instead of going down the route of him or her going to a responsible person with a milk sample and getting the product he or she needs, which can be proven from the milk sample. This will not achieve what we want it to achieve and it will create a monopoly as well. Ultimately, it will add significant extra cost for farmers.