Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be very brief because the witnesses have had a long day. I thank them for their input on this Bill. We have now been over it a number of times. I believe we will ultimately arrive at a much better Bill thanks to the witnesses' input. There are still some tweaks and so on needed. We will reflect on the witnesses' input today.

I have one thing to share and to ask all of the groups about. When this comes in, there may be an opportunity to streamline the data. I know there are reservations about sharing data with the Department, Bord Bia and other agencies but, ultimately, we all have to embrace technology at some stage. Has anybody from the private sector approached the witnesses' organisations with online portals or propositions to safeguard everybody, including the farmer, the small retailer and the large retailer? Off the top of my head, there might be a system whereby a farmer was able to go to a central veterinary point online, get his prescription back via his local vet and then select where we wanted to buy the medication. Has anybody come to the organisations with a proposition like that?