Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme

Mr. Conor Geraghty:

We would hope so in the long term. It is not a quick fix. Once resistance is there, it takes quite a while to repopulate farms with worms that are susceptible to various families of drugs, and we have seen multi-drug resistant studies in Ireland. It occurs quite quickly because we availed of the derogation in 2007 because there was not enough reported resistance in Ireland. We have seen in the intervening years of 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and every day in practice, where animals are treated with a wormer, it does not work, they become clinically ill or there are losses due to subclinical disease or poor weight gains. It is not something that will turn around in 2023 or 2024-----

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