Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

With the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023 going through, we have received a number of phone calls from vets, particularly during the week. They are worried that some of the big co-ops will hire their two or three vets and it will do away with veterinary practices. Have the witnesses any worries that if this happens, younger people will not go into the profession because a practice will not be viable if big co-ops-----