Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion

2:00 am

Eileen Lynch (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Doyle touched on this, but having read the regulation that this statutory instrument implements, I wish to ask whether we are bordering on, or potentially in the field of, not being compliant with what the regulation sets out. I have a serious question as to whether the statutory instrument is properly implementing the EU regulation in terms of the spirit in which the regulation was drafted and what it was meant to do. It does not appear that the statutory instrument is doing what the regulation is meant to do.

Mr. Doyle mentioned that Merchants Alliance Ireland has been engaging with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, but perhaps not successfully. I appreciate that the Department says it is too late, but does Mr. Doyle think it is as simple as amending the statutory instrument? What is the best way to get this resolved?

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