Mr. Conor Geraghty:

Looking at the structure of veterinary practice, probably only one third or one quarter of veterinary practices actually retail this stuff. The rest of them are not doing it. There is every opportunity, using the national veterinary prescription system, NVPS, or this protocol, for merchants to develop a relationship with their local vet for farmers. My farmers are going in and out. When I go down to the merchants, my farmers are at the counter. They ask if that is what they need for their cattle. I talk them through it at the counter and they buy it off the merchant. There is no problem. My local merchant lives two doors down the road from me. This is the way local community-based businesses work. It is a matter of stopping all this rhetoric. It is down to local people getting on with local people in local communities and working it out.