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
Mr. Conor Geraghty:
All the prescriptions that are up there are for what we use during the spring. They are all antibiotics. The Department said that. If I were to go out to the Acting Chair's farm at 12 a.m. and say the cow is X, give him a prescription that he could get the next day in the pharmacy and which he would inject the cow with for the next three days, he would not be impressed. That is not the way it works. When the products the farmers want to buy in the merchants become on prescription, then come back and tell us the percentages, but at the moment, this is stuff they expect to you to have injected into the vein and leave them to tomorrow or the next day.
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