Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Dr. Paul Corkery:

The difference is, as has been said throughout the parliamentary debates, that the professionals have fitness-to-practice procedures. A vet goes to college for five years. If a vet does something wrong or inappropriate with these medicines, a fitness-to-practice committee can be established and the vet can be struck off-----