Dr. Paul Corkery:

We meet the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, VMD, which is based in London and covers the North. We also meet officials from the North's Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, DAERA. We understand from them that changes are taking place in how they regulate medicines in the North. That is as much as I can say about that. Those bodies understand and have offered to make their suitably qualified persons, SQPs, aware of the fact that, for products that are prescription medicines down South, their SQPs cannot sell to farmers who present in the North without a prescription and that it is illegal for those farmers to use such products down here. As is the case in all EU member states where someone is allowed to move across the border, if a farmer in Donegal has a prescription, he or she can move across the Border if something there is closer. There is an exact provision for that.