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

Mr. Peter Collins:

The person can bring that message, email to wherever he or she wishes to go to get the prescription filled. The person walks in and hands in his or her ID number and the dispenser will be able to dispense the medicine. We are allowing what we call a main ID for this prescription, or it could be four lines of the prescription. If the person wants separate things dispensed in separate outlets or the person may want the antiparasitics dispensed only in the licensed merchants, he or she will be able to bring that prescription in with just that line ID to the licensed merchant, give the merchant the number and the merchant will be able to dispense it from there.