Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion

Mr. Ray Doyle:

Yes. There are good indigenous Irish industries that produce a lot of those generic products. They will be greatly disadvantaged if the availability of comparable products is not addressed on the NVPS.

Mr. Doyle spoke about the fertiliser moving over and back across the Border. Does the haulier not run a risk? I presume that hauliers will have a dispatch docket with every load or whatever they are doing and the source will be on it. I presume they run a risk if they are lifting fertiliser here and saying it came from the North. Would Mr. Doyle not agree?