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, they can. Again, the Department will defend that by pointing to the registration numbers and saying that a person will be in breach of his or her own medicines record by using products here that were licensed in another jurisdiction. However, it is different in essence and in practice. I just gave the example of ivermectin-based products for lungworms. There will be no issue with a farmer potentially buying these products in the North. He or she may be in breach of some other quality assurance by not registering that he or she has used them. However, the practicalities and realities of it are that a person can actually just go across the Border, buy a product and administer it.