Mr. Ray Doyle:

That is a question for the Department as to why it has not looked at that in this way. It is a fresh approach to the old question. It is almost like the American version of a survey - starting with the answer I want and giving the question afterwards to retrofit it. This may be the same thing. The answer is that we need the responsible persons to continue with the de facto prescribing they have been doing. The answer to that is as I have outlined. The only way this can happen is to retrospectively look at the 2007 regulation. The Deputy asked about the resistance to it. I do not know what that resistance is internally. I cannot answer on behalf of the Department what that might be. However, the lack of engagement by the veterinary profession on this may tell its own story.