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:

Not to my knowledge. We are discussing what we discussed earlier, which is the retrospective amending of the 2007 legislation which currently empowers the responsible person to be a de facto prescriber. The Department was made aware of that in the past year or two. I am unsure of the timeline. The question to be put to the Department is now being refined, as I alluded to earlier. We can only hope that the Department looks more positively on the same question.