Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I think anyone would be delusional to think that if a vet is to give out a prescription, people would be running down the road to somewhere else because a farmer would nearly be embarrassed into getting the stuff. That needs to be called straight.

It is my understanding at the moment, and the witnesses may or may not comment on this, is that it is in double-digit figures. The Chair, in fairness to him, is bringing forward a Bill on the number of veterinary practices that are being scouted, sold to or are in the process of it, by companies from other countries. It is my understanding that when those businesses are being sold for the medicine side of it being looked into, which gives you more money to be quite frank about it. It makes it more valuable. Have the witnesses looked at an angle whereby part of a business is taken away to make a fair living? Has either group looked at anything like that?