Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 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 (Resumed)

Mr. Barry Larkin:

I will come in on that. Currently, a farmer can go to Northern Ireland and purchase whatever antiparasitic product he or she wants and there is no problem. He or she can bring that product back across the Border and there will be no regulations there. Potentially, a farmer may be in breach of his or her Bord Bia obligations or some other schemes by using that product, but if he or she does not record the use of that product, there is no problem.