Tim Lombard (Fine Gael)
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We are two hours into the debate and we have another hour to speak about fertiliser. The Department has explained where the process started and ended. The Chair has made a valuable point on whether it will work at the end of the day. There are all types of land and we have seen all sorts of weather this year. We have had unbelievable weather that I have never seen before. If this fails, which it could, what is plan B? Will we go down the line of having prescription only and dispensing only? Have we thought about what plan B will be? Plan A has been put in front of us and it is questionable, to say the very least. Obviously there is a plan B somewhere in case we do not meet the targets. Will we go down the dramatic road of removing dispensing completely from vets? Will we have it for another entity to deal with? I am very concerned that plan A, according to the Chair's analysis, might fail and plan B has not even been thought up.