Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 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)

Ms Louise Byrne:

In those circumstances the farmer is not obliged to register as a professional fertiliser end user. He will go to the merchant and buy the fertiliser, and the merchant in those circumstances is registered as a fertiliser economic operator and is obliged to submit returns to the Minister through the national fertiliser database. We will have information on those sales that are, in essence, outside of the jurisdiction.