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)

Photo of Tim LombardTim Lombard (Fine Gael)
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I would not consider GAA, soccer and rugby clubs commercial activities. They are a club run by a parish and a parish entity. That clarification would be helpful because whether they fit into this criteria is one of the issues that came up in the past few weeks, in particular with the new technologies agreed over the last decade about going over to sand-based pitches, rightly or wrongly.