Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme

Mr. Conor Geraghty:

We would see prescribing as something that requires a much broader training to include epidemiology, pharmacology, all the other disciplines within veterinary, knowledge of the farm and intimate knowledge of the animals and how animals, stocking rates and grazing management work. Our view would be that prescribing practice is an holistic approach the farmer and his or her vet would be able to know from regular contact.