Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 March 2023

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The situation is that there is a legal obligation on everybody, no matter where they purchase their fertiliser. When the legislation is enacted, there will be a legal obligation on everybody to accurately record the fertiliser they have, whether they buy it in the North or in the South. If people do not have an accurate record of the fertiliser they have bought, that will be an offence, whether they bought in the North or in the South. Let us say that somebody is not registering what they bought in the North. That will be an offence in the same way as if it was not properly registered in the South.