Mr. Ray Doyle:

That is current sales of veterinary medicinal products, not prescriptions, but what the Deputy has just raised is a valid point. What we are proposing in terms of changes to the statutory instrument will maintain jobs in rural Ireland for our members but also for the veterinary practitioners because we have to pay for all of these prescriptions to be issued to sell what we currently retail without a prescription. We have no problem with that. In fact, we are actually endorsing the sanctity of a prescription being written by a veterinary practitioner. What we need is sales of vaccines to be able to dilute out the cost of the prescriptions and that is recycled back to the veterinary practices. Nobody is more invested, other than Veterinary Ireland itself, in keeping large animal veterinary practices alive than us. The vets keep the farmers we depend on as customers in business. We are all trying to stay in business here. That is the whole idea of our proposed amendments to it. We are all trying to survive. Nobody is trying to take advantage or to take a bit out of anyone else's mouth on this.