Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 5 is necessary to allow me to make regulations for dispensing of veterinary medicinal products in a research environment. Amendment No. 7 is necessary as the matter is deemed substantive. This provision continues the current practice of allowing a veterinarian not to provide a veterinary prescription for a companion animal if the owner of the animal agrees. The owner of such an animal may, of course, request a prescription and a prescription must be issued in such circumstances.

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