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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The obligation is the same. A farmer must keep an accurate record of the fertiliser on his or her farm so he or she must ensure that it is registered and on the record. What will happen, where somebody purchases fertiliser in the Republic, is that the information will be uploaded primarily by the retailer from whom the farmer purchases the fertiliser. Obviously my Department has no legal...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: We have made the effort.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I do.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: There is nothing facetious. I am simply looking to establish what it is the Deputy is saying. We have been engaging with officials in the North. As recently as last week, we had an engagement. It would ultimately be desirable for the North to have a fertiliser register as well. Obviously, however, we can only bring in one for the Republic. We continue to engage. With regard to the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not agree with what the Deputy said.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: 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,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes, they would have to update the record themselves. That is the only way it could be done.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: What is the Deputy suggesting should happen?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: He saying there should be engagement. There has been engagement. Is he saying we should do nothing?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I will put it this way. No matter how much engagement there is, until there is a government in the North, it will not be possible to have a fertiliser register there. Is the Deputy saying we should not do a fertiliser at all until there is one in Northern Ireland? That does not make sense.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: So do I.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: What is the Deputy suggesting? Is he suggesting we do not do a database at all until there is one in the North?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: When might that possibly be?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I am a Minister in the Republic.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Does the Deputy think I can introduce legislation in Northern Ireland? We have engaged. Our officials have engaged with officials in Northern Ireland. There is no government in Northern Ireland at the moment. They have engaged.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Our officials have engaged.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Who does the Deputy suggest I meet at the moment?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: My officials-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: There is no Minister.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: What Deputy Carthy seems to be suggesting is that we do not do any fertiliser register at all until such time as there is one in Northern Ireland. I do not agree with that. Part of the reason we need the register is that we have made commitments relating to the nitrates regulation and the application of the derogation. We have made commitments to bring in a fertiliser register as part of...