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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is Mr. Carroll in a position to estimate what the margin of error would be if this does not happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I agree that seeking an all-Ireland solution makes eminent sense. Notwithstanding the example Mr. Carroll gave, in my county a farmer's nearest merchant might be across the Border. I share his view that it is difficult to see how this will serve the purpose for which it is intended without having an all-Ireland dimension to it. Based on his interactions with the Department, does he believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is the ICOS position? Does it believe that this aspect of the legislation should not be enacted without that solution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: We are all united Irelanders tonight.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I appreciate that Teagasc has allowed us to take the statement as read. I do not know whether the representatives had been paying to the previous session. We ended on the need for essentially an all-island approach to both the NVPS and the fertiliser register. ICOS was here before us and it indicated that neither will work effectively if there are two distinct systems and operations in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I suppose the crux of the concerns we have relates to responsible persons and whether those who were previously designated as responsible persons within licensed merchants under the 2007 legislation should be able to continue to dispense these products. Does Teagasc have a position on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes, and antiparasitics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will come back to the legal issues. Dr. Keane mentioned a task force of which Teagasc was a part. What was that task force?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Was this a legal analysis the committee undertook?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Okay. I presume there has to be a legal basis for that analysis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Before moving on to that issue, Dr. Keane mentioned there have been recorded cases of antiparasitic resistance. Is there any recorded analysis that would link that to the responsible persons model within the licensed merchant sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: This is important from our perspective, because we have been talking about the fact there will be North-South divergence. I do not want to put words in Dr. Keane's mouth, but the model that is applied in the North can work so far as all the other things in relation to public information and scrutiny are actually robust enough. Would that be a fair comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Essentially, therefore, it goes back to the question of whether the responsible persons were actually prescribing as well as dispensing, which is where the derogation and the legal dispute comes in. The view from within the sector is that they absolutely were.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Department is stating categorically they were not. That is why the derogation could not be applied. I do not know if anyone here would be brave enough to indicate whether Teagasc has a view on whether they were or were not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: We are just trying to figure out where we can get an independent answer at all. That is our challenge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I wish to ask a final question. Perhaps others will go into it in more detail. It is a genuine concern I have in respect of animal welfare as a result of this being introduced. If a farmer does not have a long-standing prescription and encounters an issue, to resolve that issue he or she will have to go through a two-phase process. He or she will have to contact the vet and either...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does that not defeat the purpose in the sense that a vet has to prescribe, but he or she can issue a prescription that is valid for a full 12 months? Whatever value might have been placed on the fact that a vet would need to be on site and make a determination is undermined. By the way, I support the position that vets should be able to give a 12-month prescription. However, I just do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will touch briefly on the fertiliser register. Again, this is probably more pointed in terms of a North-South divergence. We will have a system whereby everybody in this State has to register fertiliser purchases but the merchants north of the Border, to use that term, will not be aligned to that system. There can be benign reasons for people making purchases in the North or wherever the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made in implementing the organisation review of An Bord Pleanála by the independent review group published in February 2016. [47346/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: It is not progressive when there are no alternatives.