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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 (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: As a matter of EU law, what was to stop Ireland having entered a derogation at the time? The HPRA's subsequent finding was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Essentially, a derogation could not have been entered into until the HPRA made its determination that there was a risk of antiparasitic resistance developing in animals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: How did the United Kingdom enter a derogation at that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: The United Kingdom is a country with greater resources than Ireland and its much larger mission in Brussels was reflective of those resources, until the time it decided it had such great resources that it would leave the European Union, which was its sovereign decision. Would it be fair to say, in general terms, that if the UK entered a derogation on any legislation, be it on justice or home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Have those prescriptions covered a duration of 12 months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: In the cases of all the prescriptions required for the antiparasitics, for which many were not required, the prescription was of 12 months' duration.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: The question is whether the veterinary prescriptions, which were issued for that number of years, were of 12 months' duration.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Is that Irish legislation as opposed to EU legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Is it then at the discretion of the veterinarian writing the prescription?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: As to whether we continue with a prescription of up to 12 months, which has the benefit of a certain degree of practicality, how does that compare to the practices in other European states in respect of antiparasitic prescriptions? We are told the plan is for antiparasitic prescriptions to be of 12 months' duration. How does that compare to the practice in other EU states?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Legally, that is true, but what is the practice? Usually, if laws are revised, they come to reflect practices. Will we move to a situation in which we have antiparasitic prescriptions of 12 months' duration now, but when legislation is revised, as is always the case, we will be looking at durations of a month or five days?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I suppose France is our nearest EU neighbour now. What do they do in Normandy and Brittany, which are similar to us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: As we have an open border with Northern Ireland, it is perfectly lawful for any general merchant in Northern Ireland to sell antiparasitics, which can be delivered to any farm here. Has it been considered that we might actually drive it underground and instead of having a greater control of and accountability around antiparasitics, we might end up with less? That is my last question. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: It is therefore illegal at the moment, if you have a prescription in Monaghan, to go across the Border and apply it in Fermanagh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Whether it is antimicrobials or antiparasitics, if you have a prescription from a vet in the South, can you go across the Border and buy it lawfully and bring it back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: But they will all be licensed here one way or the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Then they are not committing any offence by selling it to a farmer in Cork, Kerry, Clare or wherever without a prescription.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Has the Department-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Chairman.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: As a rural Deputy, I thank Deputy O'Reilly for her advice on how I should spend my time. Notwithstanding her advice, I wish to raise the ongoing controversy regarding Shannon Heritage sites. There is a difficulty at a national level in that they fall between a number of different Departments. It seems to me that the issue of what is going to happen to them is being shuttled between various...